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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Fragment 1 line 2

    Melanthius
    αὑτοῦ γὰρ δαπάναισι θεῶν ναοὺς ἀγοράν τε Κεκροπίαν κόσμησ᾽ ἡμιθέων ἀρεταῖς.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE

  • Fragment B2 Line 8

    Critias
    Τυρσηνὴ δὲ κρατεῖ χρυσότυπος φιάλη καὶ πᾶς χαλκὸς ὅτις κοσμεῖ δόμον ἔν τινι χρείᾳ.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE

  • Leukadia, Fragment 686 line 1

    Menander
    <ὑπ>εδεξάμην, ἔτικτον, ἐκτρέφω, φιλῶ. <ἡ> ζάκορος ἡ κοσμοῦσα τὸν ναόν, τέκνον.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 4th century BCE

  • Orations 45.32

    Aelius Aristides
    οὗτος ἄγει Νεῖλον ὥρᾳ θέρους, οὗτος χειμῶνος ἀνακαλεῖ, οὗτος δύο καὶ τετταράκοντα ἱερὰ κατ᾽ Αἴγυπτον, οὗτος πάντας τοὺς ἐν τῇ γῇ νεὼς συνέχει τε καὶ κοσμεῖ, φύλαξ τῶν φανερῶν καὶ τῶν ἀπορρήτων, ἡγεμὼν ἀνθρώπων καὶ δαιμόνων: καὶ ἡμῶν ἤδη μεταστρέψει τὸν λόγον πρὸς αὑτὸν, καὶ προσειποῦσιν ὥρα κατεπαύειν.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 142
    Location: Smyrna

  • Orations 19.10

    Aelius Aristides
    ἐποιήσασθε, ὥστε ἀναλαβεῖν αὐτὰς τοῖς ἅπασιν. ἐκείνας μὲν τοίνυν πάλαι κεκμηκυίας ἀνεκτήσασθε, Σμύρναν δὲ ἀρτίως μὲν ἀνθοῦσαν, ἀρτίως δὲ καταρρυεῖσαν, εἰς πόλεων ἀριθμὸν αὖθις καταστήσατε, πρότερον μὲν τὰ ἱερὰ κοσμήσαντες αὐτῆς, νυνὶ δὲ τὸ πᾶν σχῆμα σώσαντες.

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

  • Orations 21.5

    Aelius Aristides
    ἑώρας ἀγοράν τε θεῶν ἑστίαν καὶ λιμένας, τῇ μὲν κυκλουμένους τὴν πόλιν, τῇ δὲ ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως μέσους ἐχομένους: καὶ ναῶν κάλλη καὶ περιβόλους, ἐξ ἴσου τῇ τε φύσει καὶ τέχνῃ κεκοσμημένα, καὶ πάντα δὴ τὸν κόσμον τῶν ὅρμων ὡς ἐξήρτηντο ἀλλήλων: καὶ τὸ δὴ μέγιστον σύμβολον τῆς πόλεως, τὴν διὰ πάντων ὁμολογίαν καὶ μουσικὴν ἕν τι τὸ πᾶν σῶμα ἀποφαίνουσαν, ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ κατὰ τὸν μῦθον τὸν περὶ τοῦ Θηβαίων τείχους λεγόμενον πρὸς λύραν καὶ κιθάραν ἥρμοστο ἐξ ἀρχῆς.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 179
    Location: Smyrna

  • Orations 32.22

    Aelius Aristides
    ἀνθ᾽ ὧν δικαίως τόν τε τάφον κοσμεῖτε καὶ ὡς ἀρχηγέτην καὶ οἰκιστὴν τιμᾶτε τοῖς πᾶσι τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ ψηφίζεσθε, ἃ τοῖς πρώτοις κτίσασι τὴν πόλιν ὑμῶν.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 150
    Location: Cotiaeum

  • Histories 11.3.5

    Polybius
    ἐπειδὴ δὲ καὶ πλείους ἧκον, οὐ μόνον τὸ γεγονός, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ κατὰ μέρος διασαφοῦντες, τότε δὴ χαρᾶς ὑπερβαλλούσης ἦν ἡ πόλις πλήρης, καὶ πᾶν μὲν τέμενος ἐκοσμεῖτο, πᾶς δὲ ναὸς ἔγεμε πελάνων καὶ θυμάτων,

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

  • Histories 9.27.8-9

    Polybius
    τοῦ γὰρ Ἀκράγαντος ὑπὸ Ῥοδίων ἀπῳκισμένης, εἰκότως ὁ θεὸς οὗτος τὴν αὐτὴν ἔχει προσηγορίαν ἣν καὶ παρὰ τοῖς Ῥοδίοις. κεκόσμηται δὲ καὶ τἄλλα μεγαλοπρεπῶς ἡ πόλις ναοῖς καὶ στοαῖς. καὶ μὴν ὁ τοῦ Διὸς τοῦ Ὀλυμπίου νεὼς παντέλειαν μὲν οὐκ εἴληφε, κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἐπιβολὴν καὶ τὸ μέγεθος οὐδ᾽ ὁποίου τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἑλλάδα δοκεῖ λείπεσθαι.

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

  • Peloponnesian War 6.54.5

    Thucydides
    καὶ ἐπετήδευσαν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον δὴ τύραννοι οὗτοι ἀρετὴν καὶ ξύνεσιν, καὶ Ἀθηναίους εἰκοστὴν μόνον πρασσόμενοι τῶν γιγνομένων τήν τε πόλιν αὐτῶν καλῶς διεκόσμησαν καὶ τοὺς πολέμους διέφερον καὶ ἐς τὰ ἱερὰ ἔθυον.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 431-400
    Location: Athens

  • Critias 117a-b

    Plato
    ταῖς δὲ δὴ κρήναις, τῇ τοῦ ψυχροῦ καὶ τῇ τοῦ θερμοῦ νάματος, πλῆθος μὲν ἄφθονον ἐχούσαις, ἡδονῇ δὲ καὶ ἀρετῇ τῶν ὑδάτων πρὸς ἑκατέρου τὴν χρῆσιν θαυμαστοῦ πεφυκότος, ἐχρῶντο περιστήσαντες οἰκοδομήσεις καὶ δένδρων φυτεύσεις πρεπούσας ὕδασι, δεξαμενάς τε αὖ τὰς μὲν ὑπαιθρίους, τὰς δὲ χειμερινὰς τοῖς θερμοῖς λουτροῖς ὑποστέγους περιτιθέντες, χωρὶς μὲν βασιλικάς, χωρὶς δὲ ἰδιωτικάς, ἔτι δὲ γυναιξὶν ἄλλας καὶ ἑτέρας ἵπποις καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ὑποζυγίοις, τὸ πρόσφορον τῆς κοσμήσεως ἑκάστοις ἀπονέμοντες

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Date: 360

  • Critius 116c-117a

    Plato
    τὰ δὲ δὴ τῆς ἀκροπόλεως ἐντὸς βασίλεια κατεσκευασμένα ὧδ’ ἦν. ἐν μέσῳ μὲν ἱερὸν ἅγιον αὐτόθι τῆς τε Κλειτοῦς καὶ τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος ἄβατον ἀφεῖτο, περιβόλῳ χρυσῷ περιβεβλημένον, τοῦτ’ ἐν ᾧ κατ’ ἀρχὰς ἐφίτυσαν καὶ ἐγέννησαν τὸ τῶν δέκα βασιλειδῶν γένος· ἔνθα καὶ κατ’ ἐνιαυτὸν ἐκ πασῶν τῶν δέκα λήξεων ὡραῖα αὐτόσε ἀπετέλουν ἱερὰ ἐκείνων ἑκάστῳ. τοῦ δὲ Ποσειδῶνος αὐτοῦ νεὼς ἦν, σταδίου μὲν μῆκος, εὖρος δὲ τρίπλεθρος, ὕψος δ’ ἐπὶ τούτοις σύμμετρον ἰδεῖν, εἶδος δέ τι βαρβαρικὸν ἔχοντος. πάντα δὲ ἔξωθεν περιήλειψαν τὸν νεὼν ἀργύρῳ, πλὴν τῶν ἀκρωτηρίων, τὰ δὲ ἀκρωτήρια χρυσῷ· τὰ δ’ ἐντός, τὴν μὲν ὀροφὴν ἐλεφαντίνην ἰδεῖν πᾶσαν χρυσῷ καὶ ἀργύρῳ καὶ ὀρειχάλκῳ πεποικιλμένην, τὰ δὲ ἄλλα πάντα τῶν τοίχων τε καὶ κιόνων καὶ ἐδάφους ὀρειχάλκῳ περιέλαβον. χρυσᾶ δὲ ἀγάλματα ἐνέστησαν, τὸν μὲν θεὸν ἐφ’ ἅρματος ἑστῶτα ἓξ ὑποπτέρων ἵππων ἡνίοχον, αὐτόν τε ὑπὸ μεγέθους τῇ κορυφῇ τῆς ὀροφῆς ἐφαπτόμενον, Νηρῇδας δὲ ἐπὶ δελφίνων ἑκατὸν κύκλῳ— τοσαύτας γὰρ ἐνόμιζον αὐτὰς οἱ τότε εἶναι—πολλὰ δ’ ἐντὸς ἄλλα ἀγάλματα ἰδιωτῶν ἀναθήματα ἐνῆν. περὶ δὲ τὸν νεὼν ἔξωθεν εἰκόνες ἁπάντων ἕστασαν ἐκ χρυσοῦ, τῶν γυναικῶν καὶ αὐτῶν ὅσοι τῶν δέκα ἐγεγόνεσαν βασιλέων, καὶ πολλὰ ἕτερα ἀναθήματα μεγάλα τῶν τε βασιλέων καὶ ἰδιωτῶν ἐξ αὐτῆς τε τῆς πόλεως καὶ τῶν ἔξωθεν ὅσων ἐπῆρχον. βωμός τε δὴ συνεπόμενος ἦν τὸ μέγεθος καὶ τὸ τῆς ἐργασίας ταύτῃ τῇ κατασκευῇ, καὶ τὰ βασίλεια κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ πρέποντα μὲν τῷ τῆς ἀρχῆς μεγέθει, πρέποντα δὲ τῷ περὶ τὰ ἱερὰ κόσμῳ.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century BCE
    Date: 360