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  • Cicero

    Rome
    Latin

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

  • Periplus Section 112 line 54

    Pseudo-Scylax
    Οἱ Αἰθίοπες χρῶνται κόσμῳ * στίκτοις, καὶ ἐκπώμασι τοῦ ἐλέφαντος φιάλαις • καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν χρῶνται κόσμῳ ψελίοις τοῦ ἐλέφαντος • χρῶνται δὲ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἵππους ἐλεφαντίνῳ κόσμῳ.

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

  • Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 399

    Hecataeus of Abdera
    ἀκόλουθον δὲ τῇ μεγαλοπρεπείᾳ ταύτῃ καὶ τὸν ἐν αὐτῷ κόσμον τῶν ἀναθημάτων γενέσθαι, τῇ τε δαπάνῃ θαυμαστὸν καὶ τῇ χειρουργίᾳ περιττῶς εἰργασμένον

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

  • Hist. Abderita, Fragmenta, Fragment 25 line 395

    Hecataeus of Abdera
    ἀναθήμασί τε γὰρ πολλοῖς καὶ μεγάλοις ἀργυροῖς καὶ χρυσοῖς, ἔτι δ᾿ ἐλεφαντίνοις, καὶ κολοττικῶν ἀνδριάντων πλήθει, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις κατασκευαῖς μονολίθων ὀβελίσκων μηδεμίαν τῶν 2ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον οὕτω κεκοσμῆσθαι.

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

  • 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

  • Historiae Romaae 75.5.3

    Cassius Dio
    ὁ δ᾿ αὐτοκράτωρ ἐφ᾿ ἅπασιν εἵπετο, καὶ οὕτως ἐς τὸ Ἄρειον πεδίον ἀφικόμεθα. ἐπεσκεύαστο δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ πυρὰ πυργοειδὴς τρίβολος, ἐλέφαντι καὶ χρυσῷ μετὰ ἀνδριάντων τινῶν κεκοσμημένη, καὶ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς τῆς ἄκρας ἅρμα ἐπίχρυσον, ὅπερ ὁ Περτίναξ ἤλαυνεν.

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

  • Historiae Romanae 56.34.1

    Cassius Dio
    κλίνη ἦν ἔκ τε ἐλέφαντος καὶ χρυσοῦ πεποιημένη καὶ στρώμασιν ἁλουργοῖς διαχρύσοις κεκοσμημένη

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

  • De cupiditate divitiarum 9

    Plutarch
    τί λέγεις, ἀβέλτερ᾽, ὃς τῆς γυναικὸς ὀφείλων παρελεῖν τὴν πορφύραν καὶ τὸν κόσμον, ἵνα παύσηται τρυφῶσα καὶ ξενομανοῦσα, τὴν οἰκίαν πάλιν καλλωπίζεις ὡς θέατρον ἢ θυμέλην τοῖς εἰσιοῦσι;

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

  • 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

  • Geography 1.2.31-32

    Strabo
    φησὶ δὴ πρὸς Τηλέμαχον ὁ Μενέλαος θαυμάσαντα τὸν τῶν βασιλείων κόσμον… ἅμα μὲν γὰρ θαυμάζουσι τοῦ κόσμου τῶν βασιλείων οἱ περὶ Τηλέμαχον τὸ πλῆθος ὅ ἐστι ‘χρυσοῦ τ᾽ ἠλέκτρου τε καὶ ἀργύρου ἠδ᾽ ἐλέφαντος.’

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

  • Description of Greece 5.20.1

    Pausanias
    ἔστι δὲ ἐνταῦθα καὶ ἄλλα ἀναθήματα, κλίνη τε μέγεθος οὐ μεγάλη, τὰ πολλὰ ἐλέφαντι κεκοσμημένη

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

  • Description of Greece 2.7.5

    Pausanias
    ταῦτα μιᾷ καθ’ ἕκαστον ἔτος νυκτὶ ἐς τὸ Διονύσιον ἐκ τοῦ καλουμένου κοσμητηρίου κομίζουσι, κομίζουσι δὲ μετὰ δᾴδων τε ἡμμένων καὶ ὕμνων ἐπιχωρίων.

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

  • Description of Greece 1.40.4

    Pausanias
    ὄπισθε δὲ τοῦ ναοῦ κεῖται ξύλα ἡμίεργα: ταῦτα ἔμελλεν ὁ Θεόκοσμος ἐλέφαντι καὶ χρυσῷ κοσμήσας τὸ ἄγαλμα ἐκτελέσειν τοῦ Διός.

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

  • Description of Greece 1.12.4

    Pausanias
    ἐλέφαντα γάρ, ὅσος μὲν ἐς ἔργα καὶ ἀνδρῶν χεῖρας, εἰσὶν ἐκ παλαιοῦ δῆλοι πάντες εἰδότες: αὐτὰ δὲ τὰ θηρία, πρὶν ἢ διαβῆναι Μακεδόνας ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀσίαν, οὐδὲ ἑωράκεσαν ἀρχὴν πλὴν Ἰνδῶν τε αὐτῶν καὶ Λιβύων καὶ ὅσοι πλησιόχωροι τούτοις. δηλοῖ δὲ Ὅμηρος, ὃς βασιλεῦσι κλίνας μὲν καὶ οἰκίας τοῖς εὐδαιμονεστέροις αὐτῶν ἐλέφαντι ἐποίησε κεκοσμημένας, θηρίου δὲ ἐλέφαντος μνήμην οὐδεμίαν ἐποιήσατο:

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Rhetorica ad Herennium, 4.60 (47)

    Unknown (traditionally Cicero)
    … citharam tenens exornatissimam auro et ebore distinctam ...

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

  • In Verrem, 2.5.184 (72)

    Cicero
    teque, Iuno Regina, cuius duo fana duabus in insulis posita sociorum, Melitae et Sami, sanctissima et antiquissima, simili scelere idem iste omnibus donis ornamentisque nudavit;

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.124 (56)

    Cicero
    Itaque eius modi valvas reliquit ut quae olim ad ornandum templum erant maxime nunc tantum ad claudendum factae esse videantur.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)

    Cicero
    Et Marcellus qui, si Syracusas cepisset, duo templa se Romae dedicaturum voverat, is id quod erat aedificaturus iis rebus ornare quas ceperat noluit;

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)

    Cicero
    Ille deos deorum spoliis ornari noluit, hic ornamenta Minervae virginis in meretriciam domum transtulit.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.123 (55)

    Cicero
    Ac videte quanto taetrior hic tyrannus Syracusanis fuerit quam quisquam superiorum, quia, cum illi tamen ornarint templa deorum immortalium, hic etiam illorum monumenta atque ornamenta sustulit.

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

  • In Verrem, 2.4.103 (46)

    Cicero
    Erat praeterea magna vis eboris, multa ornamenta, in quibus eburneae Victoriae antiquo opere ac summa arte perfectae.

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