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“Belistiche, a woman from the coast of Macedonia, won with the pair of foals … at the hundred and twenty-ninth Olympics.”
Pausanias (110–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Rabbi, You are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!”
Bartholomew the Apostle (101 BC–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The even is that which can be divided into two equal parts without a unit intervening in the middle; and the odd is that which cannot...”
Nicomachus (60–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Its literary merits must be left to the judgment of its readers; as to its truth, I should not hesitate to make the confident assertion that from the first word to the last I have aimed at nothing else.”
Flavius Josephus (37–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They (Indians) are remarkably brave, and superior in war to all Asiatics; they are remarkable for integrity; they are so reasonable as seldom to have recourse to law suits, and so honest as to require neither locks to their doors nor writings to bind their agreements. They are in the highest degree truthful.”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in :Sunderland, Rev. Jabez T. Indza in Bondage. Her Right to Freedom Lewis Copeland Company New York 1929p. 178. Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents…
“Cive Romano per orbem nemo vivit rectius: quippe malim unum Catonem quam trecentos Socratas.”
Florus (70–140) said by 140 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Non temere in quemquam nisi crebris et minutis ictibus animadverti passus est, perpetuo notoque iam praecepto: "Ita feri ut se mori sentiat.”
Suetonius (69–150) said by 150 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For the fact that the blind do not see, it cannot be concluded that the sunlight does not shine. Rightly therefore they attribute their darkness to themselves and to their eyes.”
Theophilus of Antioch (200–183) said by 183 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.”
Marcus Aurelius (121–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
“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.
“Be not, O Greeks, so very hostilely disposed towards the Barbarians. To the Babylonians you owe astronomy; to the Persians, magic; to the Egyptians, geometry; to the Phoeicians, instruction by alphabetic writing. Cease, then, to miscall these imitations inventions of your own. Orpheus, again, taught you poetry and song; from him, too, you learned the mysteries.”
Tatian (120–173) said by 173 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All this is unauthenticated, and I shall leave it open.”
Tacitus (55–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God has conferred upon men liberty of their own will, in order that by purity and sinlessness of life they may become like unto God.”
Pope Sixtus I (42–126) said by 126 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in On Nature and Grace, Ch. 77, by Augustine of Hippo, as translated by Peter Holmes, Robert Ernest Wallis and Benjamin B Warfield in A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Chu…
“εἰ γοῦν ἐθελήσειας αὐτοῦ τῇ περὶ τὴν Ἀνάβασιν πραγματεία σφόδρα ἐπιμελῶς ἐντυχεῖν, [. . .] εὑρήσεις [. . .] καὶ ἐξαπατῆσαι ὅπως πολεμίους μὲν ἐπὶ βλάβῃ, φίλους δ᾿ ἐπὶ τῷ συμφέροντι, καὶ μάτην ταραττομένοις ἀλύπως τἀληθὲς καὶ πιστῶς εἰπεῖν.”
Dio Chrysostom (40–120) said by 120 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: XVIII.15–16 (tr. R. C. Bartlett, 1996)
“Multo enim multoque seipsum quam hostem superare operosius est.”
Valerius Maximus (101 BC–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: IV, 1, 2 (tr. Samuel Speed, 1678)
“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)
“Arabic Infancy Gospel – apocryphal attributed to him”
Caiaphas (100–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Neither fear your death's day nor long for it.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: X, 47. Alternatively translated as "Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day", in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest / Live well: how long or sh…
“(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
“I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.”
Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In some of the manuscripts, the books begins with this epigram (Owen Gingerich, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p. 55).
“אם אין אני לי, מי לי? וכשאני לעצמי, מה אני? ואם לא עכשיו, אימתי?”
Hillel the Elder (101 BC–100) said by 100 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Hilel, o Ancião (pt)