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  • CIL 10, 00531 (p 965) = InscrIt-01-01, 00011 = D 03593

    Unknown
    T(itus) Tettienus Felix Augustalis / scriba librar(ius) aedili(ium) curul{l}(ium) / viator aedil(ium) plebis accensus / consuli HS L m(ilia) n(ummum) legavit / ad exornandam aedem Pomonis / ex qua summa factum est fastigium / inauratum podium pavimenta marm(orea) opus tectorium

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: last two decades
    Location: Campania: Salernum

  • CLE 00915 = ILCV 01782

    Unknown
    Antistes Damasus picturae orna{ra}t honore / tecta quibus nunc dant pulchra metalla decus / divite testatur pretiosior aula nitore / quos rerum effectus possit habere fides / papae Hilari meritis olim devota Severi / nec non Cassiae mens dedit ista d(e)o

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • CIL 14, 03941 = EE-09, p 485 = D 04378 = SIRIS 00531 = RICIS-02, 00503/0801

    Unknown
    D(ecimus) Valerius D(ecimi) f(ilius) Cor(nelia) / Proculus aedil(is) dictator / quaest(or) alimentor(um) / hydraeum <g=C>emmis ex/ornatum et auratum / una cum Valeria Fortu/nata et Valeria Procula / Isidi et Serapi / d(onum) d(edit)

    Text Category: Inscription: altar
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Latium: Nomentum

  • CIL 12, 04445 = ILGN +00571 = CAG-11-01, p 442

    Unknown
    et a]mplius [3] / [3 signu]m argent[eum 3] / [3] aeneos [3] / [3 ad t]heatri or[na]/[tione]m HS IIII(milia?) dedit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Gallia Narbonensis: Narbo

  • CIL 06, 41062 = CIL 06, 01527 (p 3142, 3444, 3805) = CIL 06, 31670 = CIL 06, 37053 = D 08393 (p 190) = AE 1899, 00095 = AE 1949, +00181 = AE 1951, 00002 = AE 1951, 00247 = AE 1978, 00014 = AE 1992, 00081 = AE 1993, 00119 = AE 1993, 00120 = AE 1992, +00081 = AE 1994, 00106 = AE 1999, 00235

    Unknown
    praetermittenda [mihi sunt // [varia et ampla subsi]dia fugae meae praestitisti ornamentis / [me instruxisti] cum omne aurum margaritaque corpori

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century BCE
    Date: 15-9
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • CIL 02, 06081 = CIL 02-14-02-01, 00910 = RIT 00079

    Unknown
    Divo V[ero] / divi Pii [fil(io)] / [3 au]reis adorn[at 3] / [3]ii Philetus [3] / [3 O]viniu[s(?)

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Hispania Citerior: Tarraco

  • CIL 12, 03058 = SIRIS 00728 = RICIS-02, 00605/0101

    Unknown
    Isis] ex [HS 3] / Serapis Vestae Dianae Somni [ex] / HS n(ummum) VI(milibus) et phialas II chrysen[g]l[yptas(?)] / [et si]gna deorum argentea castrensia [3 quae in] / domo habebat item [3] / dedicatione templi Isis et Serapis dec[uri]/onibus Nemausensium / et ornamentar[iis] / singulis |(denarios) V ita ut / in publico vescerentur / distribui iussit inque eius domus [tu]/telam HS n(ummum) X(milia) reliquit / item [3 im]/aginem Martis argenteam ex [3] / [S]amnagensibus dedit / [hui]c ordo Bitur[igum

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Gallia Narbonensis: Nemausus

  • CIL 06, 00103 (p 3755) = CIL 06, 30692 = D 01879

    Unknown
    // Bebryx Aug(usti) l(ibertus) Drusianus A(ulus) Fabius Xanthus cur(ator) scribis librariis et praeconibus aedil(ibus) cur(ulibus) scholam / ab inchoato refecerunt marmoribus ornaverunt Victoriam Augustam et sedes aeneas et cetera ornamenta de sua pecunia dederunt // Bebryx Aug(usti) l(ibertus) Drusianus A(ulus) Fabius Xanthus cur(ator) imagines argenteas deorum septem post dedicationem scholae / et mutulos cum tabella aenea de sua pecunia dederunt // A(ulus) Fabius Xanthus Bebryx Aug(usti) l(ibertus) Drusianus cur(ator) scribis librariis et praeconibus aedil(ibus) cur(ulibus) scholam / ab inchoato refecerunt marmoribus ornaverunt Victoriam augustam et sedes aeneas et cetera ornamenta dederunt

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Date: 23-116
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • CIL 02-05, 00713 = CIL 02, 02060 (p 705) = D 05496 = ILPGranada 00088 = CILA-04, 00113

    Unknown
    Postumia M(arci) f(ilia) / Aciliana Baxo(nensis?) / poni statuam sibi testamen/to iussit ex HS VIII(milibus) n(ummum) item ornamenta septentrio/nem cylindr(orum) XXXXII marg(aritarum) / VII item lineam cylindrorum / XXII item fasc(iam) cylindr(orum) LXIII / marg(aritarum) C item lineam arg(enteam) / marg(aritarum) XII L(ucius) Fab(ius) Super/stes filius dedicavit / inpositis spataliis arg(enteis) / gemmatis exsuper eius / summae s(upra) s(criptae) / item annulum / HS VII(milium) n(ummum) gemma ias/pide

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: second half
    Location: Baetica: Campo Agro

  • CIL 06, 00222 (p 3004, 3755) = CIL 06, 30719 = D 02161

    Unknown
    C(aio) Calpurnio Pisone M(arco) Vettio Bolano co(n)s(ulibus) / Q(uinto) Rammio Martiale pr(aefecto) T(ito) Flavio Priamo tr(ibuno) / T(ito) Saenio Clemente |(centurione) aedicula facta cum / Genio a Gresio Facundo b(eneficiario) trib(uni) quam / M(arco) Ceionio Silvano C(aio) Serio Augurino co(n)s(ulibus) / C(aio) Tattio Maximo pr(aefecto) T(ito) Flavio Anterotiano s(ub)pr(aefecto) / Q(uinto) Plotieno Sabino tr(ibuno) coh(ortis) V vig(ulum) / Ti(berius) Claudius Ti(beri) f(ilius) Fab(ia) Messallinus Heracl(ea) |(centurio) coh(ortis) s(upra) s(criptae) / vetustate corruptam adampliavit columnis / purpuriticis valvis aereis marmore et omni / ornamento a novo ex pecunia furfuraria / |(centuriae) suae fecit volentib(us) manipul(aribus) suis quor(um) / nomina in tab(ula) aer(ea) scripta sunt

    Text Category: Inscription: altar
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 156
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • De Lysia 29

    Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    ἔστι δή τις αὐτῷ πανηγυρικὸς λόγος, ἐν ᾧ πείθει τοὺς Ἕλληνας ἀγομένης Ὀλυμπίασι τῆς πανηγύρεως ἐκβάλλειν Διονύσιον τὸν τύραννον ἐκ τῆς ἀρχῆς καὶ Σικελίαν ἐλευθερῶσαι ἄρξασθαί τε τῆς ἔχθρας αὐτίκα μάλα, διαρπάσαντας τὴν τοῦ τυράννου σκηνὴν χρυσῷ τε καὶ πορφύρᾳ καὶ ἄλλῳ πλούτῳ πολλῷ κεκοσμημένην.

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

  • Antiquitates Romanae 10.24.2

    Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    ὡς δ᾿ ἐγγὺς ἦν, ἵππους τ᾿ αὐτῷ φαλάροις κεκοσμημένους ἐκπρεπέσι προσῆγον καὶ πελέκεις ἅμα ταῖς ῥάβδοις εἰκοσιτέτταρας παρέστησαν ἐσθῆτά τε ἁλουργῆ καὶ τἆλλα παράσημα οἷς πρότερον ἡ τῶν βασιλέων ἐκεκόσμητο ἀρχὴ προσήνεγκαν

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

  • Antiquitates Romanae 6.94.1

    Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    ἐδωρήσατο δ᾿ αὐτὸν ἵππῳ πολεμιστῇ στρατηγικοῖς ἐπισήμοις κεκοσμημένῳ

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

  • Antiquitates Romanae 5.34.3

    Dionysius of Halicarnassus
    μίαν δὲ παρθένον ἐκ τῶν ὁμήρων, ὑφ᾿ ἧς ἐπείσθησαν αἱ λοιπαὶ διανήξασθαι τὸν ποταμόν, ἐπαινέσας ὡς κρεῖττον ἔχουσαν φρόνημα τῆς τε φύσεως καὶ τῆς ἡλικίας, καὶ τὴν πόλιν μακαρίσας ἐπὶ τῷ μὴ μόνον ἄνδρας ἀγαθοὺς ἐκτρέφειν, ἀλλὰ καὶ παρθένους ἀνδράσιν ὁμοίας, δωρεῖται τὴν κόρην ἵππῳ πολεμιστῇ φαλάροις κεκοσμημένῳ διαπρεπέσι.

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

  • Orationes 13.34-35

    Dio Chrystostom
    ὡς τό γε νῦν τὸ μέγεθος αὐτῆς ὕποπτον καὶ οὐ πάνυ ἀσφαλές. ὅσῳ γὰρ ἄν, ἔφην, πλείων ἥ τε ἀνδρεία καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη καὶ ἡ σωφροσύνη γίγνηται παρ᾿ ὑμῖν, τοσούτῳ ἔλαττον ἔσται τό τε ἀργύριον καὶ τὸ χρυσίον καὶ τὰ ἐλεφάντινα σκεύη καὶ τὰ ἠλέκτρινα καὶ κρύσταλλος καὶ θύον καὶ ἔβενος καὶ ὁ τῶν γυναικῶν κόσμος καὶ τὰ ποικίλματα καὶ αἱ βαφαί, καὶ ξύμπαντα ἁπλῶς τὰ νῦν ἐν τῇ πόλει τίμια καὶ περιμάχητα, ἐλαττόνων αὐτῶν δεήσεσθε· ὅταν δὲ ἐληλυθότες ἦτε ἐπ᾿ ἄκρον ἀρετῆς, οὐδενός

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

  • Orationes 2.34

    Dio Chrysostom
    Τί δέ; εἶπεν ὁ Φίλιππος, ὦ παῖ, πάνυ γὰρ ἡδέως ἀκούω σου τὰ τοιαῦτα λέγοντος, οὐδὲ οἴκησιν ἀξιοῖς κατεσκευάσθαι τὸν βασιλέα πρὸς ἡδονὴν κεκοσμημένην χρυσῷ καὶ ἠλέκτρῳ καὶ ἐλέφαντι τοῖς πολυτίμοις; Οὐδαμῶς, εἶπεν, ὦ πάτερ, πολὺ δὲ μᾶλλον σκύλοις τε καὶ ὅπλοις πολεμίων ἀνδρῶν· καὶ τά γε ἱερὰ τοιούτοις κόσμοις κοσμοῦντα τοὺς θεοὺς1 ἱλάσκεσθαι καθάπερ ὁ Ἕκτωρ ἠξίου, προκαλούμενος τὸν ἄριστον τῶν Ἀχαιῶν· ὅτι κρατήσας τὸ μὲν σῶμα ἀποδώσει τοῖς συμμάχοις, τὰ δὲ ὅπλα, ἔφη, σκυλεύσω,καὶ κρεμόω ποτὶ νηὸν Ἀπόλλωνος ἑκάτοιο.

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

  • Prometheus es in verbis

    Lucian
    οἱ δὲ πρὸς μὲν τὴν κάμηλον εφοβήθησαν καὶ ὀλίγου δεῖν ἔφυγον ἀναθορόντες, καίτοι χρυσῶ πᾶσα ἐκεκόσμητο καὶ ἁλουργίδι ἐπέστρωτο και ὁ χαλινὸς ἦν λιθοκόλλητος, Δαρείου τινὸς ἢ Καμβύσου ἢ Κύρου αὐτοῦ κειμήλιον

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

  • De Domo 15

    Lucian
    καὶ πρῶτόν γε ἐπειδὴ γυναικῶν καὶ κόσμου καὶ χρυσοῦ ἐκεῖνος ἐμνημόνευσεν, κἀμοὶ ἐπιτρέψατε χρήσασθαι τῷ παραδείγματι: φημὶ γὰρ οὖν καὶ γυναιξὶ καλαῖς οὐχ ὅπως συλλαμβάνειν ἐς τὸ εὐμορφότερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐναντιοῦσθαι τὸν κόσμον τὸν πολύν, ὁπόταν τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων ἕκαστος ὑπὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ τῶν λίθων τῶν πολυτελῶν ἐκπλαγεὶς ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπαινεῖν ἢ ' χρόαν ἢ βλέμμα ἢ δειρὴν ἢ πῆχυν ἢ δάκτυλον, ὁ δὲ ταῦτ᾽ ἀφεὶς ἐς τὴν σαρδὼ ἢ τὸν σμάραγδον ἢ τὸν ὅρμον ἢ τὸ ψέλιον ἀποβλέπῃ, ὥστε ἄχθοιτο ἂν εἰκότως παρορωμένη διὰ τὸν κόσμον, οὐκ ἀγόντων σχολὴν ἐπαινεῖν αὐτὴν τῶν θεατῶν, ἀλλὰ πάρεργον αὐτῆς ποιουμένων τὴν θέαν.

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

  • De Syria dea 32

    Lucian
    χειρὶ δὲ τῇ μὲν ἑτέρῃ σκῆπτρον ἔχει, τῇ ἑτέρῃ δὲ ἄτρακτον, καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ ἀκτῖνὰς τε φορέει καὶ πύργον καὶ κεστὸν τῷ μούνην τὴν Οὐρανίην κοσμέουσιν.

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

  • ICUR-02, 04292 = ILCV 01786 

    Unknown
    Ob insigne meritum et singulare beati Pancrati martyris / beneficium basilicam vetustate confectam extra corpus / martyris neglectu antiquitatis exstructam Honorius ep(iscopu)s / d(e)i famulus abrasa vetustatis mole ruinaque minante a / fundamentis noviter plebi d(e)i construxit et corpus martyris / quod ex obliquo aulae iacebat altari insignibus ornato / metallis loco proprio collocavit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 7th century CE
    Date: 625-638
    Location: Latium: Rome: Basilica of St. Pancras

  • CIL 06, 03559 ( p 3407, 3847) = CIL 06, 32989 = D 09081 = Philippi 00757

    Unknown
    L(ucio) Venuleio Aproniano II L(ucio)] Sergio Paullo II co(n)s(ulibus) / [3 signis milita]rib(us) V sedem exstructo tribunali / [cum omnibus ornamentis et apparito]rio(?) milites infra scripti fecerunt // [3 Orfito et Pude]nte co(n)s(ulibus) / [3]tus Patav(io) / [3]a Bonon(ia) / [3 Pudente et Polli]one co(n)s(ulibus) / [3] Fidentia [ // Sex(tus) Bolanius Quintianus Tar(ento) / M(arcus) Tintorius Kalendinus Capua / P(ublius) Fabius Saturnalis Patavio / Q(uintus) Romanus Charito Mediol(ano) / M(arcus) Brittius Secundus Nepe(te) / [3]us Strato Berua / [3]us Philip(pis) / [

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 168
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • AE 1989, 00514

    Unknown
    ]stia / [3 c]um orna/[mentis d]ederunt

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 1st century CE
    Location: Aquitania: Eliumberrum/ Augusta Auscorum

  • AE 1898, 00061 = AE 2002, 01716

    Unknown
    Deae Pedi/sequae / Virtutis Bel/lonae lecti/cam cum su/is ornamen/tis et basem / C(aius) Avianius Aman/dus augur / d(onum) d(edit) et consecravit

    Text Category: Inscription: dedication
    Location: Mauretania Caesariensis: Aquae Calidae

  • Life of Marcellus 21.1

    Plutarch
    τὸν δὲ Μάρκελλον ἀνακαλουμένων τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἐπὶ τὸν ἐγχώριον καὶ σύνοικον πόλεμον, ἐπανερχόμενος τὰ πλεῖστα καὶ κάλλιστα τῶν ἐν Συρακούσαις ἐκίνησεν ἀναθημάτων, ὡς αὐτῷ τε πρὸς τὸν θρίαμβον ὄψις εἴη καὶ τῇ πόλει κόσμος.

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

  • Life of Lucullus 29.7

    Plutarch
    τούτων οὐκ ἠμνημόνησεν ὁ Λούκουλλος, ἀλλὰ παρελθὼν εἰς τὴν Γορδυηνῶν ταφὰς προὔθετο τοῦ Ζαρβιηνοῦ, καὶ πυρὰν ἐσθῆτι καὶ χρυσῷ βασιλικῷ καὶ τοῖς ἀπὸ Τιγράνου κοσμήσας λαφύροις αὐτὸς παρὼν ὑφῆψε, καὶ χοὰς ἐπήνεγκε μετὰ φίλων καὶ οἰκείων τοῦ ἀνδρός, ἑταῖρον ἑαυτοῦ καὶ Ῥωμαίων σύμμαχον ἀνακαλούμενος

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