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| 1 | BAE << Fabius spends the winter at Corduba.
@ ~Appian:Hisp_65.(↓) |
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| 1a | EGY {16 Tybi -E = February} Document: BD_111, record of the decision of a court at Crocodilopolis in a case between Asclapon and Antigone. { The date of this document is not certain; it may instead be 154 B.C.} |
| 2 | SPA Outbreak of war between Numantia and Rome.
* Read Florus' account @ Flor_1.34'4;* ~Appian:Hisp_66, 76; { CAH_8'134=144/3; OCD³.} |
| 3 | SYR ?? The "Wicked Priest" pursues (? and kills) the "Teacher of Righteousness", the leader of the Essenes, who is in exile at Damascus.
@ Qumran_CD'6, 'B1-B2, 1QpHab'5,(1.13) '8-12,(2.7-17) 4Q171'4;B { On the assumption, which is far from certain, that the "Wicked Priest" was Jonathan.} |
| 4 | PAL << Jonathan sends an embassy to renew the treaties with Rome and Sparta.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ ~1Macc_12'1-23;* Joseph:AJ_13'163-173; +Hieron:Chron_1873; { This diplomatic activity may have occurred in the gap between the campaigns of 144 and 143 B.C.} |
| 5 | << The Jews of Jerusalem appeal for help to the Jews of Egypt.
@ +2Macc_1'7-9. |
| 6 | CIS The Salassi defeat Ap.Claudius.
* Read Dio's account @ DioCass_fr.74'1-2;* +Obseq_21; +Oros_5.4'7. |
| 7 | SPA Metellus subdues the Arevaci.
* Read Appian's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_53; Frontin:Str_3.7'3, 4.1'11, 7'42; Flor_1.33'13-14; ~Appian:Hisp_76;* [Vict]:VirIll_61'3; ~Eutrop_4.16'1; { DPRR.} |
| 8 | LUS Viriathus defeats Claudius Unimanus.
* Read Appian's account @ Flor_1.33'16; ~Appian:Hisp_66;* [Vict]:VirIll_71'1; ~Oros_5.4'3-6; { CAH_8'133.} |
| 9 | PAL Jonathan foils a Syrian night attack near Hamath.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ ~1Macc_12'24-34;* Joseph:AJ_13'174-180. |
| 10 | Jonathan restores the walls and fortifications of Jerusalem.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ ~1Macc_12'35-38;* Joseph:AJ_13'181-183; { CAH_8'366.} |
| 11 | CIS Ap.Claudius subdues the Salassi.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_53;* +Oros_5.4'7; { OCD³.} |
| 12 | SPA Metellus besieges Contrebia.
* Read Velleius' account @ +[Liv]:EpOx_53'160-163;L Vell_2.5'2-3;* ValMax_2.7'10, 5.1'5, 7.4'5; Frontin:Str_1.1'12, 4.1'23; Plut:Mor_201'F-202'A; Flor_1.33'10; Ampel_18'14; [Vict]:VirIll_61'4. |
| 13 | PHO Tryphon lures Jonathan to Ptolemais and captures him.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ ~1Macc_12'39-53;* Joseph:BJ_1'49, :AJ_13'187-193, 20'239; Sulpit_2'25; { CAH_8'367.} |
| 14 | ROM Ap.Claudius holds an unauthorized triumph, with the support of his daughter Claudia, who is a Vestal virgin.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Cael_34;* ValMax_5.4'6; Suet:Tib_2'4; DioCass_fr.74'2; +Oros_5.4'7; { CAH_8'192; DPRR.} |
| 15 | PEL << Document: Syll_686, the base of a statue of Polybius at Olympia. |
| 15a | ASI << Document: SEG_53.1312.B, a decree of Metropolis in Ionia, in honour of Apollonius. |
| 16 | PAL Simon becomes the leader of the Jews.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ ~1Macc_13'1-11;* MegTaan_6'1; Joseph:AJ_13'194-202; Sulpit_2'26; { CAH_8'367; Green_714.} |
| 17 | Tryphon invades Judaea, and attempts to extort a ransom from Simon.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ ~1Macc_13'12-21;* Joseph:BJ_1'49, :AJ_13'203-208. |
| 18 | ROM The senate debates the Roman water supply.
@ +Frontin:Aqu_1'7. |
| 19 | == The enactment of the Lex Didia, a law curbing excessive expenditure on luxuries.
@ ~Macrob:Sat_3.17'6;L { CAH_8'184; CAH_9'59.} |
| 20 | == The birth of the orator M.Antonius.
* Read Cicero's account @ ~Cic:DeOr_2'364, :Brut_161;* { Three years before the birth of Crassus.} |
| 21 | == Document: Syll_679, a decree of the senate concerning a dispute between Magnesia and Priene. |
| 22 | GRE == Document: Syll_680, a statue of Q.Metellus dedicated by a citizen of Thessalonice. |
| 22 | MAC ?? Document: Sherk_36,B a milestone with the name of Cn.Egnatius, from the Via Egnatia near Thessalonice. |
| 23 | PEL << Document: BD_46 (Syll_684), a letter from Q.Fabius to the city of Dyme, describing the suppression of an attempted revolution in the city. { a revised date, as proposed by R.Kallet-Marx, CQ 1995, pp.129-153.} |
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