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In the 2nd and 3rd century CE, those at Didyma and Clarus pronounced the so-called " theological oracles ", in which Apollo confirms that all deities are aspects or servants of an all-encompassing, highest deity.
The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.
In the late 2nd century CE floor mosaic from El Djem, Roman Thysdrus, he is identifiable as Apollo Helios by his effulgent halo, though now even a god's divine nakedness is concealed by his cloak, a mark of increasing conventions of modesty in the later Empire.
The earliest known written documentation of the Chinese abacus dates to the 2nd century BC.
It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.
* Metrodorus of Stratonicea ( late 2nd century BC )
* Gotama ( c. 2nd – 3rd century CE ), wrote Jaimini, author of Purva Mimamsa Sutras.
* Alcinous ( philosopher ) ( 2nd century AD )
* Take two: Aspirin, New uses and new dangers are still being discovered as aspirin enters its 2nd century.
Akkadian gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language somewhere around the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC ( the exact dating being a matter of debate ), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Mesopotamia until the 1st century AD.
A 2nd century AD papyrus of Alcaeus, one of the many such fragments that have contributed to our greatly improved knowledge of Alcaeus ' poetry during the 20th century ( P. Berol.
Alcamenes () was an ancient Greek sculptor of Lemnos and Athens, who flourished in the 2nd half of the 5th century BC.
), one 2nd century BC ( Basil Mandilaras, ' A new papyrus fragment of the Certamen Homeri et Hesiodi Platon 42 ( 1990 ) 45 – 51 ) and one 2nd or 3rd century AD ( University of Michigan pap.
Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century.
The document is dated to the 2nd century BC and, in the form of a vision, briefly discusses dualism and the Watchers:
* Andronicus ben Meshullam, a Jewish scholar of the 2nd century BC
The numerals used in the Bakhshali manuscript, dated between the 2nd century BCE and the 2nd century CE.

2nd and Lakhum
The Lakhmid Kingdom was founded by the Lakhum tribe that emigrated from Yemen in the 2nd century and ruled by the Banu Lakhm, hence the name given it.
The Arab Lakhmid Kingdom was founded by the Lakhum tribe that emigrated from Yemen in the 2nd century and ruled by the Banu Lakhm, hence the name given it.

2nd and tribe
The Cimbri were a tribe from Northern Europe, who, together with the Teutones and the Ambrones threatened the Roman Republic in the late 2nd century BC.
Also in the 2nd century BC, the Han dispatched the explorer Zhang Qian to explore the lands to the west and to form an alliance with the Yuezhi people in order to combat the nomadic tribe of the Xiongnu.
The Greek geographer Ptolemy had already written of two Baltic tribe / nations by name, the Galindai and Soudinoi ( Γαλίνδαι, Σουδινοί ) in the 2nd Century A. D.
Also in the 2nd century BC, a Turkic tribe called O-kut or Wuqi 呼揭, 呼得, 乌揭, 乌护 who were described as a western enemy of the Huns ( referred to in Chinese sources, Shiji, 110 and Suishu, 84 ) were mentioned in the area of the Irtysh River, in present-day Lake Zaysan.
Starting with the 2nd millennium BC, it was inhabited by the Dacian tribes, such as Costoboci and Carpians, and for a period, cohabitated by the Celto-Germanic tribe of Bastarnae.
In the 2nd century BC, many of the Boii tribe were pushed north across the Alps out of northern Italy by the Romans.
The first mention of the tribe occurs in the works of Ptolemy in the 2nd century A. D .:
Ptolemy's Geographia in the 2nd century AD records a tribe known as the Setantii living in what is believed to be present-day West Lancashire, and a seaport built by the Romans called PORTVS SETANTIORVM (' the port of the Setantii ') abutting Moricambe Aestuarium ( presumably Morecambe Bay ).
The earliest record of viticulture in the region dates to the 2nd century BC when the Romans first encountered the Allobroges tribe whose territory included the regions around Vienne.
The Scirii ( also Sciri, Scirians, Skirii, Skiri or Skirians ) were an East Germanic tribe of Eastern Europe, attested in historical works between the 2nd century BC and 5th century AD.
Around 2nd century BC, also a Celt tribe settled at Aliobrix ( present day Cartal / Orlovka ).
It appears that initially the Dumnonii tribe of Britons were a client kingdom of Rome, but from about AD 55 the Romans held at least part of the area under military occupation, maintaining a naval port at Topsham and a garrison of the 2nd Augustan Legion at Exeter, which they called ' Isca '.
Since April the 2nd, 2011, Naqibullah Shorish has been chosen by the elders as the main leader of the Kharoti tribe in all parts of Afghanistan.
The Diduni or Dunii were a Germanic tribe mentioned only by the 2nd century geographer Claudius Ptolemy.
A portion of the powerful Bastarnae tribe ( probably of mixed Germanic-Celtic blood ) settled on the island, apparently in the 2nd century BC, and adopted from their abode an alternative tribal name, " Peucini ", used by some classical authors to cover sections of the Bastarnae tribe which had never set foot on the island.
The Ambrones () were a tribe that appeared briefly in the Roman sources relating to the 2nd century BC.
The Dacian tribe of Albocenses dwelled in this area in the 2nd century AD.
It is generally assumed that the name is derived from the tribe of the Cimbri since, in the Geography of Ptolemy ( 2nd cent.

2nd and who
* Aelianus Tacticus, Greek military writer of the 2nd century, who lived in Rome
* Aristophanes of Byzantium, a scholar who flourished in Alexandria, 3rd – 2nd century BC
The visions in the latter half of Daniel are theorized to be written by an anonymous author in the Maccabean era, who assembled the legends with the visions as one book, in the 2nd century BCE.
In the 2nd century, Pertinax, who shared his birthday, became Emperor, overshadowing commemoration of Claudius.
" Ever since the time of Gendun Gyatso, the 2nd Dalai Lama, who formalised the system, the Regents and other monks have gone to the lake to seek guidance on choosing the next reincarnation through visions while meditating there.
Named for William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth — an important supporter of Eleazar Wheelock's earlier efforts but who, in fact, opposed creation of the College and never donated to it — Dartmouth is the nation's ninth oldest college and the last institution of higher learning established under Colonial rule.
For instance, Paul cites Greek writers and philosophers, and the author of Hebrews references oral tradition which spoke of an Old Testament prophet who was sawn in half in Hebrews 11: 37, two verses after the 2nd Maccabees reference.
As a consequence, the anti-Domitianic tradition was already well established by the end of the 2nd century, and by the 3rd century, even expanded upon by early Church historians, who identified Domitian as an early persecutor of Christians.
In the 2nd century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan, " Alexander the false prophet ", trained by " one of those who advertise enchantments, miraculous incantations, charms for your love-affairs, visitations for your enemies, disclosures of buried treasure, and successions to estates ",< ref >
Succeeding the Valdivia, the Machallia culture were a farming culture who thrived along the coast of Ecuador between the 2nd and 1st millennia BC.
It is the term by which the rite is referred to by the Didache ( late 1st or early 2nd century ), Ignatius of Antioch ( who died between 98 and 117 ) and Justin Martyr ( writing between 147 and 167 ).
Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Mountbatten, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma ( born on 14 February 1924 ), sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and Lady Pamela Carmen Louise ( Hicks ) ( born on 19 April 1929 ), who accompanied them to India in 1947-48 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.
The Enchiridion, or Handbook of Epictetus, (), often shortened to simply " The Handbook ", is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice compiled by Arrian, who had been a pupil of Epictetus at the beginning of the 2nd century.
* 587: In the 2nd year of Yōmei-tennō's reign ( 用明天皇2年 ), the emperor died, and despite a dispute over who should follow him as sovereign, the succession (‘‘ senso ’’) was received by another son of Emperor Kimmei, one of Yōmei's younger brothers.
On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he again commanded the Saxons, who were included in the 2nd army under Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia, his old opponent.
In the middle of the 2nd century, an edited version of the Gospel of Luke was the only gospel accepted by Marcion, a heretic who rejected Christianity's connection to Jewish scripture.
The Gracchi brothers, Tiberius and Gaius, were Roman plebeian nobiles who both served as tribunes in the late 2nd century BC.
Despite the use of " Hatti ", the Hittites should be distinguished from the Hattians, an earlier people who inhabited the same region until the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, and spoke a non-Indo-European language known as Hattic.
Other noteworthy and famous Greek historians include Plutarch ( 2nd century AD ), who wrote several biographies, the Parallel Lives, in which he wanted to assess the morality of its characters by comparing them in pairs, and Polybius ( 3nd century BC ), who developed Thucydides's method further, becoming one of the most objective historians of classical antiquity.
Identifying the narrators of the various texts, comparing their narrations of the same texts to identify both the soundest reporting of a text and the reporters who are most sound in their reporting occupied experts of hadith throughout the 2nd century.
During the Han dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing, who was mayor of Changsha near the end of the 2nd century AD, wrote a Treatise on Cold Damage, which contains the earliest known reference to the Neijing Suwen.
His Commentary on Daniel was expressly written to offset the criticisms of Porphyry, who taught that Daniel related entirely to the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and was written by an unknown individual living in the 2nd century BC.

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