Hippocrates himself actually postulated this idea in nearly 400 B.C.

“希波克拉底本人实际上在元前400年就提出了这个想法。”

Stoicism was founded in Ancient Greece by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, but was practised by the likes of Epictetus, Cato, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius.

斯多葛学派于元前3世纪早期由西提乌姆的泽诺在古希，但埃皮克泰德、卡托、塞内卡和马库斯·奥雷利乌斯等人都信奉斯多葛学派。

Now you'll often see BCE (Before the Common Era) and CE (Common Era).

现在大家经常能看到BCE(元前)和CE(元前)。

In 537 BC, some 300 years before the first emperor unified China.

元前 537 年，大约在秦始皇统一中国的三百年前。

That eventually happened and in 612 BCE, the city of Nineveh was finally conquered, and the neo-Assyrian Empire had come to its end.

最终发生了这件事，在元前612年，尼尼微终于被征服了，新亚述帝国已经走到了尽头。

He was probably stationed in this provincial trading port, founded in 46 B.C. as a colony for veterans of the Roman army.

他可能驻扎在这个省的贸易港口，这在元前46年被建的，罗马军队老兵的殖民地。

Opposition research is as old as politics itself—Cicero's orations against Catiline, a dodgy candidate for the Roman consulship in 63BC, were notably well-informed.

其最早可追溯到时西塞罗与喀提一场人尽皆知的辩论，喀提元前63年罗马执政官的竞选者，巧舌如簧。

There is the partially intact ruins of a Roman theatre dating back to 15 BC.

这里有部分保存完好的古罗马剧场遗迹，其历史可以追溯至元前15年。

The old Olympic games began around the year 776 B.C. in Greece.

以前的奥运会在元前776年的希举行。

Caesar had spent a lot of time in Egypt, where 365-day calendars were all the rage, so in 46 BC, he flushed Rome’s lunar calendar down the aqueduct and installed a solar calendar.

Caesar曾在埃及待了一段很长的时间，而在那时的埃及盛行365天为一年的历法，所以，在元前46年，他废除了罗马的阴历，改用了阳历。

Which of these leaders held power in the 14th century B.C.?

元前14世纪，这些领导人中谁掌权？

It isn't known when people first started to observe the skies, but at around 650 BC, the Babylonians produced the first short-range weather forecasts, based on their observations of clouds and other phenomena.

人类第一次开始观测天空已不可知，但大概在元前650年，巴比伦人造了第一个短期天气预报系统，基于他们对于云彩和其他现象的观察。

Events around the year 3100 B.C. resulted in the unification of ancient Egypt.

大约元前3100年的一些事件促使了古埃及的统一。

This same shape of pot has been found as far back as 900 B.C.

被发现的同样形状的罐子还有元前900年的呢。

Want to see a 3rd century BC army of more than 8000 men ?

想一睹元前3世纪多达8000多人的军队吗？

They were first used by astronomers hundreds of years B.C. and sailors used them in the Middle Ages until astrolabes were replaced by sextants.

元前数百年，天文学家首次使用它们，水手们在中世纪使用它们，直到六分仪取代了星盘。

And Homer tells stories of this distant past, you too, the Trojan war happened between 12th to 11th century BC, but Homer lived in the 8th century BC.

荷马讲述的遥远的过去，特洛伊战争发生在元前12至11世纪之间，但荷马生活在元前8世纪。

The warrior story is supposedly set around 2,356 BC.

据说勇士故事大约发生在元前2356年左右。

Most of them are dated at around 500 B. C.

它们中的大部分都能追溯到元前500年左右。

He died in the fourth century BC.

他死于元前4世纪。