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  • Antiquities of the Jews 15.364

    Flavius Josephus
    σπήλαιον ἐν ὄρει περικαλλές ἐστιν, ὑπ᾽ αὐτὸ δὲ γῆς ὀλίσθημα καὶ βάθος ἀπερρωγὸς ἄβατον ὕδατος ἀκινήτου πλέον, καθύπερθε δ᾽ ὄρος παμμέγεθες, ὑπὸ δὲ τὸ σπήλαιον ἀνατέλλουσιν αἱ πηγαὶ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου ποταμοῦ. τοῦτον ἐπισημότατον ὄντα τὸν τόπον καὶ τῷ ναῷ προσεκόσμησεν, ὃν ἀφιέρου Καίσαρι.

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

  • Antiquities of the Jews 1.31

    Flavius Josephus
    τῇ τετάρτῃ δὲ διακοσμεῖ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἡλίῳ καὶ σελήνῃ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἄστροις κινήσεις αὐτοῖς ἐπιστείλας καὶ δρόμους, οἷς ἂν αἱ τῶν ὡρῶν περιφοραὶ σημαίνοιντο

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

  • Didyma 564

    Unknown
    κόσμον γὰρ αὐτῇ ξεστὸν ἀμφιθεὶς τόσον τοῦ μὲν θεοῦ τὸ δῶρον εἰς μνήμην ἄγει, ἀστοὺς δὲ νυμφείοισι διασῴζει ῥοαῖς, κοινωνίαν μειμούμενους τὴν Δελφικὴν πρὸς Κασταλίαν.

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Date: 287-293
    Location: Ionia: Didyma

  • Epigrammata, 3.19.1-2

    Martial
    Proxima centenis ostenditur ursa columnis,/ exornant fictae qua platanona ferae.

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

  • Epistulae, 2.17.27

    Pliny the Younger
    Litus ornant varietate gratissima nunc continua nunc intermissa tecta villarum ...

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

  • Medea, 486

    Seneca the Younger
    ex opibus illis, quas procul raptas Scythae/ usque a perustis Indiae populis agunt,/ quas quia referta vix domus gazas capit,/ ornamus auro nemora, nil exul tuli/ ...

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

  • Historiae Romanae, 2.81.2

    Velleius Paterculus
    et aqua promissa, quae hodieque singulare et salubritatis instrumentum et amoenitatis ornamentum est.

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

  • De natura deorum, 1.22 (9)

    Cicero
    Quid autem erat quod concupisceret deus mundum signis et luminibus tamquam aedilis ornare?

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