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  • Annales, 3.72

    Tacitus
    Isdem diebus M. Lepidus ab senatu petivit ut basilicam Pauli, Aemilia monimenta, propria pecunia firmaret ornaretque.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Rome

  • In Verrem, 2.1.58 (22)

    Cicero
    Dices tua quoque signa et tabulas pictas ornamento urbi foroque populi Romani fuisse. Memini; vidi simul cum populo Romano forum comitiumque adornatum, ad speciem magnifico ornatu, ad sensum cogitationemque acerbo et lugubri

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century BCE
    Location: Rome

  • Res Gestae 16.10.17

    Ammianus Marcellinus
    multis igitur cum stupore visis horrendo imperator de fama querebatur ut invalida vel maligna, quod augens omnia semper in maius erga haec explicanda, quae Romae sunt, obsolescit, deliberans que diu, quid ageret, urbis addere statuit ornamentis, ut in proximo circo erigeret obeliscum, cuius originem formam que loco competenti monstrabo.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE

  • Relatio 3.5

    Quintus Aurelius Symmachus "Eusebius"
    Quodsi huius ominis non esset iusta vitatio, ornamentis saltem curiae decuit abstineri.

    Text Category: Literature: letter
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 384

  • De Spectaculis 8.10

    Tertullian
    singula ornamenta circi singula templa sunt.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 197-202

  • Life of Cimon 3.6

    Plutarch
    Αὑτοῦ γὰρ δαπάναισι θεῶν ναοὺς ἀγοράν τε Κεκροπίαν κόσμησ᾿ ἡμιθέων ἀρεταῖς.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Chaeronaea

  • Peloponnesian War 6.54.5

    Thucydides
    καὶ ἐπετήδευσαν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον δὴ τύραννοι οὗτοι ἀρετὴν καὶ ξύνεσιν, καὶ Ἀθηναίους εἰκοστὴν μόνον πρασσόμενοι τῶν γιγνομένων τήν τε πόλιν αὐτῶν καλῶς διεκόσμησαν καὶ τοὺς πολέμους διέφερον καὶ ἐς τὰ ἱερὰ ἔθυον.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 431-400
    Location: Athens

  • Critias 117a-b

    Plato
    ταῖς δὲ δὴ κρήναις, τῇ τοῦ ψυχροῦ καὶ τῇ τοῦ θερμοῦ νάματος, πλῆθος μὲν ἄφθονον ἐχούσαις, ἡδονῇ δὲ καὶ ἀρετῇ τῶν ὑδάτων πρὸς ἑκατέρου τὴν χρῆσιν θαυμαστοῦ πεφυκότος, ἐχρῶντο περιστήσαντες οἰκοδομήσεις καὶ δένδρων φυτεύσεις πρεπούσας ὕδασι, δεξαμενάς τε αὖ τὰς μὲν ὑπαιθρίους, τὰς δὲ χειμερινὰς τοῖς θερμοῖς λουτροῖς ὑποστέγους περιτιθέντες, χωρὶς μὲν βασιλικάς, χωρὶς δὲ ἰδιωτικάς, ἔτι δὲ γυναιξὶν ἄλλας καὶ ἑτέρας ἵπποις καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ὑποζυγίοις, τὸ πρόσφορον τῆς κοσμήσεως ἑκάστοις ἀπονέμοντες

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Date: 360

  • Historiae Romanae 62.5.6

    Cassius Dio
    καὶ τὸ θέατρον, οὐχ ὅτι ἡ σκηνὴ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ περιφέρεια αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἔνδοθεν ἐκεχρύσωτο, καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα ἐσῄει χρυσῷ ἐκεκόσμητο· ἀφ᾿ οὗ καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν αὐτὴν χρυσῆν ἐπωνόμασαν

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Location: Bithynia

  • Historiae Romanae 48.42.5

    Cassius Dio
    κατακαυθὲν γὰρ αὐτὸ ἀνῳκοδόμησε καὶ καθιέρωσεν, ἄλλοις τέ τισι λαμπρῶς κοσμήσας καὶ εἰκόσιν, ἃς παρὰ τοῦ Καίσαρος ὡς καὶ ἀποδώσων ᾐτήσατο

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Location: Bithynia

  • Hippias 8

    Lucian
    προσέτι τῇ ἄλλῃ περινοίᾳ κεκοσμημένον, ἀφόδων μὲν ἀναγκαίων δυσὶν ἀναχωρήσεσιν, ἐξόδοις δὲ πολλαῖς τεθυρωμένον, ὡρῶν δὲ διττὰς δηλώσεις, τὴν μὲν δι᾽ ὕδατος καὶ μυκήματος, τὴν δὲ δι᾽ ἡλίου ἐπιδεικνύμενον. ταῦτα ἰδόντα μὴ ἀποδοῦναι τὸν πρέποντα ἔπαινον τῷ ἔργῳ οὐκ ἀνοήτου μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀχαρίστου, μᾶλλον δὲ βασκάνου μοι εἶναι ἔδοξεν.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Athens

  • Hippias 5

    Lucian
    μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ἑκατέρωθεν διαρκεῖς τοῖς ' ἀποδυομένοις ἀποθέσεις, καὶ μέσος οἶκος ὕψει τε ὑψηλότατος καὶ φωτὶ φαιδρότατος, ψυχροῦ ὕδατος ἔχων τρεῖς κολυμβήθρας, Λακαίνῃ λίθῳ κεκοσμημένος, καὶ εἰκόνες ἐν αὐτῷ λίθου λευκοῦ τῆς ἀρχαίας ἐργασίας, ἡ μὲν Ὑγιείας, ἡ δὲ Ἀσκληπιοῦ.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Athens

  • Caesar 66.1

    Plutarch
    ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν ἤδη που φέρει καὶ τὸ αὐτόματον: ὁ δὲ δεξάμενος τὸν φόνον ἐκεῖνον καὶ τὸν ἀγῶνα χῶρος, εἰς ὃν ἡ σύγκλητος ἠθροίσθη τότε, Πομπηΐου μὲν εἰκόνα κειμένην ἔχων, Πομπηΐου δὲ ἀνάθημα γεγονὼς τῶν προσκεκοσμημένων τῷ θεάτρῳ, παντάπασιν ἀπέφαινε δαίμονός τινος ὑφηγουμένου καὶ καλοῦντος ἐκεῖ τὴν πρᾶξιν ἔργον γεγονέναι

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Chaeronea

  • CIL 10, 00805 (p 967, 1006)

    Unknown
    [Imp(eratori) Ca]esa[ri divi] f(ilio) Aug(usto) pon[t(ifici) max(imo)] / [imp(eratori) 3]I co(n)s(uli) [3] trib(unicia) potest(ate) X[3] / [3]s soc(iorum) l(iberto) [Aga]tho Phi[3] / [3]s Diogene[s] D(ecimus) Capr[asius 3] / [c]um suis orn(amentis) d(e) s(ua) p(ecunia) f(ecerunt) idemq(ue) [

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
    Location: Campania: Pompeii

  • CIL 08, 18277

    Unknown
    ]V[3] / [3]A[3]FIX[3] / [le]g(atus) Aug(usti) p[ro pr(aetore) 3] / a fundamentis c[um omnibus ornamentis(?) re]stituerunt cu[rante // ]pcia VA[3] / [3]MIV[3] / [3]VI per s[3] / [3]G SI[

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Numidia: Lambaesis

  • ZPE-153-252 = AE 2005, 01696

    Unknown
    D(is) M(anibus) / Publicius / Heracla / v(ixit) a(nnos) LXXXXV / h(ic) s(itus) e(st) // D(is) M(anibus) / Publicia / Vitalis / marita / rarissima / v(ixit) a(nnos) / XXXXIII / h(ic) s(ita) e(st) // Salvis dd(ominis) nn(ostris) / Honorio et Theodosio / p(er)p(etuis) semper Augustis / Caesius Aufidianus / Polybius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(rimi) o(rdinis) c(omes) agens / vicariam praef(ecturam) praet(orio) / curia(m) ornavit

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 5th century CE
    Date: 407-408
    Location: Numidia: Cirta

  • SupIt-10-H, 00007 = AE 1985, 00413 = AE 1990, 00356

    Unknown
    Collegium / dendrophor(orum) / d(e) p(ecunia) s(ua) schol(am) exorn(avit) / M(arcus) Septimius Argus / locum dedit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Liguria: Hasta

  • Ordona-02, 00054 = AE 1982, 00214

    Unknown
    Augustal[es] / exornav[erunt] / d(ecreto) [d(ecurionum)]

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
    Date: Augustan period
    Location: Apulia et Calabria:Herdonia

  • IRT 00601b = IRT-S, 00024

    Unknown
    [Q]uod expostulantibus universis decurio/nibus uti Plautio Lupo o(ptimo) o(rdinis) n(ostri) vir(o) biga de pub(lico) / collocetur q(uid) d(e) e(a) r(e) f(ieri) p(laceret) c(ensentis) L(uci) Cassi Longini II/vir(i) desig(nati) q(uid) p(laceret) c(irca) i(d) f(ieri) dec(uriones) i(ta) c(ensuerunt) cum Plautius Lupus / o(ptimus) o(rdinis) n(ostri) vir cum flamonium consensu / omnium sibi delatum libenter suscepis/set opulentissimos ludos ediderit sing/u(lariter)q(ue) magnificentissima liberalitate pro/meruerit in IIviratus quoq(ue) honore om/nia secundum splendorem natalium / [s]uorum dignitatemq(ue) col(oniae) n(ostrae) egerit et / [e]ffusissimis adfectibus iterum splen/didissimos ludos ediderit nec contentus / his liberalitatibus cellam thermar(um) / marmorib(us) Numidicis et opere musaeo ex/ornaverit omni deinde occasione singul(ariter) / [p]romeruerit et proxime cum ad munus publ(icum) / [e]x t(estamento) Iuni Afri c(larissimae) m(emoriae) viri edendum curator e/le[c]tus esset sollicitudini laboriq(ue) suo non pe/percerit et observata amplissimi senatus / voluntate splendidissime munus edi curaveri[t] / debentque huiusmodi adfectus / remunerari ut reliqui quoque ad eamdem volup/[tat]em sollicitari possint placere Plautio Lupo / o(ptimo) o(rdinis) n(ostri) v(iro) [bi]gam de publ(ico) ubi volet collocari pos/[t Plau]tius Lupus de suo collocaturum se dixit

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Location: Africa Proconsularis: Lepcis Magna

  • ILCV 01859 = AE 1894, 00025 = AE 1894, 00138

    Unknown
    [3] ba[silicam(?)] no[vam(?)] / Venusianenses / initiaverunt / [M]ucrionenses(?) / columnas V de/derunt Cuzabe/tenses dede/runt colum/nas VI omnes / apsida(s) stra/verunt plus / Cuzabete(n)ses / ornaverunt Ro/gatus presb<y=I>ter / et (A)emilius <di=Z>acon(us) / (a)edificaverunt

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Numidia: Ares

  • ILAlg-02-03, 07885 = AE 1913, 00035

    Unknown
    [Beatissimis temporibus et florentissi]mo s(a)eculo / [ddd(ominorum) nnn(ostrorum) Valentiniani et Valentis semper Augg(ustorum)] basilicam / [3 a patre di]spositam ad/[que in]struc[tam 3]m ex/orn[a]vit M[3]ve dedi/cavi[t 3 Caecina Dec]ius / Alb[inus Iunior v(ir) c(larissimus) consularis sexfascalis provinciae Numidiae Constantinae] / c[urante

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 364-375
    Location: Numidia: Cuicul

  • ILAlg-02-03, 07876 = AE 1946, 00107 = AE 1946, 00111

    Unknown
    Pro beat[itudine] ac felicitat[e temporum] / [d]ominor[um n]ostrorum V[alentiniani] / [et V]alent[is s]emper Augusto[rum basilicam] / [dignam c]oloniae Cuicu[li]tana[e egestis] / [ruderibus qua]e ipsis iam a[ltio]ra es[sent] / [culminibus civitatis a] funda[m]entis / [construx]it exornavit dedicavitqu[e] / [Publ]ilius [Cei]onius C(a)ecina Albinu[s] vir cla/[rissi]mus consularis sexfascalis pro/[vinc]i(a)e Numidi(a)e curantibus C(a)ecili[o] Patri/[cio cur(atore)] r(ei) p(ublicae) cum Tul(l)io Pr(a)esta[n]tio ff(lamine) p(er)p(etuo) Pompon[i]o Pu/[dentian]o ff(lamine) p(er)p(etuo) Domitio Rustic[o 3]io Faustiniano dd(uum)v(iris?)

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 364-375
    Location: Numidia: Cuicul

  • ILAlg-02-01, 02106

    Unknown
    e]x HS II(milibus) n(ummum) facturum se promiserat s(ua) p(ecunia) ex HS V(milibus) a solo exstr[uxit] / sui exornavit idemq(ue) dedicavit super diem ludorum quo A[

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Numidia: Celtianis

  • IDR-03-02, 00004 = FVSarmiz 00040 = AE 1977, 00667 = AE 1982, 00831 = AE 2006, 01154

    Unknown
    ] / August[alis col(oniae) D]ac(icae) Sarm(izegetusae) / aed[em] ope[re tect]orio et pic/turis item sca[lis sigi]llis et linteis / exornavit it[em can]delabra ae/rea duo colleg[io dedit dedicavit]q[ue]

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 161-192
    Location: Dacia: Sarmizegetusa

  • Euergetismo-Urb, 00003 = AE 1993, 00594

    Unknown
    C(aius) Salvi[us C(ai) f(ilius) Vel(ina) Liberal]is [3 et] C(aius) Sa[lvius C(ai) f(ilius) Vel(ina)] / Vitellia[nus 3 theat]r[um quod] ante s[ua pecunia reficiend(um)] / [curaverunt 3 colum]nis mar[moreis 3] / [3 sta]tuis [3 exornave]runt por[ticum 3] / [adiecerun]t [3 data insupe]r pecunia [3]

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: 80-89
    Location: Picenum: Urbis Salvia