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  • 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 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

  • On Idolatry 8.1-3

    Tertullian
    Nec enim differt, an extruas vel exornes, si templum, si aram, si aediculam eius instruxeris, si bratteam expresseris aut insignia aut etiam domum fabricaveris. Maior est eiusmodi opera, quae non effigiem confert, sed auctoritatem. Si ita necessitas exhibitionis extenditur, habent et alias species, quae sine exorbitatione disciplinae id est sine idoli confictura opem victus praestent. Scit albarius tector et tecta sarcire et tectoria inducere et cisternam liare et cymatia distendere et multa alia ornamenta ||f110 praeter simulacra parietibus incrispare. Scit et pictor et marmorarius et aerarius et quicumque caelator latitudines suas et utique multo faciliores.

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

  • Against Marcion 22.4

    Tertullian
    Sic et cherubin et seraphin aurea in arcae figuratum exemplum; certe simplex ornamentum.

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

  • 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

  • Iphigenia in Tauris 632-635

    Euripides
    πολύν τε γάρ σοι κόσμον ἐνθήσω τάφῳ, ξανθῷ τ᾽ ἐλαίῳ σῶμα σὸν κατασβέσω, καὶ τῆς ὀρείας ἀνθεμόρρυτον γάνος ξουθῆς μελίσσης ἐς πυρὰν βαλῶ σέθεν.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 414-412
    Location: Athens

  • Orestes 607-611

    Euripides
    ἐπεὶ θρασύνῃ κοὐχ ὑποστέλλῃ λόγῳ, οὕτω δ᾽ ἀμείβῃ μ᾽ ὥστε μ᾽ ἀλγῆσαι φρένα, μᾶλλόν μ᾽ ἀνάξεις ἐπὶ σὸν ἐξελθεῖν φόνον: καλὸν πάρεργον δ᾽ αὐτὸ θήσομαι πόνων ὧν εἵνεκ᾽ ἦλθον θυγατρὶ κοσμήσων τάφον.

    Text Category: Literature: poetry
    Century Range: 5th century BCE
    Date: 408
    Location: Athens

  • Oration 1.16.C-D

    Julian
    Γενόμενος δὲ ἐφ᾿ ἡλικίας, καὶ τῷ πατρὶ τὴν εἱμαρμένην τελευτὴν τοῦ δαίμονος μάλα ὀλβίαν παρασχόντος, οὐ μόνον τῷ πλήθει καὶ κάλλει τῶν ἐπενεχθέντων τὸν τάφον ἐκόσμεις, γενέσεως καὶ τροφῆς ἀποτίνων τὰ χαριστήρια, πολὺ δὲ πλέον τῷ μόνος ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐκείνου παίδων ζῶντος μὲν ἔτι καὶ πιεζομένου τῇ νόσῳ πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁρμῆσαι, τελευτήσαντος δὲ τὰς μεγίστας τιμὰς καταστῆσαι, ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐξαρκεῖ καὶ τὸ μνησθῆναι.

    Text Category: Literature: prose
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 356-357

  • Historiae Romanae 62.5.6

    Cassius Dio
    καὶ τὸ θέατρον, οὐχ ὅτι ἡ σκηνὴ ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ περιφέρεια αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἔνδοθεν ἐκεχρύσωτο, καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα ἐσῄει χρυσῷ ἐκεκόσμητο· ἀφ᾿ οὗ καὶ τὴν ἡμέραν αὐτὴν χρυσῆν ἐπωνόμασαν

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

  • Historiae Romanae 62.12.3

    Cassius Dio
    ὡς δὲ ἥ τε ναῦς ἐγεγόνει καὶ ἡ Ἀγριππῖνα ἐτεθεράπευτο (πάντα γὰρ τρόπον ἐκολάκευεν αὐτήν, ἵνα μή τι ὑποτοπήσασα φυλάξηται), ἐν μὲν τῇ Ῥώμῃ οὐδὲν ἐτόλμησε ποιῆσαι, μὴ καὶ ἐκδημοσιευθῇ τὸ μίασμα, πόρρω δὲ ἐς τὴν Καμπανίαν ἀπάρας καὶ παραλαβὼν τὴν μητέρα ἔπλευσεν ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς ἐκείνης τῆς νεὼς λαμπρότατα κεκοσμημένης, ὡς καὶ ἐπιθυμίαν αὐτῇ ἐμβαλεῖν ἀεί ποτε τῇ νηὶ χρῆσθαι.

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

  • Vita decem oratorum 8

    Plutarch
    τῶν δ᾽ Ἀθηναίων ψηφισαμένων οἷς ὤφειλε τριάκοντα ταλάντοις κοσμῆσαι αὐτὸν τὸν βωμὸν τοῦ σωτῆρος Διὸς ἐν Πειραιεῖ καὶ ἀφεῖσθαι, τοῦτο γράψαντος τὸ ψήφισμα Δήμωνος Παιανιέως, ὃς ἦν ἀνεψιὸς αὐτῷ, πάλιν ἐπὶ τούτοις ἦν πολιτευόμενος.

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

  • De Iside et Osiride 38

    Plutarch
    τῶν τ᾽ ἄστρων τὸν σείριον Ἴσιδος νομίζουσιν, ὑδραγωγὸν ὄντα. καὶ τὸν λέοντα τιμῶσι καὶ χάσμασι λεοντείοις τὰ τῶν ἱερῶν θυρώματα κοσμοῦσιν, ὅτι πλημμυρεῖ Νεῖλος ἠελίου τὰ πρῶτα συνερχομένοιο λέοντι

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

  • Alexander 72.3

    Plutarch
    τύμβον δὲ καὶ ταφὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν περὶ ταῦτα κόσμον ἀπὸ μυρίων ταλάντων ἐπιτελέσαι διανοούμενος, ὑπερβαλέσθαι δὲ τῷ φιλοτέχνῳ καὶ περιττῷ τῆς κατασκευῆς τὴν δαπάνην, ἐπόθησε μάλιστα τῶν τεχνιτῶν Στασικράτην, μεγαλουργίαν τινὰ καὶ τόλμαν καὶ κόμπον ἐν ταῖς καινοτομίαις ἐπαγ γελλόμενον.

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

  • ZPE-153-252 = AE 2005, 01696

    Unknown
    D(is) M(anibus) / Publicius / Heracla / v(ixit) a(nnos) LXXXXV / h(ic) s(itus) e(st) // D(is) M(anibus) / Publicia / Vitalis / marita / rarissima / v(ixit) a(nnos) / XXXXIII / h(ic) s(ita) e(st) // Salvis dd(ominis) nn(ostris) / Honorio et Theodosio / p(er)p(etuis) semper Augustis / Caesius Aufidianus / Polybius v(ir) c(larissimus) p(rimi) o(rdinis) c(omes) agens / vicariam praef(ecturam) praet(orio) / curia(m) ornavit

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 5th century CE
    Date: 407-408
    Location: Numidia: Cirta

  • ILAlg-01, 02243 = CLE 02268

    Unknown
    CVNIC[3] / Iuliu[s 3] / MERIDIA[3]MAXI[3] / ETAGAN[3]NS[3] / E[3]EVO[3]AVISV[3] / INCI[3]S[3] / [3]ATAVP[3]AFR[3]INV[3] / IM cum [3] ann[i]s vixeri[t] / dignus CI[3] patiens[q(ue)] / [lab]oris industrius liber[alis] / et quaerere felix ADOI[3] / [3]N con(i)uge sanctus NO[3] / [3]AII orn[a]vit omn[i] RE[3] / uxor cara tib[i] tumulum [3] / sanctamq(ue) cineris serv[

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Location: Africa Proconsularis: Madauros

  • IDR-03-02, 00004 = FVSarmiz 00040 = AE 1977, 00667 = AE 1982, 00831 = AE 2006, 01154

    Unknown
    ] / August[alis col(oniae) D]ac(icae) Sarm(izegetusae) / aed[em] ope[re tect]orio et pic/turis item sca[lis sigi]llis et linteis / exornavit it[em can]delabra ae/rea duo colleg[io dedit dedicavit]q[ue]

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 161-192
    Location: Dacia: Sarmizegetusa

  • ICUR-10, 26673 = ILCV +01985

    Unknown
    [Sepulchrum sanc]ti m[artyris] / [Yacinthi Leopardus pr(es)b(yter) ornavit] / [depos(itus) III Id(us) Sep(tembres)]

    Text Category: Inscription: base
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 384-401
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-09, 23754c = ICUR-04, 09369 = AE 2007, +00205

    Unknown
    Martyris hic Mauri tumulus pia membra retentat / quem Damasus rector longo post tempore plebis / ornavit supplex cultu meliore decorans / insontem puerum qui poena nulla deiectus

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 366-384
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-09, 23751

    Unknown
    Sanctorum quicumq(ue) legis venerare sepulcrum / nomina nec numerum potuit retinere vetustas / ornavit Damasus tumulum cognoscite rector / pro reditu cleri Christo pr(a)estante triumphans / martyribus sanctis reddit sua vota sacerdos

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 366-384
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-08, 20758 = ILCV 01769b

    Unknown
    [Mar]tyre Agneti potitus ser<v=B>us dei ornavit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: last quarter
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-06, 15762

    Unknown
    Haec quicumque vides nimio perfecta labore / desine mirari minus est quam martyr habetur / hic aetate puer rudibus iam victor in annis / tempore sub pauco matura laude triumphans / aspera innocuo maculavit tela cruore / et sitiens tenero suxit sibi sanguine(m) praedo / sic victor superas auras regumque petivit / et nos caelesti placidus de sede revisit / nomine Gordianus Christi quem palma coronat / marmore concludens arcam cineresque beatos / presbyter ornavit renovans Vincentius ultro

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: final quarter
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • ICUR-02, 04749 = ILCV 02907

    Unknown
    Bene merenti Elio Olimpio quiescet in pace obitum fecit / die III Kal(en)d(as) Iulias depositus die Kal(en)d(is) s(upra) s(cripto) cons(ulibus) Antonio / et S<y=>agrio vv(iris) cc(larissimis) cons(ulibus) / itemque bene merenti fili(a)e Eli(a)e Malloni(a)e quiescet / in pace obitum fecit die VIIII Kal(en)d(a)s Decembres deposita / die Kal(en)d(i)s s(upra) s(cripto) cons(ulibus) dd(ominis) nn(ostris) Arcadio III et Honorio II AAuu[gg(ustis)] / cons(ulibus) locum a fundamentibus marmore ab im[o] / adornavit socero et coniugi su(a)e Victor

    Text Category: Inscription: epitaph
    Century Range: 4th century CE
    Date: 394
    Location: Latium: Rome

  • IAM-02-02, 00833 = IAM-S, 00833

    Unknown
    D(is) M(anibus) s(acrum) / Sextilia Aemilia / coniunx Iuli / Crescentis vix(it) / ann(os) LXX Sextil(ius) / Hon(oratus) matri pien/ti et pi(i)ssim(a)e or/[navit] et fecit

    Text Category: Inscription
    Location: Mauretania Tingitana: Volubilis

  • Fano 00007 = AE 1983, 00380 = AE 1999, +00602

    Unknown
    [C(aius) Cupp]ienus C(ai) f(ilius) Pol(lia) / [Terminalis] praef(ectus) coh(ortis) III Bracarum [in Syr(ia) Pal]aes(tina) praef(ectus) fab(rum) archit(ectus) / signum m[armor(eum) ex v(oto) t]estam(ento) fieri / poniq(ue) iuss(it) / nomine suo et O[ctavia]e Pollae uxoris ex HS X / Octavia Cn(aei) f(ilia) Pol[la] acc(epto) loc(o) d(ecreto) d(ecurionum) ex pec(unia) / sua sc<u=O>l(ptis) marmor(ibus) et lacun(aribus) ceteroq(ue) opere adorn(avit)

    Text Category: Inscription
    Century Range: 2nd century CE
    Date: 131-170
    Location: Umbria: Pisaurum