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| 1 | ROM The Athenians and Delians send embassies to Rome about a legal dispute.
@ ~Polyb_32.7'1-5; { Walbank_p525.} |
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| 2 | CAP << Orophernes drives Ariarathes out of Cappadocia.
* Read Diodorus' account @ Polyb_3.5'2; Diod_31.32'1;* ~[Liv]:Per_47; Appian:Syr_47; Trog:Prol_34; Zonar_9'24;(p359) { CAH_8'359.} |
| 3 | GRE << Cleitomachus becomes a pupil of Carneades.
* Read Apollodorus' account @ ~Apollod:Fr_56;* Plut:Mor_328'C; { ~ OCD³.} |
| 3a | MAC << The birth of the philosopher Philon of Larissa.
@ Phld:Acad_33. |
| 4 | ASI ?? The poet Leschides accompanies Eumenes on his campaigns.
@ Suda_L'311. |
| 5 | ?? Eumenes creates a library at Pergamon by collecting a large number of books, which are written on parchment when the Egyptians ban the export of papyrus.
* Read Vitruvius' account @ Vitr_7.pr'4;* Strab_13'609.(1.54) |
| 6 | LYC ?? Document: RC_54 (OGIS_751), a letter from Attalus to Amlada. |
| 6a | ASI ?? Document: SEG_47.1745, three letters from Eumenes to the inhabitants of Tyriaeum. |
| 6b | ?? Document: RC_53, a letter from Eumenes to the Dionysiac artists at Teos. |
| 6c | ?? Document: SEG_36.1048, a decree of Myūs, granting divine honours to Eumenes. |
| 7 | ++ General remarks on the character of Eumenes, a wise and loyal king.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_32.8'1-7;* Sall:Hist_4.67'8; Suda_E'3579. |
| 8 | << The death of Eumenes II, and accession of Attalus II.
* Read Strabo's account @ OGIS_264'C; FGrH_506'1; ~Polyb_32.12'1; Diod_31.36'1; Strab_13'624;* (4.2) Plut:Mor_184'B, 489'F; Trog:Prol_34; { CAH_8'334; OCD³; see also Walbank_p526.} |
| 8a | EXT << After the death of Saurmag, Mirvan becomes king of the Iberians.
@ ChronGeorg_3-4;(↓↓) { Traditional date, according to C.Toumanoff.} |
| 9 | ROM The censors P.Scipio Nasica and M.Popillius complete the census.
* Read Fasti's account @ ~FastCap_p66;* ~[Liv]:Per_47; Vell_2.3'1; Gell_4.20'11. |
| 10 | {19 August -R} The triumph of M.Fulvius, over the Eleates.
@ #FastTr_p105. |
| 11 | Ariarathes arrives in Rome after his expulsion from Cappadocia.
@ Polyb_31.10'1; { CAH_8'359.} |
| 12 | ASI {20 Dios -M} Document: SEG_44.1108, a letter of Attalus II to Olbasa in Pisidia. |
| 13 | GRE Document: THI_123, the record of a loan to the city of Drymaea. |
| 14 | MAC == The mines in Macedonia are reopened.
@ +Cassiod:Chr_596. |
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