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  IG I³ 953

  Unknown

  [ἀ]ρρήτο τελετῆς πρόπολος σῆς, πότνια Δηοῖ, /καὶ θυγατρὸς προθύρο κόσμον ἄγαλμα τόδε /ἔστησεν στεφάνω {²⁷Pritchett: στεφανὼ Maas}²⁷ Λυσιστράτη, οὐδὲ παρόντων /φείδεται, ἀλλὰ θεοῖς ἄφθονος ἐς δύναμιν.

  Text Category: Inscription: base

  Century Range: 5th century BCE

  Date: third quarter

  Location: Athens: Eleusinion

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  IG II² 4963

  Unknown

  [τὸ τέμενος πᾶν ἐ]πὶ Θεα[γγέλ]-[ο ἱερέως σηκῶι] π̣εριεβλ[ήθη][καὶ ․․․․9․․․․] ἐπετελέσθ[η]·[ἀνετέθη δὲ καὶ] ἡ τράπεζα, ἣν[κοσμοῦσιν τῶι] Ἀσκληπιῶι (21)[οἱ ἱεροποιο̑ντ]ες vac. vac.

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 4th century BCE

  Date: first half

  Location: Athens: Akropolis

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  IG II² 1534 B

  Unknown

  [ἱερέως τοῦ Ἀσκληπιοῦ καὶ τοῦ δημοσίου] μετὰ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ τοῦ [ἐπὶ τὴν παρασκευὴν ἐξετάσουσι τοὺς τύπους καὶ εἴ τι ἄλλο ἐστὶν ἀργυροῦν][ἢ χρυσοῦν· ποιῆσαι δὲ καὶ τράπεζαν πρ]ὸς κόσμον τοῦ ἱεροῦ, ἀναθεῖ[ναι δέ — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —][— — — — — — — — — — — — τ]ῶι ἱερεῖ ἢ τοῖς θύουσιν καὶ δεῖ[ν? — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —]

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 3rd century BCE

  Date: 247-247 or 232-231

  Location: Athens: Asklepieion

• IG II² 1328

  Unknown

  θρόνους δύο [ὡς] καλλίστους, περιτιθέναι δὲ ταῖς φιαληφόροις καὶ τ[α]ῖ[ς πε]-ρὶ τὴν θεὸν οὔσαις ἐν τῶι ἀγερμ[ῶ]ι κόσμον ἀρ[γυροῦ]ν· [ἐὰ]ν [δ]ὲ παρὰ ταῦ-τα ποιεῖ, κύριοι ἔ[σ]τωσαν οἱ ὀργεῶνες ζημιοῦντε[ς τὴ]ν [π]α[ρ]αβαίνουσά[ν]

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 2nd century BCE

  Date: 183-182

  Location: Athens: Piraeus

• IG II² 1213

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  — στέφανον καὶ κόσμον —— τοὺς βωμοὺς καὶ ξύλα —— ταῖς ἀρχούσαις — — — —— παρὰ τῶν τρικώμων — —— ἀργυρίου 𐅃𐅂 δραχμ — —— τὸν τρικώμαρχ[ον  — —]— τὸν δῆμον — — — — — —

  Text Category: Inscription

  Location: Athens: Erchia; Athens: Spata

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  IG II² 1102

  Unknown

  ἴστε ὡς πάσαις χρῶμαι προφάσεσιν τοῦ εὐ ποιεῖν καὶδημοσίᾳ τὴν πόλιν καὶ ἰδίᾳ Ἀθηναίων τινάς· τοῖς παισὶνὑμῶν τοῖς̣ [τε νέοις τὸ γυμνάσ]ιον δίδωμι πρὸς τῷ κόσμ-ον̣ [γενέσθαι τῇ πόλει καὶ ․․ τ]άλαντα ἐπι[δίδω]-[μι

  Text Category: Inscription

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Date: 131-132

  Location: Athens

• Epitome, 1.37.6

  Florus

  … dimicaverant locis saxeas erexere turres, et desuper exornata armis hostilibus tropaea fixerunt ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome (or possibly Roman Spain)

• Epitome, 1.11.7

  Florus

  … gentem, si opulentiam quaeras, aureis et argenteis armis et discolori veste usque ad ambitum ornatam

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome (or possibly Roman Spain)

• Bellum civile, 3.511

  Lucan

  … Non robore picto/ Ornatas decuit fulgens tutela carinas/ ...

  Text Category: Literature: verse

  Century Range: 1st century CE

  Location: Rome

• Epigrammata, 3.19.1-2

  Martial

  Proxima centenis ostenditur ursa columnis,/ exornant fictae qua platanona ferae.

  Text Category: Literature: verse

  Century Range: 1st century CE

  Location: Rome

• Ars amatoria, 3.231-232

  Ovid

  Aurea quae splendent ornato signa theatro,/ Inspice, contemnes: brattea ligna tegit

  Text Category: Literature: verse

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• Ars amatoria, 1.407

  Ovid

  Sive erit ornatus non ut fuit ante sigillis,/ Sed regum positas Circus habebit opes ...

  Text Category: Literature: verse

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• Fasti, 1.203

  Ovid

  frondibus ornabant quae nunc Capitolia gemmis

  Text Category: Literature: verse

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• Elegiae, 3.9.15

  Propertius

  Phidiacus signo se Iuppiter ornat eburno

  Text Category: Literature: verse

  Century Range: 1st century BCE

  Location: Rome

• Metamorphoses, 11.3

  Apuleius

  … spicis etiam Cerialibus desuper porrectis ornata.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Florida, 22 (.5)

  Apuleius

  … domus amplo ornata vestibulo ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• De deo Socratis, 22 (3-5)

  Apuleius

  Plane quidem villas opipare exstruunt et domos ditissime exornant et familias numerosissime comparant. Sed in istis omnibus tanta affluentia rerum nihil est praeterquam ipse dominus pudendum, nec iniuria: cumulata enim habent, quae sedulo percolunt, ipsi autem horridi, indocti incultique circumeunt. 4Igitur illa spectes, in quae patrimonia sua profuderunt: amoenissima et exstructissima et ornatissima deprehendas, villas aemulas urbium conditas, domus vice templorum exornatas, familias numerosissimas et calamistratas, opiparam supellectilem, omnia affluentia, omnia opulentia, omnia ornata praeter ipsum dominum,

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Apologia, 93 (.4)

  Apuleius

  … grandem domum opulente ornatam ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Apologia, 22 (.3)

  Apuleius

  … villas ornatissimas una perula mutavit ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Noctes Atticae, 15.31.1

  Aulus Gellius

  Rodum insulam celebritatis antiquissimae oppidumque in ea pulcherrimum ornatissimumque obsidebat obpugnabatque Demetrius ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Noctes Atticae, 15.8.2

  Aulus Gellius

  … quando stratus lectus auro, argento, purpura amplior aliquot hominibus quam dis inmortalibus adornatur?”

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Noctes Atticae, 13.25.9

  Aulus Gellius

  “Quod auri, quod argenti, quod ornamentorum in meis urbibus, sedibus, delubris fuit.”

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• Noctes Atticae, 4.16.8

  Aulus Gellius

  Isti, quorum in aedibus fanisque posita et honori erant et ornatu ...

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• De vita Caesarum: Titus, 8.4

  Suetonius

  Urbis incendio nihil publice nisi periisse testatus, cuncta praetoriorum suorum ornamenta operibus ac templis destinavit praeposuitque …

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome

• De vita Caesarum: Vitellius, 5.1

  Suetonius

  at in urbano officio dona atque ornamenta templorum subripuisse et commutasse quaedam ferebatur proque auro et argento stagnum et aurichalcum supposuisse.

  Text Category: Literature: prose

  Century Range: 2nd century CE

  Location: Rome