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  • Aleshire, Ath. Asklepieion 249,V

    Unknown
    ἐξετασμὸν τῶν ἐν τῶ[ι Ἀσκληπιείωι ἀνακειμένων ἀργυρῶν καὶ χρυσῶν — — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — ἐ]ν̣ τῶι Ἀσκληπιείωι ἀπὸ Πε̣[— — — ἱερέως — — — — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — —]Σ v ὅπως οὖν καὶ ἡ βουλ̣ὴ̣ [καὶ ὁ δῆμος — — — — — — — — — —] [— — — — — —] τ̣ῶι θεῶι καθάπερ καὶ πρότ[ερον — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —] [τοὺς λαχόντας προέδρους εἰς τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἐ]κκλησίαν χρηματίσαι πε̣[ρὶ τούτων, γνώμην δὲ ξυμβάλλεσθαι τῆς βουλῆς, ὅτι δοκεῖ τῆι βουλῆι — — — — —] [— — — — τὸν δῆμον χειροτ]ονῆσαι δέκα ἄνδρας ἤδη π[έντε μὲν ἐξ Ἀρεοπαγιτῶν, πέντε δὲ ἐξ ἑαυτῶν — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — — — — — — —] μετὰ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τοῦ [ἐπὶ τὴν παρασκευήν — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — πρ]ὸς κόσμον τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἀναθεῖ̣ν̣[αι — — — — — — — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — — — — τ]ῶι ἱερεῖ ἢ τοῖς θύουσιν καὶ δεῖν̣[— — — — — — — — —] [— — — — — — — — — — — — — —]αι ἕκαστα ὡς βέλτιστα·

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 3rd century BCE
    Date: 244-243
    Location: Athens: Asklepieion

  • Epitome, 1.11.7

    Florus
    … gentem, si opulentiam quaeras, aureis et argenteis armis et discolori veste usque ad ambitum ornatam

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Rome (or possibly Roman Spain)

  • Bellum civile, 3.511

    Lucan
    … Non robore picto/ Ornatas decuit fulgens tutela carinas/ ...

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

  • 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

  • Ars amatoria, 3.231-232

    Ovid
    Aurea quae splendent ornato signa theatro,/ Inspice, contemnes: brattea ligna tegit

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

  • Ars amatoria, 1.407

    Ovid
    Sive erit ornatus non ut fuit ante sigillis,/ Sed regum positas Circus habebit opes ...

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

  • Metamorphoses, 11.3

    Apuleius
    … spicis etiam Cerialibus desuper porrectis ornata.

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

  • Noctes Atticae, 15.8.2

    Aulus Gellius
    … quando stratus lectus auro, argento, purpura amplior aliquot hominibus quam dis inmortalibus adornatur?”

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

  • Noctes Atticae, 13.25.9

    Aulus Gellius
    “Quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus, sedibus, delubris fuit.”

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

  • De vita Caesarum: Vitellius, 5.1

    Suetonius
    at in urbano officio dona atque ornamenta templorum subripuisse et commutasse quaedam ferebatur proque auro et argento stagnum et aurichalcum supposuisse.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 30.2

    Suetonius
    Aedes sacras vetustate conlapsas aut incendio absumptas refecit easque et ceteras opulentissimis donis adornavit, ut qui in cellam Capitolini Iovis sedecim milia pondo auri gemmasque ac margaritas quingenties sestertium una donatione contulerit.

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

  • Epistulae, 5.11.1

    Pliny the Younger
    Recepi litteras tuas ex quibus cognovi speciosissimam te porticum sub tuo filiique tui nomine dedicasse, sequenti die in portarum ornatum pecuniam promisisse, ut initium novae liberalitatis esset consummatio prioris.

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

  • Historia Naturalis, 36.46 (5)

    Pliny the Elder
    dicit ... regias quoque domus, cum lautissime, praeter aes, aurum, electrum, argentum ebore tantum adornans.

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

  • Strategmata, 4.1.5

    Frontinus
    Scipio Africanus, cum ornatum scutum elegantius cuiusdam vidisset, dixit non mirari se, quod tanta cura ornasset, in quo plus praesidii quam in gladio haberet.

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

  • Institutio oratoria, 2.3.6

    Quintilian
    … nisi forte Iovem quidem Phidias optime fecit, illa autem quae in ornamentum operis eius accedunt alius melius elaborasset ...

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

  • Historiae, 3.72

    Tacitus
    … ea magnificentia quam immensae postea populi Romani opes ornarent potius quam augerent.

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

  • Naturales quaestiones, 4a.2.18

    Seneca the Younger
    argentum replumbatur; signorum coagmenta solvuntur; nullum materiae superadornatae manet operimentum.

    Text Category: Literature: verse
    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

  • Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, 115.9

    Seneca the Younger
    Nec tantum parietibus aut lacunaribus ornamentum tenue praetenditur

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

  • De providentia, 6.4

    Seneca the Younger
    Auro illos et argento et ebore adornavi, intus boni nihil est.

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 7.6.4

    Valerius Maximus
    ...senatus consulto aurea atque argentea templorum ornamenta, ne militibus stipendia deessent, conflata sunt

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.4.6

    Valerius Maximus
    Claudius Pulcher scaenam varietate colorum adumbravit, vacuis ante pictura tabulis extentam. quam totam argento C. Antonius, auro Petreius, ebore Q. Catulus praetexuit. versatilem fecerunt Luculli, argentatis choragiis P. Lentulus Spinther adornavit.

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 2.2.7

    Valerius Maximus
    … instrui tamen ea argenteis vasis et anulis aureis publice praebitis patiebantur, quo talium rerum usu auctoritas magistratuum esset ornatior.

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

  • Facta et dicta memorabilia, 1.1.ext.3

    Valerius Maximus
    detracto etiam Iovi Olympio magni ponderis aureo amiculo, quo eum tyrannus Gelo e manubiis Carthaginiensium ornaverat.

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

  • Historia Alexandri Magni, 10.1.24

    Quintus Curtius
    … currusque argento et auro adornati ...

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