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“οὐδὲ τερπνὸν ἐν αὐτῇ τὸ κομιδῇ μυθῶδες.”
Lucian (120–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 59.10 (tr. T. Francklin, 1780)
“The power of the Logos, having in itself a faculty to foresee future events, not as fated, but as taking place by the choice of free agents, foretold from time to time the issues of things to come; it also became a forbidder of wickedness by means of prohibitions, and the encomiast of those who remained good.”
Tatian (120–173) said by 173 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lascivus versu, mente pudicus eras.”
Hadrian (76–138) said by 138 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On a Poet Friend", in Apuleius, Apologia, sec. 11 (tr. J. W. Duff, 1934)
“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”
Bartholomew the Apostle (101 BC–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Accessi confinium mortis et calcato Proserpinae limine per omnia vectus elementa remeavi, nocte media vidi solem candido coruscantem lumine, deos inferos et deos superos accessi coram et adoravi de proximo.”
Apuleius (125–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.”
Pliny the Younger (61–113) said by 113 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The earth bore thee, the sea destroyed thee, and Pluto’s seat received thee, and thence thou didst ascend to heaven. Thou didst not perish in the deep, Pamphilus, as one shipwrecked, but in order to add an ornament to the domains of all the immortals.”
Pamphilus of Alexandria (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O wonder beyond wonders, rapture, power, and amazement is it, that one can say nothing at all about the gospel, nor even conceive of it, nor compare it with anything.”
Marcion of Sinope (85–160) said by 160 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Possibly the opening lines of Marcion's Antithesis. Quoted in Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle (2006) by Joseph B. Tyson, p. 31.
“Let your accusations be few in number, even if they be just.”
Pope Sixtus I (42–126) said by 126 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“καταμάθετε δὲ τοὺς ἑτεροδοξοῦντας εἰς τὴν χάριν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ τὴν εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐλθοῦσαν, πῶς ἐναντίοι εἰσὶν τῇ γνώμῃ τοῦ θεοῦ. περὶ ἀγάπης οὐ μέλει αὐτοῖς, οὐ περὶ χήρας, οὐ περὶ ὀρφανοῦ, οὐ περὶ θλιβομένου, οὐ περὶ δεδεμένου ἢ λελυμένου,οὐ περὶ πεινῶντος ἢ διψῶντος.”
Ignatius of Antioch (35–108) said by 108 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 6:6-7, as translated by B. D. Ehrman, The Apostolic Fathers, Loeb Classical Library (2003), p. 303
“They say that these were the tribes collected by Amphiktyon himself in the Greek Assembly: … the Macedonians joined and the entire Phocian race … In my day there were thirty members: six each from Nikopolis, Macedonia and Thessaly...”
Pausanias (110–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Der Anfang des rechten Lebens ist, wie wir glauben, das rechte Hören." - Moralia I, Über das Zuhören, Kapitel 18 (Schlußsatz)”
Plutarch (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote:de, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Antipater, now undisputed heir, had called down on his head the utter loathing of the nation, for everyone knew that all the slanders directed against his brothers had originated with him.”
Flavius Josephus (37–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Artificis naturae ingens opus aspice.”
Lucilius Junior (6–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pray for all the saints. Pray also for kings, and potentates, and princes, and for those that persecute and hate you, and for the enemies of the cross, that your fruit may be manifest to all, and that ye may be perfect in Him.”
Polycarp (69–155) said by 155 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tiberii Gaique et Claudii ac Neronis res florentibus ipsis ob metum falsae, postquam occiderant, recentibus odiis compositae sunt. inde consilium mihi pauca de Augusto et extrema tradere, mox Tiberii principatum et cetera, sine ira et studio, quorum causas procul habeo.”
Tacitus (55–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“(After taking Paul's belt and tying his feet and hands) And as we stayed many days, a certain prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. When he had come to us, he took Paul’s belt, bound his own hands and feet, and said, “Thus says the Holy Spirit, ‘So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”
Agabus (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Crede vigori femineo. Castum haud superat labor ullus amorem.”
Silius Italicus (26–101) said by 101 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The demons have always effected that all those who ever so little strived to live by logos and shun vice be hated.”
Justin Martyr (100–165) said by 165 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Second Apology, in Readings in World Christian History (2013), p. 40
“Tibi istum ad munimentum mei committo, si recte agam; sin aliter, in me magis.”
Trajan (53–117) said by 117 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One day as Trajan was putting a captain of the guards (or a prætorian prefect) in possession of his post, he gave him a drawn sword or dagger, according to the custom, and spoke thus. Related by Aurelius Victor, De Caes…
“The twenty-four elders, who were seated on their thrones before God, fell on their faces and worshiped God, saying:”
John of Patmos (50–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source