Classical antiquity
The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Exodus 12:12).
Herodotus. Ἱστορίαι [Histories]. c. 430 BC, bk. 3, sect. 38.
Herodotus. The Histories, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, sect. 38.
Aeschylus. Agamemnon. 458 BCE, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.
Aeschylus. "Agamemnon." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.
The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 28:19-20).
Pliny the Younger. Epistulae [Letters]. c. 1st century, bk. 2, no. 15.
Pliny the Younger. Complete Letters, translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2, no. 15.
Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 12.
Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 12.
Horace. Carmina [Odes]. 23 BC, bk. 3, no. 6.
Horace. "Odes." The Complete Odes and Epodes, translated by David West. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 3, no. 6.
Euripides. Ἱππόλυτος [Hippolytus]. 428 BC, City Dionysia festival, Athens, Greece.
Euripides. "Hippolytus." Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, edited and translated by Richard Lattimore, et. al. University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Terence. Ἑαυτὸν τιμωρούμενος [Heuton Timoroumenous]. c. 163 BC, Rome, Italy, act 4, sc. 6.
The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Luke 17:6).
Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides
Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.
Sextus Propertius. Elegies. c. 24 BC, bk. 2.
Sextus Propertius. Elegies, edited and translated by G. P. Goold. Harvard University Press, 1990, bk. 2.