| 1
| GRE Atticus meets Sulla at Athens, but refuses to follow him back to Italy.
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Nepos:Att_4'1-2,
16'1.
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| 2
| ROM {20 Feb. -R} Sex.Naevius lays claim to the legal possession of the property of P.Quinctius.
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+Cic:Quinct_15-28,
57-58,
60-66,
#79-85.
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| 3
| ITA Sulla crosses over from Greece and arrives at Brundisium.
* Read Appian's account
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Sall:Hist_1'28;L
+[Liv]:Per_85;
Vell_2.24'3;
~Plut:Sull_27'1-6;
Flor_2.9'18;
~Appian:BCiv_1'79,*
'84;
Ampel_42'3;
+Obseq_57;
[Vict]:VirIll_75'8;
+Eutrop_5.7'4;
{ CAH_9'187; Green_721.}
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| 4
| Omens at the outset of the civil war.
* Read Appian's account
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~Plut:Sull_27'6-9,
'12;
+Appian:BCiv_1'83;*
+Obseq_57;
August:DeCiv_2'24,(↓)
'25.
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| 5
| M.Brutus founds a colony at Capua.
* Read Cicero's account
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Cic:LegAgr_2'89,
'92-94;*
{ CAH_9'189; OCD³.}
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| 6
| Metellus joins Sulla.
* Read Appian's account
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+Appian:BCiv_1'80;*
DioCass_fr.106'1;
{ CAH_9'187.}
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| 7
| Sulla advances against his opponents, who make further preparations to resist him by force.
* Read Appian's account
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[Liv]:Per_84;
~Vell_2.25'1;
+Appian:BCiv_1'81-82;*
Exsuper_43-44.
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| 8
| ETR Cn.Pompeius raises an army in Picenum.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Cic:LegMan_61;
[Caes]:BAfr_22'2-4;
Cic:Phil_5'43-44;
Diod_38.9'1;
+[Liv]:Per_85;
Vell_2.29'1-2;
~Plut:Pomp_5'4-6'6,*
:Mor_203'B-C;
+Appian:BCiv_1'80;
DioCass_fr.107'1.
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| 9
| Pompeius defeats L.Junius Brutus.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Diod_38.9'1;
~Plut:Pomp_7'1-5;*
{ CAH_9'191; OCD³.}
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| 10
| ITA Pompeius joins Sulla, who honours him with the title of "imperator".
* Read Plutarch's account
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Sall:Hist_5'16;L
Diod_38.10'1;
ValMax_5.2'9;
~Plut:Pomp_8'1-4,*
:Crass_6'4,
:Mor_806'E;
+Appian:BCiv_1'80;
{ CAH_9'187.}
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| 11
| Cethegus, Philippus and other senators join Sulla.
* Read Cicero's account
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Cic:ProvCon_21;*
+[Liv]:Per_85;
+Appian:BCiv_1'80.(↓)
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| 12
| Sulla defeats Norbanus at Canusium.
* Read Appian's account
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+[Liv]:Per_85;
FGrH_252'A4;
+Vell_2.25'2,
'4;
+Plut:Sull_27'10;
Flor_2.9'19;
+Appian:BCiv_1'84;*
+Eutrop_5.7'4;
+Oros_5.20'2;
{ CAH_9'189; OCD³.}
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| 13
| Sulla makes a dedication of land and water to Diana on Mount Tifata.
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+Vell_2.25'4.
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| 14
| PON Mithridates puts his son to death on suspicion of treason, and prepares to fight against the rebels in Bosporus.
* Read Appian's account
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Memn_25'3;
~Appian:Mith_64;*
{ Green_653.}
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| 15
| ROM {6 July -R} A fire destroys many of the buildings on the Capitol at Rome.
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Cic:Cat_3.9;
Sall:Cat_47'2;
Liv_6.4'3,
25.39'17;
[Liv]:Per_98;
Plin:HN_13'88;L
+Tac:Hist_3'72;
#Plut:Sull_27'13;
Tac:Ann_6'12;
Plut:Publ_15'1,
:Mor_379'C;
+Appian:BCiv_1'86;*
+Obseq_57;
+Hieron:Chron_1933;
August:DeCiv_2'24;(↓)
{ CAH_9'189; OCD³.}
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| 16
| ?? Cicero is a pupil of Philon, an Academic philosopher, who encourages him to study philosophy and rhetoric.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Cic:Tusc_2'9,
'26,
:ND_1'6,
:Off_2'4;
Tac:Dial_32'6;
Plut:Cic_3'1-2.*
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| 16a
| ++ General remarks on the life and teaching of the philosopher Philon.
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Cic:Acad_2'17,
'69,
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| 17
| The death of Philon of Larissa.
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+Phld:Acad_33.
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| 18
| SYR Tigranes invades and conquers Syria.
* Read Justin's account
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Strab_11'532,(14.15)
14'669;(5.2)
Joseph:AJ_13'419;
Appian:Syr_48,
69,(↓)
:Mith_106;
~Just_40.1'1-4,*
2'3;
Trog:Prol_40;
Eutrop_6.14'2;
Malal_211;
{ Green_553.}
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| 20
| ITA M.Piso refuses to serve as quaestor under L.Scipio.
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+Cic:Verr_2.1'37.
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| 21
| Sertorius captures Suessa.
* Read Appian's account
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+Appian:BCiv_1'85,*
'108;
{ CAH_9'190.}
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| 22
| Scipio is deserted by his army, after entering into negotiations with Sulla.
* Read Appian's account
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Cic:Phil_12'27,
13'1;
Sall:Hist_1'29,L
'81;L
Diod_38.16'1;
+[Liv]:Per_85;
+Vell_2.25'2-3;
Plut:Sert_6'1-3,
+:Sull_28'1-6;
+Appian:BCiv_1'85-86;*
DioCass_fr.107'2-3;
+Eutrop_5.7'4;
Exsuper_45;
Schol:Bob_126;L
{ CAH_9'189-190.}
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| 23
| ETR Crassus collects new recruits for Sulla from amongst the Marsi.
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~Plut:Crass_6'2-3.
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| 24
| CAP Archelaus escapes from Mithridates, and goes to join Murena.
* Read Appian's account
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~Appian:Mith_64;* (↓)
DioCass_39.57'2;
Oros_6.2'12.
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| 25
| Murena attacks Comana, and rejects an embassy from Mithridates: the start of the "second Mithridatic war".
* Read Appian's account
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~Appian:Mith_64,* (↓)
66;(↓)
{ CAH_9'789; ~ DPRR.}
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| 26
| ROM {13 Sept. -R} P.Quinctius returns to Rome, in response to a court summons.
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#Cic:Quinct_28-30,
40-41.
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| 27
| ITA Sulla advances against Norbanus at Capua, but Norbanus avoids him.
* Read Plutarch's account
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+Plut:Sull_27'11;*
+Appian:BCiv_1'86.
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| 28
| ETR Crassus captures the town of Tuder.
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~Plut:Crass_6'5.
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| 29
| ITA Sertorius abandons the war in Italy; he recruits more supporters in Etruria and then leaves for his province in Spain.
* Read Appian's account
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+Vell_2.25'3;
Flor_2.10'1-2;
+Appian:BCiv_1'86,*
'108;
Ampel_18'17;
Exsuper_46-48;
{ CAH_9'191; OCD³.}
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| 30
| ROM The young C.Marius is elected consul, despite being far below the legal age.
* Read Livy's account
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Sall:Hist_1'30;
~[Liv]:Per_86;*
[Vict]:VirIll_68'1;
(?)
Exsuper_30;
{ CAH_9'191; OCD³.}
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| 31
| Marius and the consuls recruit more troops, to carry on the fighting in the next year.
* Read Appian's account
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~Diod_38.12'1-13'1;
+Appian:BCiv_1'86.* (↓)
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| 32
| ITA Document: CIL_1.720, an inscription in honour of Sulla at Suessa.
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| 33
| ROM ?? Document: [Cic]:RhetHer_,L the "Rhetorica ad Herennium" ascribed to Cicero.
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| 34
| ?? The grammarian Staberius Eros, the poet Publilius Syrus and the astronomer Manilius all arrive on the same ship, as slaves from (?) Antioch.
* Read Suetonius' account
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Plin:HN_35'199;
Suet:Gram_13;*
{ Staberius Eros established himself as a teacher at Rome in the lifetime of Sulla.}
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| 35
| ++ The luxurious lifestyle of Carvilius Pollio, who is the first person at Rome to have silver fittings on his dinner-couches.
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Plin:HN_33'144,
'146;
{ Before Sulla's victory in the civil war.}
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