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  • Geography 14.2.25

    Strabo
    Στρατονίκεια δ᾽ ἐστὶ κατοικία Μακεδόνων: ἐκοσμήθη δὲ καὶ αὕτη κατασκευαῖς πολυτελέσιν ὑπὸ τῶν βασιλέων.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
    Location: Rome or Alexandria

  • Geography 14.2.23

    Strabo
    τὰ δὲ Μύλασα ἵδρυται ἐν πεδίῳ σφόδρα εὐδαίμονι: ὑπέρκειται δὲ κατὰ κορυφὴν ὄρος αὐτοῦ, λατόμιον λευκοῦ λίθου κάλλιστον ἔχον: τοῦτο μὲν οὖν ὄφελός ἐστιν οὐ μικρόν, τὴν λιθείαν πρὸς τὰς οἰκοδομίας ἄφθονον καὶ ἐγγύθεν ἔχον καὶ μάλιστα πρὸς τὰς τῶν ἱερῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων δημοσίων ἔργων κατασκευάς: τοιγάρτοι στοαῖς τε καὶ ναοῖς εἴ τις ἄλλη κεκόσμηται παγκάλως.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
    Location: Rome or Alexandria

  • Geography 12.3.14

    Strabo
    ὁ δ᾽ Εὐπάτωρ ἐκόσμησεν ἱεροῖς καὶ προσέκτισε μέρος.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 1st century BCE/ 1st century CE
    Location: Rome or Alexandria

  • On the Judaean War 6.241

    Flavius Josephus
    ὁ δὲ Τίτος οὐδ’ ἂν ἐπιβάντες ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ πολεμῶσιν Ἰουδαῖοι φήσας ἀντὶ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἀμυνεῖσθαι τὰ ἄψυχα οὐδὲ καταφλέξειν ποτὲ τηλικοῦτον ἔργον· Ῥωμαίων γὰρ ἔσεσθαι τὴν βλάβην, ὥσπερ καὶ κόσμον τῆς ἡγεμονίας αὐτοῦ μένοντος

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

  • Antiquities of the Jews 15.364

    Flavius Josephus
    σπήλαιον ἐν ὄρει περικαλλές ἐστιν, ὑπ᾽ αὐτὸ δὲ γῆς ὀλίσθημα καὶ βάθος ἀπερρωγὸς ἄβατον ὕδατος ἀκινήτου πλέον, καθύπερθε δ᾽ ὄρος παμμέγεθες, ὑπὸ δὲ τὸ σπήλαιον ἀνατέλλουσιν αἱ πηγαὶ τοῦ Ἰορδάνου ποταμοῦ. τοῦτον ἐπισημότατον ὄντα τὸν τόπον καὶ τῷ ναῷ προσεκόσμησεν, ὃν ἀφιέρου Καίσαρι.

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

  • Antiquities of the Jews 14.76

    Flavius Josephus
    αὶ ταύτας μὲν ἐν τῇ μεσογείῳ χωρὶς τῶν κατεσκαμμένων, Γάζαν δὲ πρὸς τῇ θαλάττῃ καὶ Ἰόππην καὶ Δῶρα καὶ Στράτωνος πύργον, ἣ κτίσαντος αὐτὴν Ἡρώδου μεγαλοπρεπῶς καὶ λιμέσιν τε καὶ ναοῖς κοσμήσαντος, Καισάρεια μετωνομάσθη, πάσας ὁ Πομπήιος ἀφῆκεν ἐλευθέρας καὶ προσένειμεν τῇ ἐπαρχίᾳ.

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

  • Antiquities of the Jews 9.93

    Flavius Josephus
    τὴν δ᾽ ἀρχὴν αὐτὸς παρέλαβε δραστήριός τε ὢν ἀνὴρ καὶ πολλὴν ἔχων παρὰ τῶν Σύρων εὔνοιαν καὶ τοῦ δήμου τῶν Δαμασκηνῶν, ὑφ᾽ οὗ μέχρι νῦν αὐτός τε ὁ Ἄδερ καὶ Ἀζάηλος ὁ μετ᾽ αὐτὸν ἄρξας ὡς θεοὶ τιμῶνται διὰ τὰς εὐεργεσίας καὶ τῶν ναῶν οἰκοδομίας, οἷς ἐκόσμησαν τὴν τῶν Δαμασκηνῶν πόλιν.

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

  • Library 17.52.3

    Diodorus Siculus
    ἀπὸ γὰρ πύλης ἐπὶ πύλην διήκουσα τεσσαράκοντα μὲν σταδίων ἔχει τὸ μῆκος, πλέθρου δὲ τὸ πλάτος, οἰκιῶν δὲ καὶ ἱερῶν πολυτελέσι κατασκευαῖς πᾶσα κεκόσμηται.

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

  • TAM II 799

    Zosimos son of Eutyches
    Ζώ<σ>ιμ̣ο<ς> Εὐτυ<χ>έου<ς> Ν̣ομίῳ <υ>ἱῷ <Ἀ>ρ<υ>[καν]δεὺς τύμβον ἑαῖς παλάμαις <χ>ῶ<σε?> καθο<ι>[χ]<ο>μέν[ῳ], οὐρ̣α<νί>ο<ις ὃς> πατρίδ’ <ἑὴν κ>όσ<μησε> πόνο<ισ>ιν <ν>αοδόμο<υ> τέχν̣[ης] ἐργ̣<ασί>ας τελέσας. πρῶτο<ν> Ἀθ<η>[ναίης ἅγι]ο̣[ν] <ν>αὸ̣[ν περί]σημ[ον] [σ]τ̣ῆ<σε> χαρι[ζόμενος τ]ῇδε πάτρῃ δαπάνας

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Location: Lycia: Arykanda

  • De vita Caesarum 2: Augustus, 29.4

    Suetonius
    Sed et ceteros principes viros saepe hortatus est, ut pro facultate quisque monimentis vel novis vel refectis et excultis urbem adornarent.

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

  • De vita Caesarum 1: Julius, 44.1

    Suetonius
    Nam de ornanda instruendaque urbe, item de tuendo ampliandoque imperio plura ac maiora in dies destinabat: in primis Martis templum quantum nusquam esset, exstruere repleto et conplanato lacu, in quo naumachiae spectaculum ediderat, theatrumque summae magnitudinis Tarpeio monti accubans;

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

  • Historiae Romanae, 2.89.4

    Velleius Paterculus
    Principes viri triumphisque et amplissimis honoribus functi adhortatu principis ad ornandam urbem inlecti sunt.

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

  • De architectura, 7.5.2

    Vitruvius
    ... ambulationibus vero propter spatia longitudinis varietatibus topiorum ornarent a certis locorum proprietatibus imagines exprimentes; pinguntur enim portus, promunturia, litora, flumina, fontes, euripi, fana, luci, montes, pecora, pastores.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.2.86 (35)

    Cicero
    hi se patrum fortunam ac dignitatem recuperare arbitrabantur cum illa maiorum ornamenta in eorum oppido collocabantur.

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

  • De lege agraria, 2.76 (28)

    Cicero
    At enim ager Campanus hac lege dividetur orbi terrae pulcherrimus, et Capuam colonia deducetur, urbem amplissimam atque ornatissimam

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

  • Ab urbe condita, 40.5.7

    Livy
    … alii speciem ipsius urbis nondum exornatae neque publicis neque privatis locis ...

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