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  • Antidosis 15.234

    Isocrates
    τὸ δὲ τελευταῖον Περικλῆς καὶ δημαγωγὸς ὢν ἀγαθὸς καὶ ῥήτωρ ἄριστος οὕτως ἐκόσμησε τὴν πόλιν καὶ τοῖς ἱεροῖς καὶ τοῖς ἀναθήμασι καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἅπασιν, ὥστ᾽ ἔτι καὶ νῦν τοὺς εἰσαφικνουμένους εἰς αὐτὴν νομίζειν μὴ μόνον ἄρχειν ἀξίαν εἶναι τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων, καὶ πρὸς τούτοις εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν οὐκ ἐλάττω μυρίων ταλάντων ἀνήνεγκε.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Location: Athens

  • Histories 2.170.2

    Herodotus
    καὶ ἐν τῷ τεμένεϊ ὀβελοὶ ἑστᾶσι μεγάλοι λίθινοι, λίμνη τε ἐστὶ ἐχομένη λιθίνῃ κρηπῖδι κεκοσμημένη καὶ ἐργασμένη εὖ κύκλῳ καὶ μέγαθος, ὡς ἐμοὶ ἐδόκεε, ὅση περ ἡ ἐν Δήλῳ ἡ τροχοειδὴς καλεομένη.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 440
    Location: Ionia

  • Orations 13.28

    Demosthenes
    οἰκοδομήματα μέν γε καὶ κόσμον τῆς πόλεως, ἱερῶν καὶ λιμένων καὶ τῶν ἀκολούθων τούτοις, τοιοῦτον καὶ τοσοῦτον κατέλιπον ἐκεῖνοι, ὥστε μηδενὶ τῶν ἐπιγιγνομένων ὑπερβολὴν λελεῖφθαι, προπύλαια ταῦτα, νεώσοικοι, στοαί, τἄλλα, οἷς ἐκεῖνοι κοσμήσαντες τὴν πόλιν ἡμῖν παρέδωκαν

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Location: Athens

  • Politics 1331a.11-15

    Aristotle
    εἰ δὴ τοῦτον ἔχει τὸν τρόπον, οὐχ ὅτι τείχη μόνον περιβλητέον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τούτων ἐπιμελητέον ὅπως καὶ πρὸς κόσμον ἔχῃ τῇ πόλει πρεπόντως καὶ πρὸς τὰς πολεμικὰς χρείας, τάς τε ἄλλας καὶ τὰς νῦν ἐπεξευρημένας.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Location: Athens

  • Politics 1314b.38-39

    Aristotle
    τοὐναντίον τε ποιητέον τῶν πάλαι λεχθέντων σχεδὸν πάντων, κατασκευάζειν γὰρ δεῖ καὶ κοσμεῖν τὴν πόλιν ὡς ἐπίτροπον ὄντα καὶ μὴ τύραννον

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Location: Athens

  • Knights 565-568

    Aristophanes
    εὐλογῆσαι βουλόμεσθα τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν, ὅτι ἄνδρες ἦσαν τῆσδε τῆς γῆς ἄξιοι καὶ τοῦ πέπλου, οἵτινες πεζαῖς μάχαισιν ἔν τε ναυφάρκτῳ στρατῷ πανταχοῦ νικῶντες ἀεὶ τήνδ’ ἐκόσμησαν πόλιν·

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 424
    Location: Athens

  • Misapogon 355.B-C

    Julian
    οἱ γὰρ ὑπαίθριοι στενωποὶ καὶ αἱ πλατεῖαι τῶν ὁδῶν οὐκ ἐπὶ τούτῳ δήπου πεποίηνται, τῷ χρῆσθαι αὐταῖς τοὺς κανθηλίους, ἀλλ᾿ ἐκεῖναι μὲν αὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο κόσμου τινὸς ἕνεκα πρόκεινται καὶ πολυτελείας, χρῆσθαι δὲ ὑπ᾿ ἐλευθερίας οἱ ὄνοι βούλονται ταῖς στοαῖς, εἴργει δ᾿ αὐτοὺς οὐδεὶς οὐδενός, ἵνα μὴ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἀφέληται

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 363
    Location: Antioch

  • Historiae Romanae 62.2.2

    Cassius Dio
    καὶ αὐτοὺς αἵ τε πόλεις λαμπρῶς κεκοσμημέναι καὶ οἱ δῆμοι πολλὰ καὶ χαρίεντα ἀναβοῶντες ὑπεδέχοντο·

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

  • Historiae Romanae 48.18.3

    Cassius Dio
    ἀλλ᾿ ὁρᾶτε ὅτι τὰ μέν τινα αὐτῶν ἐς τοὺς πολέμους δεδαπάνηται, τὰ δὲ καὶ ὑμῖν τετήρηται, ἀφ᾿ ὧν ἥ τε πόλις κοσμηθήσεται καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ διοικηθήσεται.

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

  • Varia Historia 6.12

    Aelian
    ἡ δὲ πόλις τῶν Συρακουσίων λιμέσιν ἐκεκόσμητο μεγίστοις, καὶ τεῖχος αὐτῇ περιεβέβλητο ὑψηλότατον, σκεύη δὲ εἶχεν ἕτοιμα ναυσὶν ἄλλαις πεντακοσίαις, τεθησαύριστο δὲ αὐτῇ καὶ σῖτος εἰς ἑκατὸν μεδίμνων μυριάδας καὶ ὁπλοθήκη νενησμένη ἀσπίσι καὶ μαχαίραις καὶ δόρασι.

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

  • 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

  • Phalaris 1.3

    Lucian
    τὴν δὲ πόλιν αὐτὴν ὁρῶν ὀλιγωρίᾳ τῶν προεστώτων διεφθαρμένην, τῶν πολλῶν κλεπτόντων, μᾶλλον δὲ ἁρπαζόντων τὰ κοινά, ὑδάτων τε ἐπιρροίαις ἀνεκτησάμην καὶ οἰκοδομημάτων ἀναστάσεσιν ἐκόσμησα καὶ τειχῶν περιβολῇ ἐκράτυνα καὶ τὰς προσόδους

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

  • Septem sapientium convivium 3

    Plutarch
    ἐν τοιούτοις λόγοις γενόμενοι κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ἀφικόμεθα πρὸς τὴν οἰκίαν, καὶ λούσασθαι μὲν ὁ Θαλῆς οὐκ ἠθέλησεν, ἀληλιμμένοι γὰρ ἦμεν: ἐπιὼν δὲ τούς τε δρόμους ἐθεᾶτο καὶ τὰς παλαίστρας καὶ τὸ ἄλσος τὸ παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν ἱκανῶς διακεκοσμημένον, ὑπ᾽ οὐδενὸς ἐκπληττόμενος τῶν τοιούτων, ἀλλ᾽ ὅπως μὴ καταφρονεῖν δοκοίη μηδ᾽ ὑπερορᾶν τοῦ Περιάνδρου τῆς φιλοτιμίας.

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

  • CIL 11, 01062 = D 05372

    Unknown
    fla]/mini August[i 3] / [Q(uintus?)] Munatius Apsyrttu[s] / [VI]vir et Augustali[s] / [via]m lapide turbinat[o] / [a f]oro ad portam / [m]armoribus statu[eis(!)] / [fist]uleis(!) et salientibus / ornavit d(e) p(ecunia) s(ua)

    Text Category: Inscription: stela
    Century Range: 1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
    Date: 27 BCE - 14 CE
    Location: Aemilia: Parma

  • CIL 05, 07250 = D 05701 = AE 2007, 00890

    Unknown
    Salvis ddd(ominis) nnn(ostris) Valente Gratiano et Valentiniano Imp[pp(eratoribus) 3] / thermas Gratianas dudum coeptas et omissas Mag() Aput[3 praeses] / Alp(ium) Cott(iarum) extruxit ornavit et usui Segusinae reddidit civit[as 3] / formavit fistulas dedit aquam deduxit ne quid vel utilitati vel us[u 3]

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 375-378
    Location: Alpes Cottiae: Segusio

  • CIL 05, 02864 = CIL 10, *00596 = D 05406 = AE 2007, +00571 = AE 2007, +00571 = AE 2007, +00571

    Unknown
    M(arcus) Iunius / Sabinus / IIIIvir aedili/ciae potestat/e lege Iulia / municipali / patronus / collegi(i) cen/tonariorum / frontem templi / vervis et hermis / marmoreis pe/cunia sua orna/vit et tuition(e) dedit HS |(mille) |(mille) / n(ummum) CCXXXXII

    Text Category: Inscription: stela
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: 69 # 151 # 193 # See note for complications of dating
    Location: Venetia: Patavium

  • AE 1975, 00880

    Unknown
    Didasi // L(ucio) Octavio Aur[eliano?] / Didasio c(larissimo) v(iro) M[3]O / civi genitali ob [sin]gu[la]/rem in protegendis [civib(us)] / fidem et paratum [er]ga [o]mn[e]s / amorem thermas [et aquam(?) corrup]/tam post diluviem [3]/to servato recte(?) [3] / propria liberalitate [ex]o[rnavit] / excoluit perfecit dedi[c]avit / bene merito civi et pa[tr]ono [splen]/didissimus ord[o et] populus [mun(icipii)] / [U]ruensium statuam [posueru]nt d(ecreto) d(ecurionum) [p(ecunia) p(ublica)]

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Date: 280-350
    Location: Africa Proconsularis: Ureu

  • CIL 11, 00948 = Epigraphica-1981-247

    Unknown
    ] / [nomina eorum] / [qui] pecu[niam] / [co]ntulerunt [in] / [Ca]esareum faciun[dum] / [i]n Xystos Augus[tos(?)] / [no]vis operib[us] / [ex]struendos ornand[osq(ue)] / [in] munitionem via[e publica]/e silice sternend[ae] / [3]onius Cn(aei) [f(ilius) 3] / [3]anus St(ati) f(ilius) Celer / [3]bius L(uci) f(ilius) [3] / [3]cius T(iti) f(ilius) [3] / [3]vius L(uci) f(ilius) [

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: first half
    Location: Aemilia: San Possidonio

  • CIL 05, 00875 (p 1025) = InscrAqu-01, 00495 = D 01374 = IEAquil 00062 = AE 1893, 00091 = AE 1893, 00125 = AE 1995, +00571

    Unknown
    [P(ublius)] Tullius MA[3 M]amula(?) [IIII]viri i(ure) d(icundo) III Kal(endas) Iun(ias) / s(enatus) c(onsulto) scrib(endo) adf[uerunt 3] Proculus C(aius) Appuleius Celer / A(ulus) Iunius G[3] Sex(tus) Cossutius Secundus / quod v(erba) f(acta) s(unt) in ho[norem C(ai) Minici Itali splendidi]ssimum virum quidquid conse/qui gratiae au[t potentiae per summos honor]es equestris dignitatis potuerit / i<d=T> omne ad au[gendam et ornandam patria]m suam convertisse

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 105
    Location: Venetia: Aquileia

  • CIL 14, 04719

    Unknown
    Aurel[ius 3 An]icius S[ymmachus v(ir) c(larissimus) / praef(ectus) u[rb(i vice s(acra) i(udicans) m]acell[um a se noviter r]eparatu[m ad ornatum] / urbis et i[n usum civium d]ecor[avit omni cultu] adiecti[s ponderibus]

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 5th century CE
    Date: 418-420
    Location: Latium: Ostia

  • CIL 13, 01169

    Unknown
    ]C[3 Lug]/udun[i orna]/mentis [ornatus] / flamen / balineum cum suis [ornamentis de] / suo restituit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Aquitania: PIctones

  • CIL 12, 00668 = CAG-13-05, p 360 = AE 1952, 00107 = AE 2000, +00043 = AE 2004, 00880

    Unknown
    [DDDD(ominis) nnnn(ostris) Fl(avio) Val(erio) Constantino Max(imo) Vict(ori) semper Aug(usto) d]ivi Constanti filio divi Claudi nepoti / [bono rei publicae nato et Fl(avio) Iulio Crispo et Fl(avio) Claud]io Constantino et Fl(avio) Constanti[o] / [nobbb(ilissimis) Caesss(aribus) et piissimae ac venerabili Aug(ustae) Flaviae Max]imae Faustae Augusti Caesarumque / [uxori matrique 3 e]xo[r]natamque Arelatensium civitatem / [3 dedic]avit cur(ante) Iul(io) Atheneo v(iro) p(erfectissimo)

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 324-326
    Location: Gallia Narbonensis: Arelate

  • CIL 11, 07285 = D 08996 = AE 1904, 00037 = AE 1983, 00398 = AE 1998, 00086

    Unknown
    ] / praefectus Aegypt[i et] / Terentia A(uli) f(ilia) mater eiu[s et] / Cosconia Lentuli{i} Malug[inensis f(ilia)] / Gallitta uxor eius ae[dificiis] / emptis et ad solum de[iectis] / balneum cum omn[i ornatu] / [Volsiniens]ibus ded[erunt] / [ob publ]ica co[mmoda]

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: 15-16
    Location: Etruria: Volsiniii

  • CIL 10, 00212

    Unknown
    Rullus Festus / v(ir) c(larissimus) / corr(ector) Luc(aniae) et Brit(tiorum) / ad ornatum / thermarum / conlocavit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Location: Lucania: Grumentum

  • CIL 09, 01128 = D 05506 = AE 2005, 00423

    Unknown
    Mannachi c(larissimi) [v(iri)] / pro singularibus erga / civitatem nostram / meritis industriae / et eloquentiae praeci/puo et in omni adfectu / prae{n}stantissimo / fabricatori ex maxi/ma parte etiam civi/tatis nostrae multa / et usus et orn[a]tui / addenti Umbonio / Mannachio v(iro) c(larissimo) pa/trono dignissimo / ordo civitates Aecla/nensium statuam / ponendum censuit

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 337-380
    Location: Campania: Aeclanum