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  • 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

  • De Nabutha 13.56

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

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

  • 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

  • Orations 19.3

    Aelius Aristides
    ἃ νῦν πάντα ἐν κόνει. μέμυκε μὲν ἐκεῖνος λιμὴν, οἴχεται δὲ ἀγορᾶς κάλλη, κόσμοι δὲ ὁδῶν ἀφανεῖς, γυμνάσια δὲ αὐτοῖς ἀνδράσι καὶ παισὶ διέφθαρται: ναοὶ δὲ οἱ μὲν κεῖνται, οἱ δὲ κατέδυσαν: ἡ δὲ πρὸς θέαν ὡραιοτάτη πόλεων καὶ τοῦ κάλλους ἐπώνυμος ἀνθρώποις ἅπασιν ἀωρότατον θεαμάτων ἀποπέφανται, κολωνὸς ἐρειπίων καὶ νεκρῶν.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 178
    Location: Smyrna

  • Economics 5.3

    Xenophon
    ἔπειτα δὲ ὅσοις κοσμοῦσι βωμοὺς καὶ ἀγάλματα καὶ οἷς αὐτοὶ κοσμοῦνται, καὶ ταῦτα μετὰ ἡδίστων ὀσμῶν καὶ θεαμάτων παρέχει:

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Date: 362-354

  • Dicaeogenes 5.42

    Isaeus
    ἔτι δ᾽ ἐν ἀκροπόλει ἀπαρχὰς τῶν ὄντων ἀναθέντες πολλοῖς, ὡς ἀπὸ ἰδίας κτήσεως, ἀγάλμασι χαλκοῖς καὶ λιθίνοις κεκοσμήκασι τὸ ἱερόν.

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

  • Vita Sophistarum 605

    Philostratus the Athenian
    οῦτο μὲν δὴ τοὖργον ἀπὸ πολλῶν χρημάτων ἀποτελεσθὲν ἐπέγραψεν ἀπὸ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γυναικός, τὸ δὲ ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἑστιατήριον αὐτὸς ἀνέθηκε μεγέθει τε ἐξάρας ὑπὲρ πάνθ᾿ ὁμοῦ τὰ παρ᾿ ἑτέροις καὶ λόγου κρείττω περιβαλὼν κόσμον,ὡράισται γὰρ Φρυγίῳ λίθῳ, οἷος οὔπω ἐτμήθη.

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

  • Historiae Romanae 51.17.8

    Cassius Dio
    τοῖς τε προδανείσασί τι πάντα ἀπηλλάγη, καὶ τοῖς συμμετασχοῦσι τοῦ πολέμου καὶ τῶν βουλευτῶν καὶ τῶν ἱππέων πάμπολλα ἐδόθη, τό τε σύμπαν ἥ τε ἀρχὴ ἡ τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐπλουτίσθη καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ αὐτῶν ἐκοσμήθη.

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

  • Hippias 5

    Lucian
    μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον ἑκατέρωθεν διαρκεῖς τοῖς ' ἀποδυομένοις ἀποθέσεις, καὶ μέσος οἶκος ὕψει τε ὑψηλότατος καὶ φωτὶ φαιδρότατος, ψυχροῦ ὕδατος ἔχων τρεῖς κολυμβήθρας, Λακαίνῃ λίθῳ κεκοσμημένος, καὶ εἰκόνες ἐν αὐτῷ λίθου λευκοῦ τῆς ἀρχαίας ἐργασίας, ἡ μὲν Ὑγιείας, ἡ δὲ Ἀσκληπιοῦ.

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

  • Deipnosophistae 14.51

    Athenaeus
    ὦ τὴν εὐτυχῆ ναίων Πάρον, ὄλβιε πρέσβυ, ἣ κάλλιστα φέρει χώρα δύο τῶν συναπασῶν, κόσμον μὲν μακάρεσσι λίθον, θνητοῖς δὲ πλακοῦντας.

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

  • Vita decem oratorum 8

    Plutarch
    τῶν δ᾽ Ἀθηναίων ψηφισαμένων οἷς ὤφειλε τριάκοντα ταλάντοις κοσμῆσαι αὐτὸν τὸν βωμὸν τοῦ σωτῆρος Διὸς ἐν Πειραιεῖ καὶ ἀφεῖσθαι, τοῦτο γράψαντος τὸ ψήφισμα Δήμωνος Παιανιέως, ὃς ἦν ἀνεψιὸς αὐτῷ, πάλιν ἐπὶ τούτοις ἦν πολιτευόμενος.

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

  • De fortuna romanorum 12

    Plutarch
    ἡ δ᾽ ὄψις ἐπιδείκνυται Τ ύχης ἰσχὺν καὶ πρὸς ἅπαν εὐπορίαν ἐκ τῶν παραλόγων, ὅταν τι πραγματεύηται καὶ στρατηγῇ, νοῦν μὲν ἀλόγοις καὶ ἄφροσιν, ἀλκὴν δὲ καὶ θράσος δειλοῖς ἐντιθείσης. τίς γὰρ οὐκ ἂν ὡς ἀληθῶς ἐκπλαγείη καὶ θαυμάσειεν ἐπιμαθὴς γενόμενος καὶ λογισμῷ τινι τὴν τότε κατήφειαν καὶ τὴν νῦν ὑπάρχουσαν εὐδαιμονίαν τῆς πόλεως περιλαβὼν καὶ ἀποβλέψας ναῶν λαμπρότητα καὶ πλοῦτον ἀναθημάτων καὶ τεχνῶν ἁμίλλας καὶ φιλοτιμίας πόλεων καὶ στεφάνους βασιλέων, καὶ ὅσα γῆ φέρει καὶ θάλαττα καὶ νῆσοι καὶ ἤπειροι καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ δένδρα καὶ ζῷα καὶ πεδία καὶ ὄρη καὶ μέταλλα, πάντων ἀπαρχὰς ἐριζούσας εἰς κάλλος ὄψει καὶ χάριτι κοσμούσῃ τὸν τόπον

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

  • RPAA-2008/09-51 = AE 2008, 00358

    Unknown
    [Vibi]dia virginis l(iberta) Saturni[na] et A(ulus) Fu[rius Saturnin]us / [o]b honores sibi et suis decret[os a]edem Ven[eris vetustate corr]uptam / [imp]ensa sua refectam adornaverunt pronaio a solo fa[ct]o id[em HS 3 in Capit]oli refec/[tio]ne contulerunt et amplius HS LIIII(milia) rei p(ublicae) dederunt ob flamoni[u]m et dec[urionalia ornamenta(?) ma]xima

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: 70-79
    Location: Campania: Herculaneum: Temple of Venus

  • IRT 00601b = IRT-S, 00024

    Unknown
    [Q]uod expostulantibus universis decurio/nibus uti Plautio Lupo o(ptimo) o(rdinis) n(ostri) vir(o) biga de pub(lico) / collocetur q(uid) d(e) e(a) r(e) f(ieri) p(laceret) c(ensentis) L(uci) Cassi Longini II/vir(i) desig(nati) q(uid) p(laceret) c(irca) i(d) f(ieri) dec(uriones) i(ta) c(ensuerunt) cum Plautius Lupus / o(ptimus) o(rdinis) n(ostri) vir cum flamonium consensu / omnium sibi delatum libenter suscepis/set opulentissimos ludos ediderit sing/u(lariter)q(ue) magnificentissima liberalitate pro/meruerit in IIviratus quoq(ue) honore om/nia secundum splendorem natalium / [s]uorum dignitatemq(ue) col(oniae) n(ostrae) egerit et / [e]ffusissimis adfectibus iterum splen/didissimos ludos ediderit nec contentus / his liberalitatibus cellam thermar(um) / marmorib(us) Numidicis et opere musaeo ex/ornaverit omni deinde occasione singul(ariter) / [p]romeruerit et proxime cum ad munus publ(icum) / [e]x t(estamento) Iuni Afri c(larissimae) m(emoriae) viri edendum curator e/le[c]tus esset sollicitudini laboriq(ue) suo non pe/percerit et observata amplissimi senatus / voluntate splendidissime munus edi curaveri[t] / debentque huiusmodi adfectus / remunerari ut reliqui quoque ad eamdem volup/[tat]em sollicitari possint placere Plautio Lupo / o(ptimo) o(rdinis) n(ostri) v(iro) [bi]gam de publ(ico) ubi volet collocari pos/[t Plau]tius Lupus de suo collocaturum se dixit

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Location: Africa Proconsularis: Lepcis Magna

  • IRT 00396 = AE 1991, 01619 = AE 2005, +01662

    Unknown
    Imp(eratoris) Caes(aris) L(uci) Septimi S]eve[ri Pii Pertinacis Aug(usti) Arabici A]diaben[ici Par]thici maximi [pontificis max]imi [tribunici]ae potes[tati]s X[3] imp[eratoris 3 p(atris)] p(atriae) et I[mp(eratoris)] / [Caes(aris) M(arci) Aurelli Antonini 3 et I]uliae [Augu]stae [matris Augusti et cas]tror[um totiusque] divinae domus / [3] Rusonianus fl[am(en)] augur IIvir q(uin)q(uennalis) cellam f[rigi]darii et [c]ry/[pta(?)] rui[na con]la<p=B>sas [e]x pollicitatione m[un]eris gladiato[rii o]b honorem / [quinquennalita]tis p[romissa(?)] permissu sacratiss[imi pr]incipis divi M(arci) Antonin[i f(ilii)] a fundamentis / [3] marmoribus et co[l]umnis exornavit stat[u]am Aesculapii novam / [3 res]tituit ceter[as] refe[c]it ex [multi]s aliis [m]une[ribu]s rei p(ublicae) suae conlatis et / [3]uli nomine vi[3]iti[ // ]bus[

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 3rd century CE
    Date: 202-209
    Location: Africa Proconsularis: Lepcis Magna

  • ILAfr 00384 = ILPBardo-A, 00025 = AE 1920, 00029

    Unknown
    sacerd(os) Cer]er(um) anni CLIIX aed(ilis) q(uaestor) praef(ectus) i(ure) [d(icundo)] / [3 pr]aeter HS LXXXX m(ilia) quae ob honor(em) a[ed(ilitatis)] / [3 ex] culturum se ob honor(em) flam(onii) et po[nt(ificatus)] / [3 e]t contignavit item marmoribu[s] / [3 et] ob dedicat(ionem) dies quinq(ue) ludorum / [3 statu]is(?) ceteroq(ue) cultu s(ua) p(ecunia) exornavit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Africa Proconsularis: Carthago

  • 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

  • Fano 00007 = AE 1983, 00380 = AE 1999, +00602

    Unknown
    [C(aius) Cupp]ienus C(ai) f(ilius) Pol(lia) / [Terminalis] praef(ectus) coh(ortis) III Bracarum [in Syr(ia) Pal]aes(tina) praef(ectus) fab(rum) archit(ectus) / signum m[armor(eum) ex v(oto) t]estam(ento) fieri / poniq(ue) iuss(it) / nomine suo et O[ctavia]e Pollae uxoris ex HS X / Octavia Cn(aei) f(ilia) Pol[la] acc(epto) loc(o) d(ecreto) d(ecurionum) ex pec(unia) / sua sc<u=O>l(ptis) marmor(ibus) et lacun(aribus) ceteroq(ue) opere adorn(avit)

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 131-170
    Location: Umbria: Pisaurum

  • Euergetismo-Urb, 00003 = AE 1993, 00594

    Unknown
    C(aius) Salvi[us C(ai) f(ilius) Vel(ina) Liberal]is [3 et] C(aius) Sa[lvius C(ai) f(ilius) Vel(ina)] / Vitellia[nus 3 theat]r[um quod] ante s[ua pecunia reficiend(um)] / [curaverunt 3 colum]nis mar[moreis 3] / [3 sta]tuis [3 exornave]runt por[ticum 3] / [adiecerun]t [3 data insupe]r pecunia [3]

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: 80-89
    Location: Picenum: Urbis Salvia

  • Corinth-08-02, 00130

    Unknown
    ]SA[3]T[3] / [3 marmoribu]s [3] / [3] in[cru]staver[unt 3] / [3 et ornaver]unt [3] / [3 eid]em [3] / [3 de s]uo[

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Achaia: Corinth

  • CIL 14, 02995 = CIL 10, *00733 (p 77*)

    Unknown
    Sex(tus) Pomp[eius 3] / trib(unus) mil(itum) IIvir [3 flamen] / divi Aug(usti) Neronis [Caesaris IIviri quinquennalis] / praefectus testa[mento 3] / Pompeia Mummi[a 3] / [ex qua] summa porticum mar[moribus ornavit] / [3]TRF albario adiecta [3] / [3] quinq(uennali) passu[

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: 51-54
    Location: Latium: Praeneste

  • Pais 01275 = InscrIt-10-05, 00063

    Unknown
    Minervae sacrum / Q(uintus) Romanius Cambu/ronis f(ilius) aram et / aedem opere tectorio / ornavit ex voto suscept(o)

    Text Category: Inscription: altar
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Venetia: Brixia

  • 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 11, 00294 = ILCV 00695 = ILCV +01036

    Unknown
    B(eati) Apolenaris sacerdotis basilica / mandante v(iro) b(eato) Ursicino episcopo / a fundamentis Iulianus argentarius / (a)edificavit ornavit atque dedicavit / consecrante v(iro) b(ono) Maximiano episcopo / die (!) Maiarum ind(ictione) XII octies p(ost) c(onsulatum) Basilii

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 6th century CE
    Date: 534-549
    Location: Aemilia: Ravenna