1. Cicero, On Divination, 1.47 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
| 1.47. Est profecto quiddam etiam in barbaris gentibus praesentiens atque divis, siquidem ad mortem proficiscens Callanus Indus, cum inscenderet in rogum ardentem, O praeclarum discessum, inquit, e vita, cum, ut Herculi contigit, mortali corpore cremato in lucem animus excesserit! Cumque Alexander eum rogaret, si quid vellet, ut diceret, Optime, inquit; propediem te videbo . Quod ita contigit; nam Babylone paucis post diebus Alexander est mortuus. Discedo parumper a somniis, ad quae mox revertar. Qua nocte templum Ephesiae Dianae deflagravit, eadem constat ex Olympiade natum esse Alexandrum, atque, ubi lucere coepisset, clamitasse magos pestem ac perniciem Asiae proxuma nocte natam. Haec de Indis et magis. | 1.47. It certainly must be true that even barbarians have some power of foreknowledge and of prophecy, if the following story of Callanus of India be true: As he was about to die and was ascending the funeral pyre, he said: What a glorious death! The fate of Hercules is mine. For when this mortal frame is burned the soul will find the light. When Alexander directed him to speak if he wished to say anything to him, he answered: Thank you, nothing, except that I shall see you very soon. So it turned out, for Alexander died in Babylon a few days later. I am getting slightly away from dreams, but I shall return to them in a moment. Everybody knows that on the same night in which Olympias was delivered of Alexander the temple of Diana at Ephesus was burned, and that the magi began to cry out as day was breaking: Asias deadly curse was born last night. But enough of Indians and magi. [24] |
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2. Cicero, Tusculan Disputations, 2.52, 5.77 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
| 2.52. 'cave turpe quicquam, languidum, non virile.' obversentur obversentur s obversetur GRK 2 observetur K 1 V (s in r. m.vet ) species honestae honeste X( alt. e transf. V vet ) animo: animo ( aio ) s ūo V 1 ( exp. 2autc ) uero GKR viro Tr. Zeno proponatur Eleates, qui perpessus est omnia potius quam conscios conscius X (consscius G 1 ) corr. V rec s delendae tyrannidis indicaret; de Anaxarcho de anaxarcho V 2 Democritio denax. X cogitetur, qui cum Cypri cypri V (p e corr. 1 ) cyrri GKR(r 1 ) in manus Timocreontis Timocreontis Nicocreontis s regis incidisset, nullum genus supplicii supplici V 1 deprecatus est neque recusavit. Callanus Callanus W cf. Th. l. l. Indus, indoctus ac barbarus, in radicibus Caucasi natus, sua voluntate vivus nobis V 2 combustus est; nos, si pes condoluit, si dens sed fac totum fac totum factotum facto tum factottum K 1 dolere dolere om. V dolore K 1 G 1 ( corr. K 2 G 2 ) corpus si tactum dolore corpus s We. ( addito est) sed... corpus del. Bai. , ferre non possumus. opinio est enim quaedam effeminata ac levis—nec in dolore magis quam eadem in voluptate—, qua qua V cum liquescimus liquiscimus R 1 fluimusque flu musque V ( m V c ) mollitia, apis aculeum sine clamore ferre non possumus. 5.77. huic igitur succumbet virtus, huic beata sapientis et constantis viri vita cedet? caedet RV quam turpe, o dii boni! pueri Spartiatae non ingemescunt ingemiscunt K 1 R c B verberum verberum ex verborum V 1 G 2 dolore laniati. adulescentium greges reges V 1 Lacedaemone vidimus ipsi incredibili contentione contione X (conditione G 1 ) corr. B 1 s certantis pugnis calcibus unguibus morsu denique, cum exanimarentur prius quam victos se faterentur. quae barbaria India vastior aut agrestior? quae...agrestior? Non.415,11 in ea tamen aut... tamen add. V c gente primum sqq. cf.Val.Max.3,3,6 ext.2,6,14 ei, qui sapientes habentur, nudi aetatem agunt et Caucasi nives hiemalemque vim perferunt sine sqq. cf.Val.Max.3,3,6 ext.2,6,14 dolore, cumque ad flammam se adplicaverunt, applicaverunt KRV sine gemitu aduruntur. | |
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3. Septuagint, Ecclesiasticus (Siracides), 40.1-40.7, 41.1-41.4 (2nd cent. BCE - 2nd cent. BCE)
| 40.1. Much labor was created for every man,and a heavy yoke is upon the sons of Adam,from the day they come forth from their mothers womb till the day they return to the mother of all. 40.1. All these were created for the wicked,and on their account the flood came. 40.2. Their perplexities and fear of heart -- their anxious thought is the day of death 40.2. Wine and music gladden the heart,but the love of wisdom is better than both. 40.3. from the man who sits on a splendid throne to the one who is humbled in dust and ashes 40.3. In the mouth of the shameless begging is sweet,but in his stomach a fire is kindled. 40.4. from the man who wears purple and a crown to the one who is clothed in burlap; 40.5. there is anger and envy and trouble and unrest,and fear of death, and fury and strife. And when one rests upon his bed,his sleep at night confuses his mind. 40.6. He gets little or no rest,and afterward in his sleep, as though he were on watch,he is troubled by the visions of his mind like one who has escaped from the battle-front; 40.7. at the moment of his rescue he wakes up,and wonders that his fear came to nothing. 41.1. O death, how bitter is the reminder of you to one who lives at peace among his possessions,to a man without distractions, who is prosperous in everything,and who still has the vigor to enjoy his food! 41.1. Whatever is from the dust returns to dust;so the ungodly go from curse to destruction. 41.2. and of silence, before those who greet you;of looking at a woman who is a harlot 41.4. and how can you reject the good pleasure of the Most High?Whether life is for ten or a hundred or a thousand years,there is no inquiry about it in Hades. |
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4. Septuagint, Wisdom of Solomon, 2.23-2.24 (2nd cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
| 2.23. for God created man for incorruption,and made him in the image of his own eternity 2.24. but through the devils envy death entered the world,and those who belong to his party experience it. |
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5. Lucretius Carus, On The Nature of Things, 1.102-1.126 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. BCE)
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6. Dio Chrysostom, Orations, 59 (1st cent. CE
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7. Epictetus, Discourses, 1.27.7, 4.7.6 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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8. New Testament, Acts, 26.18 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
| 26.18. to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.' |
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9. New Testament, Colossians, 1.13 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 1.13. who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love; |
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10. New Testament, Ephesians, 2.2, 6.12 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 2.2. in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience; 6.12. For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world's rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. |
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11. New Testament, Hebrews, 2.15 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 2.15. and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. |
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12. New Testament, John, 12.31 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 12.31. Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out. |
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13. Cassius Dio, Roman History, 54.9.9-54.9.10 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
| 54.9.9. And yet, defective as he was, he could use his feet for everything, as if they were hands: with them he would stretch a bow, shoot missiles, and put a trumpet to his lips. How he did this I do not know; I merely state what is recorded. 54.9.10. One of the Indians, Zarmarus, for some reason wished to die, â either because, being of the caste of sages, he was on this account moved by ambition, or, in accordance with the traditional custom of the Indians, because of old age, or because he wished to make a display for the benefit of Augustus and the Athenians (for Augustus had reached Athens);â he was therefore initiated into the mysteries of the two goddesses, which were held out of season on account, they say, of Augustus, who also was an initiate, and he then threw himself alive into the fire. |
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14. Lucian, The Passing of Peregrinus, 23, 13 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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15. Marcus Aurelius Emperor of Rome, Meditations, 11.3 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
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16. Anon., Pirqe Rabbi Eliezer, 13
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