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| 1 | ROM  The people assign the command in Numidia to Marius, who begins his preparations. @ +Sall:Jug_84'1-86'3; CIL_6.41024; Vell_2.11'2; ValMax_2.3'1; +Plut:Mar_9'1-4; Flor_1.36'13; Gell_16.10'14, '16; Exsuper_7-13; { CAH_9'30; DPRR.} | 
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| 2 | GAL  The Tigurini defeat and kill L.Cassius; the remnants of the Roman army are allowed to escape after surrendering their possessions. * Read Caesar's account @ [Cic]:RhetHer_1'25; +Caes:BGall_1.7'4, 12'5-7,* 14'1-2; +[Liv]:Per_65; Appian:Gall_1'8;(20b) +Oros_5.15'23-24; { CAH_9'24, '93.} | 
| 3 | NUM ++  General remarks on Metellus' successes in the war against Jugurtha. @ ValMax_2.7'2. | 
| 4 | Marius arrives in Numidia, and captures Capsa. @ +Sall:Jug_86'4-91'7; Strab_17'831;(3.12) +Plut:Mar_10'1; Flor_1.36'13-14; +Oros_5.15'8; { CAH_9'784.} | 
| 5 | EGY {Sept./Oct.}  Cleopatra forces Ptolemy Lathyrus to escape to Cyprus, and Ptolemy Alexander takes over as king. * Read Pausanias' account @ Joseph:AJ_13'328; Paus_1.9'1-2;* ~[Euseb]:Chron_163,(↓) 165, 171; !Hieron:Chron_1919; ChronSynt_91; { CAH_9'315; Bennett.} | 
| 6 | ROM {28 October -R}  The triumph of Q.Caepio, from further Spain. @ #FastTr_p107; { CAH_9'784; DPRR.} | 
| 7 | PAL << {25 Heshvan -J = November}  Hyrcanus destroys Samaria. * Read Josephus' account @ MegTaan_3'2, #8'2; Joseph:BJ_1'65-66,* ~:AJ_13'280-283; !Hieron:Chron_1898. | 
| 8 | EGY {28 Phaophi -E = November} Document: SelPap_1.27, a contract for the sale, by Taous and others, of land at Crocodilopolis. | 
| 9 | CHE ?? Document: BD_48 (Syll_709), a decree of Chersonesus in honour of Diophantus, the general of Mithridates. | 
| 10 | PON <<  The occupation of Paphlagonia by Mithridates and Nicomedes - regarded by some as the start of the Mithridatic Wars. * Read Justin's account @ Flor_1.40'2; ~Appian:Mith_62, 112, 118; ~Just_37.1'7, 4'3;* Festus:Brev_11'3; Eutrop_6.12'3; August:DeCiv_5'22;(↓) ~Oros_6.1'30; =hog { CAH_9'141; Green_719=103.} | 
| 11 | ROM  The tribune C.Coelius charges C.Popillius with treason for his part in Cassius' defeat, and passes a law to extend the secret ballot to such cases. * Read Anon's account @ [Cic]:RhetHer_1'25,* 4'34; Cic:Leg_3'36;L ~Oros_5.15'24; { CAH_9'45; OCD³.} | 
| 12 | ==  Granius invites the tribune L.Crassus to a banquet. * Read Cicero's account @ Lucil_595-614; ~Cic:Brut_160-161;* { In the year before Caepio's law about juries.} | 
| 13 | ==  Omens, including the appearance of a "fire-bird" and an eagle-owl. @ +Plin:HN_10'36; !Obseq_40. | 
| 14 | ++  The dissolute lifestyle of L.Sulla, as a young man. * Read Plutarch's account @ ValMax_6.9'6; Plut:Sull_1'2-7,* 2'3, '6-8, :Mor_318'C. | 
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