1. Hesiod, Works And Days, 649 (8th cent. BCE - 7th cent. BCE)
| 649. One who is nursing). You must take good care |
|
2. Theognis, Elegies, 19 (6th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
|
3. Herodotus, Histories, 1.29, 2.49, 4.95 (5th cent. BCE - 5th cent. BCE)
| 1.29. and after these were subdued and subject to Croesus in addition to the Lydians, all the sages from Hellas who were living at that time, coming in different ways, came to Sardis, which was at the height of its property; and among them came Solon the Athenian, who, after making laws for the Athenians at their request, went abroad for ten years, sailing forth to see the world, he said. This he did so as not to be compelled to repeal any of the laws he had made,,since the Athenians themselves could not do that, for they were bound by solemn oaths to abide for ten years by whatever laws Solon should make. 2.49. Now then, it seems to me that Melampus son of Amytheon was not ignorant of but was familiar with this sacrifice. For Melampus was the one who taught the Greeks the name of Dionysus and the way of sacrificing to him and the phallic procession; he did not exactly unveil the subject taking all its details into consideration, for the teachers who came after him made a fuller revelation; but it was from him that the Greeks learned to bear the phallus along in honor of Dionysus, and they got their present practice from his teaching. ,I say, then, that Melampus acquired the prophetic art, being a discerning man, and that, besides many other things which he learned from Egypt, he also taught the Greeks things concerning Dionysus, altering few of them; for I will not say that what is done in Egypt in connection with the god and what is done among the Greeks originated independently: for they would then be of an Hellenic character and not recently introduced. ,Nor again will I say that the Egyptians took either this or any other custom from the Greeks. But I believe that Melampus learned the worship of Dionysus chiefly from Cadmus of Tyre and those who came with Cadmus from Phoenicia to the land now called Boeotia . 4.95. I understand from the Greeks who live beside the Hellespont and Pontus, that this Salmoxis was a man who was once a slave in Samos, his master being Pythagoras son of Mnesarchus; ,then, after being freed and gaining great wealth, he returned to his own country. Now the Thracians were a poor and backward people, but this Salmoxis knew Ionian ways and a more advanced way of life than the Thracian; for he had consorted with Greeks, and moreover with one of the greatest Greek teachers, Pythagoras; ,therefore he made a hall, where he entertained and fed the leaders among his countrymen, and taught them that neither he nor his guests nor any of their descendants would ever die, but that they would go to a place where they would live forever and have all good things. ,While he was doing as I have said and teaching this doctrine, he was meanwhile making an underground chamber. When this was finished, he vanished from the sight of the Thracians, and went down into the underground chamber, where he lived for three years, ,while the Thracians wished him back and mourned him for dead; then in the fourth year he appeared to the Thracians, and thus they came to believe what Salmoxis had told them. Such is the Greek story about him. |
|
4. Isocrates, Orations, 15.268 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
|
5. Plato, Cratylus, 384b (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
|
6. Plato, Greater Hippias, 282b, 281a (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
|
7. Plato, Meno, 91d, 85b (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 85b. Soc. And how many feet is this space? Boy. Eight feet. Soc. From what line do we get this figure? Boy. From this. Soc. From the line drawn corner-wise across the (our-foot figure? Boy. Yes. Soc. The professors call it the diagonal: so if the diagonal is its name, then according to you, Meno’s boy, the double space is the square of the diagonal. Boy. Yes, certainly it is, Socrates. Soc. What do you think, Meno? Was there any opinion that he did not give as an answer of his own thought? |
|
8. Plato, Protagoras, 315d, 316c, 315c (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 315c. eated high on a chair in the doorway opposite; and sitting around him on benches were Eryximachus, son of Acumenus, Phaedrus of Myrrhinous, Andron son of Androtion and a number of strangers,—fellow-citizens of Hippias and some others. They seemed to be asking him a series of astronomical questions on nature and the heavenly bodies, while he, seated in his chair, was distinguishing and expounding to each in turn the subjects of their questions. Nay more, Tantalus also did I there behold. Hom. Od. 11.582 —for you know Prodicus of Ceos is in Athens too: |
|
9. Plato, Republic, 515a5-6 (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
|
10. Plato, Sophist, 232c, 231d (5th cent. BCE - 4th cent. BCE)
| 231d. the number of forms in which the sophist has appeared to us. First, I believe, he was found to be a paid hunter after the young and wealthy. Theaet. Yes. Str. And secondly a kind of merchant in articles of knowledge for the soul. Theaet. Certainly. Str. And thirdly did he not turn up as a retailer of these same articles of knowledge? Theaet. Yes, and fourthly we found he was a seller of his own productions of knowledge. Str. Your memory is good; but I will try to recall the fifth case myself. He was an athlete |
|
11. Philo of Alexandria, On The Posterity of Cain, 53, 101 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
| 101. But Moses does not think it right to incline either to the right or to the left, or in short to any part of the earthly Edom; but rather to proceed along the middle way, which he with great propriety calls the royal road, for since God is the first and only God of the universe, so also the road to him, as being the king's road, is very properly denominated royal; and this royal road you must consider to be philosophy, not that philosophy which the existing sophistical crowd of men pursues (for they, studying the art of words in opposition to truth, have called crafty wickedness, wisdom, assigning a divine name to wicked action), but that which the ancient company of those men who practised virtue studied, rejecting the persuasive juggleries of pleasure, and adopting a virtuous and austere study of the honourable-- |
|
12. Philo of Alexandria, That The Worse Attacks The Better, 1 (1st cent. BCE - 1st cent. CE)
| 1. And Cain said to Abel his brother, "Let us go to the field. And it came to pass, that while they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew Him." What Cain proposes to do is this: having by invitation led Abel on to a dispute, to convince him by main force, using plausible and probable sophisms; for the field to which he invites him to come, we may call a symbol of rivalry and contention, forming our conjectures of things that are uncertain from our perception of those which are manifest. |
|
13. Anon., Didache, 11.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
|
14. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 9.9, 9.12 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 9.9. For it is written in the law of Moses,"You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain." Is it forthe oxen that God cares 9.12. If others partake of this right overyou, don't we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but webear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel ofChrist. |
|
15. New Testament, 1 Thessalonians, 2.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 2.9. For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the gospel of God. |
|
16. New Testament, 1 Timothy, 3.3, 5.17-5.18 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 3.3. not a drinker, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous; 5.17. Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching. 5.18. For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle the ox when it treads out the grain." And, "The laborer is worthy of his wages. |
|
17. New Testament, 2 Corinthians, 2.17, 11.4-11.5 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
|
18. New Testament, 2 Thessalonians, 3.7-3.8 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 3.7. For you know how you ought to imitate us. For we didn't behave ourselves rebelliously among you 3.8. neither did we eat bread from anyone's hand without paying for it, but in labor and travail worked night and day, that we might not burden any of you; |
|
19. New Testament, Acts, 18.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)
| 18.3. and because he practiced the same trade, he lived with them and worked, for by trade they were tent makers. |
|
20. New Testament, Galatians, 6.6 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 6.6. But let him who is taught in the word share all goodthings with him who teaches. |
|
21. New Testament, Philippians, 4.14-4.18 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 4.14. However you did well that you had fellowship with my affliction. 4.15. You yourselves also know, you Philippians, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no assembly had fellowship with me in the matter of giving and receiving but you only. 4.16. For even in Thessalonica you sent once and again to my need. 4.17. Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account. 4.18. But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God. |
|
22. New Testament, Romans, 15.26-15.27 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 15.26. For it has been the good pleasure of Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the saints who are at Jerusalem. 15.27. Yes, it has been their good pleasure, and they are their debtors. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, they owe it to them also to serve them in fleshly things. |
|
23. New Testament, Titus, 1.7 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 1.7. For the overseer must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-pleasing, not easily angered, not given to wine, not violent, not greedy for dishonest gain; |
|
24. New Testament, Luke, 10.7 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 10.7. Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house. |
|
25. New Testament, Matthew, 10.8-10.9 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE)
| 10.8. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give. 10.9. Don't take any gold, nor silver, nor brass in your money belts. |
|
26. Irenaeus, Refutation of All Heresies, 1.4.3, 1.13.3, 2.26.1, 2.31.3, 2.32.4, 4.18.4, 5.20.1-5.20.2 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)
|
