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  • De legibus, 2.65 (26)

    Cicero
    … “ne quis sepulchrum faceret operosius quam quod decem homines effecerint triduo”; neque id opere tectorio exornari

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

  • De definitionibus

    Marius Victorinus
    Ergo, uti diximus, violatio sepulturae constat et animo et facto, plena que ipsa res est violati sepulchri

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

  • Orations 32.22

    Aelius Aristides
    ἀνθ᾽ ὧν δικαίως τόν τε τάφον κοσμεῖτε καὶ ὡς ἀρχηγέτην καὶ οἰκιστὴν τιμᾶτε τοῖς πᾶσι τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ ψηφίζεσθε, ἃ τοῖς πρώτοις κτίσασι τὴν πόλιν ὑμῶν.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 150
    Location: Cotiaeum

  • Electra 1400-1401

    Sophocles
    ἡ μὲν ἐς τάφον λέβητα κοσμεῖ, τὼ δ’ ἐφέστατον πέλας.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 420-414
    Location: Athens

  • Memorabilia 2.2.13

    Xenophon
    καὶ νὴ Δία ἐάν τις τῶν γονέων τελευτησάντων τοὺς τάφους μὴ κοσμῇ, καὶ τοῦτο ἐξετάζει ἡ πόλις ἐν ταῖς τῶν ἀρχόντων δοκιμασίαις

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Date: 371

  • Iphigenia in Tauris 632-635

    Euripides
    πολύν τε γάρ σοι κόσμον ἐνθήσω τάφῳ, ξανθῷ τ᾽ ἐλαίῳ σῶμα σὸν κατασβέσω, καὶ τῆς ὀρείας ἀνθεμόρρυτον γάνος ξουθῆς μελίσσης ἐς πυρὰν βαλῶ σέθεν.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 414-412
    Location: Athens

  • Helen 1067-1068

    Euripides
    τοῦτ᾽ αὖ κατορθοῖς: εἶτ᾽ ἐγὼ συμπλεύσομαι καὶ συγκαθήσω κόσμον ἐν ταὐτῷ σκάφει.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 412
    Location: Athens

  • Helen 1061-1062

    Euripides
    δοῦναι κελεύσω πορθμίδ᾽, ᾗ καθήσομαι κόσμον τάφῳ σῷ πελαγίους ἐς ἀγκάλας.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 412
    Location: Athens

  • Orestes 607-611

    Euripides
    ἐπεὶ θρασύνῃ κοὐχ ὑποστέλλῃ λόγῳ, οὕτω δ᾽ ἀμείβῃ μ᾽ ὥστε μ᾽ ἀλγῆσαι φρένα, μᾶλλόν μ᾽ ἀνάξεις ἐπὶ σὸν ἐξελθεῖν φόνον: καλὸν πάρεργον δ᾽ αὐτὸ θήσομαι πόνων ὧν εἵνεκ᾽ ἦλθον θυγατρὶ κοσμήσων τάφον.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 408
    Location: Athens

  • Helen 1414

    Euripides
    οὔκουν ὅδ᾽ ἄρξει ναὸς ὃς κοσμεῖ τάφον;

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 412
    Location: Athens

  • Oration 1.16.C-D

    Julian
    Γενόμενος δὲ ἐφ᾿ ἡλικίας, καὶ τῷ πατρὶ τὴν εἱμαρμένην τελευτὴν τοῦ δαίμονος μάλα ὀλβίαν παρασχόντος, οὐ μόνον τῷ πλήθει καὶ κάλλει τῶν ἐπενεχθέντων τὸν τάφον ἐκόσμεις, γενέσεως καὶ τροφῆς ἀποτίνων τὰ χαριστήρια, πολὺ δὲ πλέον τῷ μόνος ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐκείνου παίδων ζῶντος μὲν ἔτι καὶ πιεζομένου τῇ νόσῳ πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁρμῆσαι, τελευτήσαντος δὲ τὰς μεγίστας τιμὰς καταστῆσαι, ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐξαρκεῖ καὶ τὸ μνησθῆναι.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 356-357

  • Deipnosophistae 13.67

    Athenaeus
    ὃ καὶ πάντες ἐθαύμαζον, ὅτι τῶν μὲν ἐν Κιλικίᾳ τελευτησάντων ὑπὲρ τῆς σῆς βασιλείας καὶ τῆς τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐλευθερίας οὐδέπω νῦν οὔτε ἐκεῖνος οὔτ᾽ ἄλλος οὐδεὶς τῶν ἐπιστατῶν κεκόσμηκε τὸν τάφον, Πυθιονίκης δὲ τῆς ἑταίρας φανήσεται τὸ μὲν Ἀθήνησιν, τὸ δ᾽ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι μνῆμα πολὺν ἤδη χρόνον ἐπιτετελεσμένον.

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

  • Alexander 72.3

    Plutarch
    τύμβον δὲ καὶ ταφὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν περὶ ταῦτα κόσμον ἀπὸ μυρίων ταλάντων ἐπιτελέσαι διανοούμενος, ὑπερβαλέσθαι δὲ τῷ φιλοτέχνῳ καὶ περιττῷ τῆς κατασκευῆς τὴν δαπάνην, ἐπόθησε μάλιστα τῶν τεχνιτῶν Στασικράτην, μεγαλουργίαν τινὰ καὶ τόλμαν καὶ κόμπον ἐν ταῖς καινοτομίαις ἐπαγ γελλόμενον.

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

  • ICUR-02, 06016 = ILCV 01982 = CLE 00671

    Unknown
    O semel atque iterum vero de nomine Felix / qui intemerata fide contempto principe mundi / confessus Christum caelestia regna petisti / o vere pretiosa fides cognoscite fratris / qua ad caelum victor pariter properavit Adauctus / presbyter his Verus Damaso rectore iubente / composuit tumulum sanctorum limina adornans / Felix et Adauctus

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 366-384
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-02, 04148

    Unknown
    Huius apostolici primum est hic corpus humatum / quod foret et tumulo dignus in arce Petri / hinc vatum procerumque cohors quos cernis adesse / membra sub egregia sunt adoperta domo / sed dudum ut pastor magnus Leo s(a)epta gregemque / chisticolam servans ianitor arcis erat / commonet e tumulo quod gesserat ipse superstes / insidians ne lupus vastet olive dei / testantur missi pro recto dogmate libri / quos pia corda colunt quos prava turba timet / rugiit et pavida stupuerunt corda ferarum / pastorisque sui iussa sequuntur oves / hic tamen extremo iacuit sub marmore templi / quem iam pontificum plura sepulchra celant / Sergius antistes divino impulsus amore / hunc in fronte sacrae transtulit inde domus / exornans rutilum pretiosoa tumbum / in quo poscentes mira superna vident / et quia praemicuit miris virtutibus olim / ultima pontificis gloria maior erit / sedit in episcopatu annos XXI mensem I dies XIII depositus est III Idus [Nov(embres)] / et iterum translatus huc a beato papa Sergio III Kal(endas) Iul(ias) indictione I

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 7th century CE
    Date: 688
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-02, 04106 = ILCV 00983

    Pope Damasus I
    Mart<y=I>ribus sanctis Proto pariterque Hiacyntho / Simmachus hoc parvo <v=B>eneratus honore patronos / exornabit opus sub quo pia corpora rursus / condidit his aevo laus sit perennis in omni

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 390-424
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ILAlg-01, 02243 = CLE 02268

    Unknown
    CVNIC[3] / Iuliu[s 3] / MERIDIA[3]MAXI[3] / ETAGAN[3]NS[3] / E[3]EVO[3]AVISV[3] / INCI[3]S[3] / [3]ATAVP[3]AFR[3]INV[3] / IM cum [3] ann[i]s vixeri[t] / dignus CI[3] patiens[q(ue)] / [lab]oris industrius liber[alis] / et quaerere felix ADOI[3] / [3]N con(i)uge sanctus NO[3] / [3]AII orn[a]vit omn[i] RE[3] / uxor cara tib[i] tumulum [3] / sanctamq(ue) cineris serv[

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Location: Africa Proconsularis: Madauros

  • ICUR-10, 26673 = ILCV +01985

    Unknown
    [Sepulchrum sanc]ti m[artyris] / [Yacinthi Leopardus pr(es)b(yter) ornavit] / [depos(itus) III Id(us) Sep(tembres)]

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 384-401
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-09, 23754c = ICUR-04, 09369 = AE 2007, +00205

    Unknown
    Martyris hic Mauri tumulus pia membra retentat / quem Damasus rector longo post tempore plebis / ornavit supplex cultu meliore decorans / insontem puerum qui poena nulla deiectus

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 366-384
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-09, 23751

    Unknown
    Sanctorum quicumq(ue) legis venerare sepulcrum / nomina nec numerum potuit retinere vetustas / ornavit Damasus tumulum cognoscite rector / pro reditu cleri Christo pr(a)estante triumphans / martyribus sanctis reddit sua vota sacerdos

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 366-384
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-08, 22959 = ILCV +00172 = ILCV +01989

    Unknown
    Sanctorum / ornavit // Iunia Sabina / c(larissima) f(emina) eius / fecerunt // [

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-08, 20758 = ILCV 01769b

    Unknown
    [Mar]tyre Agneti potitus ser<v=B>us dei ornavit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: last quarter
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-06, 15762

    Unknown
    Haec quicumque vides nimio perfecta labore / desine mirari minus est quam martyr habetur / hic aetate puer rudibus iam victor in annis / tempore sub pauco matura laude triumphans / aspera innocuo maculavit tela cruore / et sitiens tenero suxit sibi sanguine(m) praedo / sic victor superas auras regumque petivit / et nos caelesti placidus de sede revisit / nomine Gordianus Christi quem palma coronat / marmore concludens arcam cineresque beatos / presbyter ornavit renovans Vincentius ultro

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: final quarter
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-02, 04749 = ILCV 02907

    Unknown
    Bene merenti Elio Olimpio quiescet in pace obitum fecit / die III Kal(en)d(as) Iulias depositus die Kal(en)d(is) s(upra) s(cripto) cons(ulibus) Antonio / et S<y=>agrio vv(iris) cc(larissimis) cons(ulibus) / itemque bene merenti fili(a)e Eli(a)e Malloni(a)e quiescet / in pace obitum fecit die VIIII Kal(en)d(a)s Decembres deposita / die Kal(en)d(i)s s(upra) s(cripto) cons(ulibus) dd(ominis) nn(ostris) Arcadio III et Honorio II AAuu[gg(ustis)] / cons(ulibus) locum a fundamentibus marmore ab im[o] / adornavit socero et coniugi su(a)e Victor

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 394
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICERV 00256 = ILCV +03539 = SEBarc-05, p 54 = HEp-13, 00350 = AE 1977, 00473 = AE 1996, 00834 = AE 2004, 00794

    Unknown
    Freia[3] / dulci[ssi]/mo fi[lio bene] / mere[nti] / [3] sep[ulc]/rum ad[orn]/avit

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Location: Hispania Citerior: Coscojuela de Fantova