Sentence examples for BCE from inspiring English sources
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Before the Common Era, Current Era or Christian Era.
- Socrates was tried and executed in the year 399 BCE.
THE refreshment trolley of Ecuador's central bank (BCE) is an unlikely guinea pig for an experiment with electronic money.
Eudemus of Rhodes (later 4th cent. BCE) wrote books entitled Categories, Analytics and On Speech.
One important influence may have been the Greek scholar Alexander Polyhistor, who was born in Miletus but was captured by the Romans during the Mithridatic wars and brought to Rome as a slave and freed by Sulla in 80 BCE.
This system is very similar to what is found in Eudorus, a Platonist working in Alexandria in the fist cenutury BCE.
Hippolytus' presentation of Pythagoreanism, which groups together Pythagoras, Plato, Empedocles and Heraclitus into a Pythagorean succession, belongs to a family of Neopythagorean interpretations of Pythagoreanism developed in the first century BCE and the first two centuries CE and which also appear in later commentators such as Syrianus and Philoponus.
With the exception of a very few snippets of information, the only other source of evidence on Pyrrho that is close to contemporary is Antigonus of Carystus, a biographer of the mid-third century BCE.
This dazzling display of dialectical skill, together with the deep seated suspicion of philosophical culture, generated a conservative backlash against all Greek philosophers led by Cato the Elder (234 149 BCE).
We do not possess a single complete work by any of the first three heads of the Stoic school: the 'founder,' Zeno of Citium in Cyprus (344 262 BCE), Cleanthes (d. 232 BCE) or Chrysippus (d. ca. 206 BCE).
Donohue (2010) now argues that ius is used in a subjective sense throughout the works of the classical Roman jurists in the first century BCE to the third century CE.
As far as we know, explicit metaphysical discussions began in China in the mid to late 4th century BCE with the Laozi (Daodejing) and associated texts.
