1
| ROM {17 January} Octavianus marries Livia.
* Read Dio's account
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#EhrJon:Fast_Jan17;
Vell_2.79'2,
94'1;
Plin:HN_15'136-137;L
Tac:Ann_1'10,
5'1;
Suet:Aug_62'2,
69'1,
:Tib_4'3,
:Claud_1'1;
+DioCass_48.44'1-5;*
[Vict]:Epit_1'23;
{ CAH_10'24.}
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2
| A fountain of oil flows from an inn near the river Tiber.
* Read St.Jerome's account
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+DioCass_48.43'4;
!Hieron:Chron_1976;*
!Oros_6.18'34,
20'6-7;
{ From Orosius onwards, this was regarded as an omen foretelling the birth of Christ.}
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3
| {April} The birth of Drusus, the son of Livia.
* Read Suetonius' account
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Vell_2.95'1;
Suet:Claud_1'1;*
+DioCass_48.44'4;
{ OCD³; three months after the marriage of Livia.}
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4
| MAU Bocchus drives out Bogud, and establishes himself as king of Mauretania.
@
(?)
[Liv]:Per_127;
+DioCass_48.45'1-3.
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5
| SAR Menas deserts from Sextus Pompeius, and hands over Sardinia to Octavianus.
* Read Appian's account
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Suet:Aug_74'1;
+Appian:BCiv_5'77-78;*
+DioCass_48.45'4-9;
Oros_6.18'21;
{ CAH_10'24; OCD³.}
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6
| PAL Herodes suppresses brigands in Galilee.
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~Joseph:BJ_1'309-316,
:AJ_14'42-433.
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7
| SYR {9 June} Ventidius defeats and kills Pacorus, the son of the Parthian king, at Gindarus.
* Read Dio's account
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Strab_16'751;(2.8)
Joseph:BJ_1'317;
Frontin:Str_1.1'6,
2.2'5;
Tac:Hist_5'9;
Plut:Ant_34'2-3;
Flor_2.19'5-7;
#DioCass_49.19'1-21'2;*
Just_42.4'7-10;
#Festus:Brev_18'2;
#Eutrop_7.5'1;
Movses_2'20;
{ OCD³.}
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8
| ITA Antonius sails to Brundisium, but leaves soon afterwards as Octavianus fails to meet him.
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+Appian:BCiv_5'78-79;
+DioCass_48.46'-2-3;
{ CAH_10'25.}
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9
| ROM Octavianus prepares to renew the war against Sextus Pompeius.
* Read Appian's account
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[Liv]:Per_128;
+Appian:BCiv_5'80;*
Oros_6.18'20.
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10
| GAL << The Gauls in Aquitania start a rebellion, but are defeated by Agrippa.
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+Appian:BCiv_5'92;
DioCass_48.49'3;
Eutrop_7.5'1;
{ CAH_10'25; OCD³.}
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11
| ITA Menecrates, the admiral of Sextus Pompeius, defeats Menas near Cumae.
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+Appian:BCiv_5'81-84;
+DioCass_48.46'1-6.
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12
| PER Orodes is overwhelmed by grief, after learning that his son Pacorus has died.
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Plut:Crass_33'5;
Just_42.4'11-13.
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13
| PAL Ventidius sends Machaeras with an army to assist Herodes.
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Joseph:BJ_1'317-320,
:AJ_14'434-438.
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14
| SIC The fleet of Octavianus is destroyed in a storm, after he is defeated by Sextus Pompeius near Messana.
* Read Appian's account
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[Liv]:Per_128;
(?)
Plin:HN_7'148;
Suet:Aug_16'1-2;
+Appian:BCiv_5'84-91;*
+DioCass_48.47'1-48'4;
Julian:Caes_325'C;
Oros_6.18'21-22;
{ CAH_10'24.}
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15
| ARM Antonius besieges Antiochus of Commagene at Samosata, but eventually agrees to a truce.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Joseph:BJ_1'321-322;
:AJ_14'439-447;
Plut:Ant_34'4-7;*
DioCass_49.22'1-2;
Oros_6.18'23;
Movses_2'21;
{ CAH_10'24; OCD³.}
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16
| PAL Antigonus defeats and kills Joseph, the brother of Herodes, near Jericho.
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Joseph:BJ_1'323-327,
:AJ_14'448-450.
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17
| ROM {27 November} The triumph of Ventidius: the first triumph won by a Roman general over the Parthians.
* Read Plutarch's account
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#FastTr_p109;
Vell_2.65'3;
ValMax_6.9'9;
Plin:HN_7'135;
Plut:Ant_34'8-9;*
(?)
Fronto:Ep_2'p136;L (2.9)
Gell_15.4'4;
DioCass_49.21'1-3;
Festus:Brev_18'3;
Eutrop_7.5'1;
{ CAH_10'24; DPRR.}
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18
| SIC Sextus Pompeius celebrates his victories with a magnificent sacrifice to Neptune at Pelorus.
* Read Dio's account
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Flor_2.18'3;
Appian:BCiv_5'100;
+DioCass_48.48'5-49'1;*
[Vict]:VirIll_84'2.
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19
| ROM == 67 praetors are appointed during this year.
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+DioCass_48.43'1-6.
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21
| << Document: Verg:Ecl_, the Eclogues of Vergilius.
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[Suet]:Verg_25,
26,
43;
{ OCD³; see Tenney Frank, Vergil, p.137.}
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22
| ASI << Document: IAph_8.25 & 8.31-32, letters from Octavianus to the cities of Aphrodisias, Ephesus and Samos.
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23
| << Document: IAph_8.29 & 8.30, letters from Octavianus to Stephanus, and from Stephanus to Aphrodisias.
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