of Philosophy):Mahābhāṣya(Treatise on grammar and linguistics),Patanjalatantra(medical text), Yoga sūtras Badrayana(Founder of Vedanta School of Philosophy):Brahma Sutras Manu:Manusmriti(Laws of Manu) Avestan: Vendidad Chinese: Sima Qian: Records of the Grand Historian (Shǐjì) Aramaic: Book of Daniel Hebrew: Sirach Greek Polybius: The Histories Book of Wisdom Septuagint Latin: Terence (195/185 BC — 159 BC), comic dramatist: The Brothers, The Girl from Andros, Eunuchus, The Self-Tormentor Quintus Ennius (239 BC — ), poet Marcus Pacuvius ( — 130 BC), tragic dramatist, poet Statius Caecilius (220 BC — 168/166 BC), comic dramatist Marcius Porcius Cato (234 BC — 149 BC), generalist, topical writer Gaius Acilius (2nd century BC), historian Lucius Accius (170 BC — ), tragic dramatist, philologist Gaius Lucilius ( — 103/2 BC), satirist Quintus Lutatius Catulus (2nd century BC), public officer, epigrammatist Aulus Furius Antias (2nd century BC), poet Gaius Julius Caesar Strabo Vopiscus (130 BC — 87 BC), public officer, tragic dramatist Lucius Pomponius Bononiensis (2nd century BC), comic dramatist, satirist Lucius Cassius Hemina (2nd century BC), historian Lucius Calpurnius Piso Frugi (2nd century BC), historian Manius Manilius (2nd century BC), public officer, jurist Lucius Coelius Antipater (2nd century BC), jurist, historian Publius Sempronius Asellio (158 BC — after 91 BC), military officer, historian Gaius Sempronius Tuditanus (2nd century BC), jurist Lucius Afranius (2nd & 1st centuries BC), comic dramatist Titus Albucius (2nd & 1st centuries BC), orator Publius Rutilius Rufus (158 BC — after 78 BC), jurist Quintus Lutatius Catulus (2nd & 1st centuries BC), public officer, poet Lucius Aelius Stilo Praeconinus (154 BC — 74 BC), philologist Quintus Claudius Quadrigarius (2nd & 1st centuries BC), historian Valerius Antias (2nd & 1st centuries BC), historian Lucius Cornelius Sisenna (121 BC — 67 BC), soldier, historian Quintus Cornificius (2nd & 1st centuries BC), rhetorician 1st century BC Pali (Sri Lanka): Pāli Tripiṭaka (Written under the patronage of King Vattagamani of Anuradhapura in Aluhihare, Matale) Latin: Cicero: Catiline Orations, Pro Caelio, Dream of Scipio Julius Caesar: Gallic Wars, Civil War Virgil: Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid Lucretius: On the Nature of Things Livy: History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) 1st century AD Sanskrit Śabara:Sābara-bhāṣyam Gunadhara:Kasayapahuda Aśvaghoṣa:Buddhacharita (Acts of the Buddha),Saundarananda, Sutralankara Chinese: Ban Gu: Book of Han (Hànshū) Greek: Plutarch: Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Josephus: The Jewish War, Antiquities of the Jews, Against Apion The books of the New Testament of the Christian Bible and the Didache Latin: see Classical Latin