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| 1 | EGY Demetrius attempts to invade Egypt.
* Read Justin's account @ ~Just_39.1'2;* ~[Euseb]:Chron_257; { Green_716=129; Hölbl_p200.} |
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| 1a | GRE Document: SEG_21.469, an Athenian decree renewing the festival of Thargelia in honour of Apollo. |
| 2 | << Cleitomachus becomes head of the Academy, following the death of Crates of Tarsus.
* Read Apollodorus' account @ ~Apollod:Fr_55,* 56; { When Lyciscus was Athenian archon; CAH_8'162=127/6.} |
| 3 | MES Himerus becomes notorious for greed and cruelty, after Phraates appoints him to be viceroy of Babylon.
* Read Athenaeus' account @ ~Diod_34.21'1; Athen_11.466'b-c;* ~Just_42.1'3; Trog:Prol_42. |
| 4 | ?? The Parthians fortify Ctesiphon, opposite Seleuceia on the river Tigris.
@ Plin:HN_6'122; { ~ OCD³.} |
| 5 | SYR The Syrians defect from Demetrius in his absence.
* Read Josephus' account @ Joseph:AJ_13'267;* ~Just_39.1'3. |
| 6 | Ptolemy VIII sets up Alexander Zabinas as a pretender to the throne of Syria.
* Read Justin's account @ Joseph:AJ_13'268; ~Just_39.1'4-5;* Trog:Prol_39; ~[Euseb]:Chron_257;(↓) { Green_540; Hölbl_p200.} |
| 7 | PER The defeat and death of Phraates of Parthia in battle against the Scythians, and the accession of Artabanus.
@ ~Just_42.1'4-2'1; { CAH_8'372; OHIH_p172=126.} |
| 8 | ROM << Q.Aelius Tubero fails to be elected as praetor.
@ ValMax_7.5'1. |
| 9 | AEG << Document: Sherk_46,B the inscription from a statue put up in honour of Cn.Domitius at Samos. |
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