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• Hexameron 3.13.53

  Ambrose

  trabes domorum nostrarum caedri, lacunaria nostra cypressi, in volantes esse declarans decora sui ornamenta fastigii, qui quasi trabes verticem ecclesiae sua virtute sustineant et fastigium [*] eius exornent.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Vita decem oratorum 11

  Plutarch

  ἔτι δὲ αἱρεθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου χρήματα πολλὰ συνήγαγεν εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, καὶ παρασκευάσας τῇ θεῷ κόσμον, Νίκας τε ὁλοχρύσους πομπεῖά τε χρυσᾶ καὶ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ κόσμον χρυσοῦν εἰς ἑκατὸν κανηφόρους χειροτονηθεὶς δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ πολέμου παρασκευῆς ὅπλα μὲν πολλὰ καὶ βελῶν μυριάδας πέντε ἀνήνεγκεν εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, τετρακοσίας δὲ τριήρεις πλωΐμους κατεσκεύασε, τὰς μὲν ἐπισκευάσας τὰς δὲ ἐξ ἀρχῆς ναυπηγησάμενος

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Chaeronea

• CIL 14, 00244 (p 481, 773) [Ces] = CIL 14, 00245 [Fad, Fas] = CIL 14, 04531 [A] = CIL 14, 04532 [Ba] = CIL 14, 04532a [Bb] = CIL 14, 04533 [Cbd, Cbs] = CIL 14, 04534 [Ces] = CIL 14, 04535 [Ch] = CIL 14, 04536 [Fad, Fas] = CIL 14, 04537 [Ga] = CIL 14, 04538 [Gbc] = CIL 14, 04539 [Hc] = CIL 14, 04540 [Qb] = CIL 14, 04541 [Pc] = CIL 14, 04542 = CIL 14, 04543 [J] = CIL 14, 04544 = CIL 14, 04545 [Gf] = CIL 14, 04546 = CIL 14, 05354 [Ebcd] = CIL 14, 05355 [Zz] = EE-09, p 335 = D 06126 = InscrIt-13-01, 00005 (p 572) = FastiOstienses = RICIS-02, 00503/1102 = EAOR-04, 00007 = EAOR-04, 00008 = EAOR-04, 00009 = EAOR-04, 00010 = EAOR-04, 00011 = EAOR-04, 00012 = EAOR-04, 00013 = EAOR-04, 00015 = EAOR-04, 00016 = EAOR-04, 00017 = EAOR-04, 00018 = ELOstia p 83 = ELOstia p 123 = ELOstia p 181 = ELOstia p 213 = SdOstia-11, 00045 = Engfer-2017, 00084 = Engfer-2017, 00085 = IDRE-01, 00094 = IDRE-01, 00095 = AE 1917/18, 00122 [Ch] = AE 1922, 00094 [A] = AE 1924, 00111 [Ba, Bb] = AE 1928, 00126 = AE 1933, 00030 = AE 1936, 00097 [Kb] = AE 1936, 00098 [Pa] = AE 1936, 00099 [Qa] = AE 1937, 00010 [Gbc] = AE 1938, 00150 = AE 1939, 00052 = AE 1940, 00092 [Fad, Fbs] = AE 1940, 00093 [Fj] = AE 1945, 00033 [Cds, Cdd] = AE 1945, 00034 [Ha] = AE 1945, 00035 [Hb] = AE 1945, 00036 [Ma, Mc] = AE 1945, 00037 [S] = AE 1946, 00169 [Cas, Cad] = AE 1946, 00204 [Pb] = AE 1949, +00023 = AE 1949, 00064 = AE 1950, +00187 = AE 1954, 00123 = AE 1954, 00220 [Fh] = AE 1954, 00221 [Fbd] = AE 1954, 00222 [Fl] = AE 1954, 00223 [Gd] = AE 1955, +00120 = AE 1956, 00032 = AE 1956, 00132 = AE 1968, 00006 = AE 1975, 00130 = AE 1975, 00131 = AE 1975, 00132 = AE 1978, 00060 = AE 1978, 00061 = AE 1978, 00062 [Oa-e] = AE 1980, 00183 = AE 1994, 00330 = Fora-1996, 00001 (zum Jahr 152) = AE 1997, 00256 = AE 1998, +00408 = AE 2001, 00620 = FTD-06, p 336 = REMA-2004-107 = AE 2005, 00305 = AE 2016, +00190 = ZPE-217-210 (zum Jahr 102)

  Unknown

  Imp(erator) Traianus reliqua paria / [3]ae edere coepit qui dies vindemi/[alis nominatus] XI K(alendas) Sept(embres) aedis Volkani vetustate corrupta / [restituta or]nato opere dedicata est /

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Date: 112

  Location: Latium: Ostia: Theatre

• AE 1968, 00586 = IMustis 00002

  Unknown

  Aescula[pio Au]g(usto) sacrum pro salute / [Imp(eratoris) C]aes(aris) Traiani Hadriani Part(hici) Aug(usti) p(atris) p(atriae) C(aius) Iulius M(arci) f(ilius) Cor(nelia) Placidus ob [honor(em) flam(onii)] / [perp(etui)] cum HS X(milia) in opus munificentiae promisisset et ob honor(em) IIvir(atus) HS II(milia) ad[iecta a se] / [ampl]ius pecunia templum cum statuis III marmoribus picturis exornavit [item ad] / [or]namentum templi Plutonis urceum et lancem ex arg(enti) p(ondo) VI fecit idemq(ue) ded(icavit) [d(ecreto) d(ecurionum)]

  Text Category: Inscription: dedication

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Africa Proconsularis: Mustis

• Cicero

  Rome

  Latin

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

• Epitoma historiarum Philippicarum Pompei Trogi 20.4.10-12

  Justin

  Inter haec velut genetricem virtutum frugalitatem omnibus ingerebat consecutus quedisputationum adsiduitate erat, ut matronae auratas vestes cetera que dignitatis suae ornamenta velut instrumenta luxuriae deponerent ea que omnia delata in Iunonis aedem ipsi deaeconsecrarent, prae se ferentes vera ornamenta matronarum pudicitiam, non vestes esse.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

• Ephemeris belli Troiani in lat. versa atqueretractata 5.2

  Dictys Cretensis sec. translationem L. Septimii

  templorum etiam, si necesse erit, ornamentis pro incolumitate patriae utendum est.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Ephemeris belli Troiani in lat. versa atqueretractata 2.28

  Dictys Cretensis sec. translationem L. Septimii

  Per idem tempus Chryses, quem sacerdotem Zminthii Apollinis supra docuimus, cognito filiam suam Astynomen cum Agamemnone degere, fretus religione tanti numinis ad naves venit, praeferens dei vultus ac quaedam ornamentorum templi eius, quo facilius recordatione praesentis numinis veneratio sui regibus incuteretur.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Origenis in Canticum Canticorum homiliae 1.6

  Hieronymus, translating from the original by Origen

  'Nigra sum' ergo 'ut tabernacula Cedar', ut Aethiopes, ut tentoria Aethiopica, 'speciosa ut pellesSolomonis', quas eo tempore in tabernaculi ornamenta composuit, quando templum summostudio et labore fabricatus est.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 5th century CE

• Commentarii in IV epistulas Paulinas (Ad Galatas) 2.4.27

  Hieronymus

  sed postquam accepit illa librum repudii in manus suas, et omnia ornamenta viri in idoli vertitornamentum

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 5th century CE

• Contra Parmenianum Donatistam 3.3

  Optatus of Milevis

  Miserat enim ornamenta domibus Dei, miseratpauperibus eleemosynam, nihil Donato.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Epistulae 18

  Ambrose

  Sed vetera, inquit, reddenda sunt altaria simulacris, ornamenta delubris

  Text Category: Literature: letter

  Century Range: 4th century CE

  Date: 384

• Hexameron 3.13.53

  Ambrose

  laurus et palma insigne victoriae: lauro victorum capita coronantur, palma manus victricis ornatus est.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Diversarum hereseon liber 117.15

  Filiastrius Brixiensis

  Nam in templo mulieres et virgines operabantur purpuram et byssum et linum et alia utensilia adhonorem templi atque cooperimentum, pariter etiam ornamenta templi diversa et varia.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• De errore profanarum religionum 28.6

  Firmicus Maternus

  Tollite, tollite securi, sacratissimi imperatores, ornamenta templorum.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• Divinae Institutiones 2.4

  Lactantius

  nonne omnem Siciliam compilavit sublatis deorum simulacris ornamentisque fanorum?

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

  Date: 303-311

• On Idolatry 8.1-3

  Tertullian

  Nec enim differt, an extruas vel exornes, si templum, si aram, si aediculam eius instruxeris, si bratteam expresseris aut insignia aut etiam domum fabricaveris. Maior est eiusmodi opera, quae non effigiem confert, sed auctoritatem. Si ita necessitas exhibitionis extenditur, habent et alias species, quae sine exorbitatione disciplinae id est sine idoli confictura opem victus praestent. Scit albarius tector et tecta sarcire et tectoria inducere et cisternam liare et cymatia distendere et multa alia ornamenta ||f110 praeter simulacra parietibus incrispare. Scit et pictor et marmorarius et aerarius et quicumque caelator latitudines suas et utique multo faciliores.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

• Against Marcion 22.4

  Tertullian

  Sic et cherubin et seraphin aurea in arcae figuratum exemplum; certe simplex ornamentum.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

• Fragment 1 line 2

  Melanthius

  αὑτοῦ γὰρ δαπάναισι θεῶν ναοὺς ἀγοράν τεΚεκροπίαν κόσμησ᾽ ἡμιθέων ἀρεταῖς.

  Text Category: Literature: poetry

  Century Range: 5th century BCE

• History Fragment 150b line 2

  Timaeus

  Τὸν δὲ νεὼν τῆς Ἀρτέμιδος πρῶτος μὲν Χερσίφρων ἠρχιτεκτόνησεν, εἶτ΄ ἄλλος ἐποίησε μείζω• ὡς δὲ τοῦτον Ἡρόστρατός τις ἐνέπρησεν, ἄλλον ἀμείνω κατεσκεύασαν συνενέγκαντες τὸν τῶν γυναικῶν κόσμον καὶ τὰς ἰδίας οὐσίας, διαθέμενοι δὲ καὶ τοὺς προτέρους κίονας

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 7 line 15

  Hecataeus of Abdera

  ὑπάρχειν δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὴν νῆσον τέμενός τε Ἀπόλλωνος μεγαλοπρεπὲς καὶ ναὸν ἀξιόλογον ἀναθήμασι πολλοῖς κεκοσμημένον, σφαιροειδῆ τῷ σχήματι.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 970

  Hecataeus of Abdera

  κατεστρέψατο δὲ καὶ τὰς ἐν Κύπρῳ πόλεις καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἱερῶν ἐκόσμησεν ἀναθήμασιν ἀξιολόγοις

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 645

  Hecataeus of Abdera

  καὶ τὰ μὲν ἱερὰ πάντα τὰ κατ᾽ Αἴγυπτον ἀναθήμασιν ἀξιολόγοις καὶ σκύλοις ἐκόσμησε, τῶν δὲ στρατιωτῶν τοὺς ἀνδραγαθήσαντας δωρεαῖς κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν ἐτίμησε.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Hist. et. Astrol. Fragment 14b line 30

  Berosus

  αὐτὸς δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ πολέμου λαφύρων τό τε Βήλου ἱερὸν καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ κοσμήσας φιλοτίμως

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 3rd century BCE

• Leukadia, Fragment 686 line 1

  Menander

  <ὑπ>εδεξάμην, ἔτικτον, ἐκτρέφω, φιλῶ.<ἡ> ζάκορος ἡ κοσμοῦσα τὸν ναόν, τέκνον.

  Text Category: Literature: poetry

  Century Range: 4th century BCE