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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

• History Fragment 164 line 236

  Timaeus

  μετὰ δὲ ταύτην τὴν νῆσόν ἐστιν ἑτέρα τὴν μὲν προσηγορίαν ἔχουσα Γαῦλος, πελαγία δὲ καὶ λιμέσιν εὐκαίροις κεκοσμημένη, Φοινίκων ἄποικος.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Areopagiticus 7.66

  Isocrates

  καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ τάδε τίς οὐ μνημονεύει τῶν ἡλικιωτῶν τῶν ἐμῶν, τὴν μὲν δημοκρατίαν οὕτω κοσμήσασαν τὴν πόλιν καὶ τοῖς ἱεροῖς καὶ τοῖς ὁσίοις, ὥστ᾽ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τοὺς ἀφικνουμένους νομίζειν αὐτὴν ἀξίαν εἶναι μὴ μόνον τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἄρχειν ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων, τοὺς δὲ τριάκοντα τῶν μὲν ἀμελήσαντας, τὰ δὲ συλήσαντας, τοὺς δὲ νεωσοίκους ἐπὶ καθαιρέσει τριῶν ταλάντων ἀποδομένους, εἰς οὓς ἡ πόλις ἀνήλωσεν οὐκ ἐλάττω χιλίων ταλάντων;

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

  Location: Athens

• Pais 01275 = InscrIt-10-05, 00063

  Unknown

  [Imp(erator)] Caes(ar) M(arcus) A[ur(elius)] / [Anto]ninus Pi[us Fe]/[lix Invi]ctus Aug(ustus) [Parth(icus) max(imus)] / [Brit(annicus) m]ax(imus) Ger[m(anicus) max(imus) pont(ifex)] / [max(imus)] trib(unicia) po[t(estate) 3] / [3 pro]co(n)s(ul) I[3] / [3 libe]ralita[te 3] / [3]OII[3 // ]um PE[3] / [3]ia res[3] / [3 aba]cis mar[moreis] / exor[navit(?)

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

  Date: 213

  Location: Germania Superior: Aquae

• 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

• IG XII,3 325

  Unknown

  ἐπειδὴ ἡ κατὰ πόλιν ὑπάρχουσα στοὰ ἡ π[ρ]ὸς τῇ30 ἀγορᾷ ἀπεστέγασται μὲν ὅλη, ἐκ μέρους δὲ καὶ τὰ τῶντοίχων αὐτῆς καὶ οἰκοδομημάτων καταπέπτωκεν καὶτὰ πρόσλοιπα δὲ διαπεφορημένα κινδυνεύει εἰς ἔδα-φος κατενεχθῆναι, πολλάκις τε περὶ τῆ[ς] κατασκευῆςαὐτῆς καὶ ἐπισκευῆς πανδημεὶ καταβοήσεις ἐγένον-το ἀναγκαίου ὄντος τοῦ ἔργου πρὸς ὅλον τὸν τῆς πόλεωςκόσμον τε καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ πολυτέλειαν, διὰ τὸ μηδὲνἕτερον τοιοῦτον ἐν αὐτῇ ὑπάρχειν ἔργον, καὶμηδενὸς μήτε ἄρχοντος μήτε ἰδιώτου ὑπεσχη-μένου ἀπο[κατ]αστῆσαι τῇ πόλει τὸ ἔργον, συν-ο[ρθ]ῶ[ν] μετ[ὰ] καὶ τούτου τοῦ ἔργου καὶ τὰ ἄλλακαταρειπτούμενα ὑπισχνοῦμαι, ὁποῖον ἂν καὶὁπόσον ὁ καιρός μοι ἐπιτρέψῃ καὶ ἡ τύχη τῆςπόλεως, κατ[αστή]σας αὐτὸ ἀποδοῦναι τῇ πόλεισῷον ἐκ [τῶν ἰδίων] μετὰ τοῦ ὑοῦ μου Φλ. Κλειτοσθέ-[νους Ἰουλιανοῦ κ]αὶ τοῦ ἐκγόνου μου Φλ. Κλειτοσθέ-[νο]υς [Κλαυδιανοῦ]·

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Date: 149

  Location: Thera

• 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

• De architectura, 7.4.4

  Vitruvius

  Ipsi autem politionibus eorum ornatus proprios debent habere ad decoris rationes, uti et ex locis aptas et generum discriminibus non alienas habeant dignitates.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• De architectura, 4.1.7

  Vitruvius

  … cymatiis et encarpis pro crinibus dispositis frontes ornaverunt ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• De architectura, 4.1.2

  Vitruvius

  … quod ipsum corinthium genus propriam coronarum reliquorumque ornamentorum non habuerat institutionem, sed aut e triglyphorum rationibus mutuli in coronis et epistyliis guttae dorico more disponuntur ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• 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

• Cicero

  Rome

  Latin

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

• In Verrem, 2.2.86 (35)

  Cicero

  Etenim ut simul Africani quoque humanitatem et aequitatem cognoscatis, oppidum Himeram Carthaginienses quondam ceperant, quod fuerat in primis Siciliae clarum et ornatum.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• Marek, Kat. Kaisareia Hadrianop. 87 = BCH 21.1897.99,18

  Unknown

  εἴ με θέλεις γνῶν[αι] παροδεῖτα,τίς κατακεῖμε· / ἈλέξανδροςΦιλοπάτορος παῖς ἡδύβιος.ΟΚΟΥΚΗΤ․․․ησεν· τίς ἀδελφῶν;ἔνθα μοι ΚΟΣΜΗΘΕΥΠΕΝ ἄλοχοςΒασιλικὴ, τέκνα δέ μοι Ε[— —]ἔθεσαν, μνήμης χάριν.Εὐπάτωρ, Δήμαρχος, Φιλόπαππος, Εὐπάτρα.      ἔτους σμεʹ.

  Text Category: Papyrus

  Century Range: 3rd century CE

  Date: 240

  Location: Paphlagonia: Kaisareia Hadrianopolis

• 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, deliberansque 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

• De Nabutha 13.56

  Ambrose

  Sed delectant te ornamenta pretiosa, cum alii frumenta non habeant:

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century CE

• 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

• 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

• De Spectaculis 8.10

  Tertullian

  singula ornamenta circi singula templa sunt.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Date: 197-202

• Fragment 1 line 2

  Melanthius

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

  Text Category: Literature: poetry

  Century Range: 5th century BCE

• Fragment B2 Line 8

  Critias

  Τυρσηνὴ δὲ κρατεῖ χρυσότυπος φιάληκαὶ πᾶς χαλκὸς ὅτις κοσμεῖ δόμον ἔν τινι χρείᾳ.

  Text Category: Literature: poetry

  Century Range: 5th century BCE

• History Fragment 164 line 236

  Timaeus

  αὕτη γὰρ λιμέσι τε καλοῖς ὑπὸ τῆς φύσεως κεκόσμηται καὶ θερμοῖς ὕδασι τοῖς διαβεβοημένοις: οὐ μόνον γὰρ πρὸς ὑγίειαν τῶν νοσούντων τὰ κατ᾽ αὐτὴν λουτρὰ πολλὰ συμβάλλεται, ἀλλὰ καὶ κατὰ τὴν τῶν θερμῶν ὑδάτων ἰδιότητα παρέχεται τέρψιν καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν οὐ τὴν τυχοῦσαν.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 380

  Hecataeus of Abdera

  τὸν μὲν οὖν περίβολον αὐτὸν ὑποστήσασθαι σταδίων ἑκατὸν καὶ τετταράκοντα, οἰκοδομήμασι δὲ μεγάλοις καὶ ναοῖς ἐκπρεπέσι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἀναθήμασι κοσμῆσαι θαυμαστῶς

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 395

  Hecataeus of Abdera

  ἀναθήμασί τε γὰρ πολλοῖς καὶ μεγάλοις ἀργυροῖς καὶ χρυσοῖς, ἔτι δ᾿ ἐλεφαντίνοις, καὶ κολοττικῶν ἀνδριάντων πλήθει, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις κατασκευαῖς μονολίθων ὀβελίσκων μηδεμίαν τῶν 2ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον οὕτω κεκοσμῆσθαι.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

• Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 1053.

  Hecataeus of Abdera

  Τοιγαροῦν πλεῖστον μὲν χρόνον τῶν μνημονευομένων βασιλέων πολιτικὴν κατάστασιν ἐτήρησαν, εὐδαιμονέστατον δὲ βίον ἔχοντες διετέλεσαν, ἕως ἔμεινεν ἡ προειρημένη τῶν νόμων σύνταξις, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις ἐθνῶν τε πλείστων ἐπεκράτησαν καὶ μεγίστους πλούτους ἔσχον, καὶ τὰς μὲν χώρας ἔργοις καὶ κατασκευάσμασιν ἀνυπερβλήτοις, τὰς δὲ πόλεις ἀναθήμασι πολυτελέσι καὶ παντοίοις ἐκόσμησαν.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 4th century BCE