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1 | ITA {14 February -R} Document: CIL_1.682, a statute of the Pagus Herculaneus in Campania. |
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2 | ROM {5 April -R} Document: CIL_1.2663, an "inspection ticket" of Philoxenus. |
3 | SPA Scipio Nasica subdues some Spanish rebels.
@ +Obseq_51. |
3a | MES {? July} Document: BabylChron_20, a Babylonian chronicle which mentions digging work by the river Euphrates. |
4 | ROM L.Philippus is beaten by M.Herennius in the election for next year's consuls.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Mur_36,* :Brut_166. |
5 | SYR << Antiochus Epiphanes is drowned in the river Orontes after being defeated by Antiochus Eusebes.
* Read Josephus' account @ ~Joseph:AJ_13'369;* Trog:Prol_40; ~[Euseb]:Chron_261; { CAH_8'517.} |
6 | AS1 The proconsul Q.Scaevola corrects abuses in the Roman administration of Asia, with the help of P.Rutilius.
* Read Diodorus' account @ Cic:Planc_33, :Att_6.1'15; ~Diod_37.5'1-6'1;* ~[Liv]:Per_70; ValMax_8.15'6; Ascon_15;L Justin:Dig_1.2.2'40<q" Pomponius>; SHA:Gord_5'5; { ~OCD_s; Green_560.} |
7 | CAP << Sulla meets Orobazus, a Parthian envoy, by the river Euphrates, and a magus foretells his future greatness.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_70; Vell_2.24'3; ~Plut:Sull_5'8-11;* Ampel_31'2; Festus:Brev_15'2; { CAH_9'786<96-92>; OCD_s<96-93>.} |
8 | ROM A decree of the senate forbids loans to provincial envoys.
@ +Ascon_57<+v>.L |
9 | PON ?? Nicomedes III sends his concubine Hagne and her son Socrates to Cyzicus.
@ GranLic_29. |
10 | << The death of Nicomedes III of Bithynia; he is succeeded by his son Nicomedes IV.
@ GranLic_29-30; { CAH_9'142; OCD_n.} |
11 | PAL << Alexander Jannaeus is defeated by Obedas the king of the Arabs.
* Read Josephus' account @ Joseph:BJ_1'90, ~:AJ_13'374-375;* { This was followed by the rebellion in Judaea.} |
12 | << Alexander Jannaeus kills 50,000 of his Jewish subjects during a rebellion.
* Read Josephus' account @ Joseph:BJ_1'91,* :AJ_13'376; { ~CAH_9'307; this civil war lasted for six years, until 89/88 B.C.} |
13 | NAR == C.Carbo is treated kindly by L.Crassus, the governor of Gaul.
@ ~ValMax_3.7'6; { DPRR.} |
14 | ROM == The birth of the poet T.Lucretius.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1923; { OCD_l; Green_720=96?.} |
15 | == An eclipse of the moon.
@ +Obseq_51. |
16 | AS1 == Document: OGIS_437, a letter of Q.Scaevola, followed by a treaty between Ephesus and Sardis. |
17 | GRE == Document: Syll_732, part of an alliance between Rome and Thyrrheium. |
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