2 Maccabees 5:32

1 translation of 23 that include the deuterocanon

SEPTUAGINTA

οὐχ οὕτως οἰκτείρομαι τὸ ἐμαυτοῦ γῆρας ὥστε με δι' ἐμαυτοῦ τὸν πάτριον καταλῦσαι νόμον.

The traditions broadly agree on this one.

Broad agreement: 124 BC–100 BC Anonymous
An abridgement of a five-volume work by Jason of Cyrene.

Events overlapping when this passage is dated (124 BC–100 BC).

1070 BC–350 AD The kingdom of Kush Africa
A Nubian power on the upper Nile that ruled Egypt itself as its twenty-fifth dynasty.
500 BC–500 AD The Nazca lines South America
Vast figures drawn on the Peruvian desert, visible only from the surrounding hills.
206 BC–220 AD The Han dynasty China
Four centuries of Chinese rule contemporary with the whole of Roman expansion.
150 BC–100 AD Roman concrete and the aqueducts Rome
Hydraulic concrete let Rome build harbours, domes and aqueducts that still stand.
130 BC–100 BC The Silk Road opens Asia
Regular overland trade linked Han China to the Mediterranean, carrying goods, disease and ideas.
100 BC–550 AD Teotihuacan Mesoamerica
A city of perhaps a hundred thousand people in the valley of Mexico, with monumental pyramids.
106 BC–43 BC Cicero Rome
Orator and philosopher whose Latin prose became the standard for the language.