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1 | ROM {January} The consuls decide not to publish Antonius' dispatches concerning his activities in the eastern provinces.
@ +DioCass_49.41'4-5; { CAH_10'41.} |
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2 | Sosius speaks out against Octavianus in the senate.
@ +DioCass_50.2'3-4. |
3 | Octavianus appears in the senate with an armed guard, and the consuls leave Rome to join Antonius.
@ Suet:Aug_17'2; +DioCass_50.2'5-7; { CAH_10'49-50; Syme_p278.} |
4 | EGY {30 Phamenoth -E = March} Document: OGIS_196, recording a visit to Philae by C. Julius Papius. |
4a | NAR {29 March} Document: CIL_add.11, a graffito on a wall in Glanum. |
5 | ROM ++ The amiable and cultured character of T. Pomponius Atticus.
@ Nepos:Att_6'1-5, 13'1-18'6. |
6 | {31 March} The death of Atticus.
@ #Nepos:Att_21'1-22'4; { CAH_10'883; OCD³.} |
7 | Antonius formally divorces Octavia.
* Read Plutarch's account @ [Liv]:Per_132; Plut:Ant_57'4-5;* +DioCass_50.3'2; Eutrop_7.6'1; Hieron:Chron_1984; Oros_6.19'4; Malal_219; { CAH_10'51; Hölbl_p245.} |
7a | ASI << Document: SEG_61.978, altars dedicated to Cleopatra and Ptolemy at Teos. |
8 | GRE Antonius goes to Greece, where he stays for the rest of the year.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Ant_57'1-3;* DioCass_49.44'3, +50.9'2-6; { Hölbl_p245; Syme_p280.} |
9 | PER The Parthians conquer Media Atropatene.
@ DioCass_49.44'4; { OHIH_p173.} |
10 | PAL Herodes defeats the Nabataean Arabs.
@ Joseph:BJ_1'364-367, '388, :AJ_15'108-115, '189. |
11 | ROM Plancus and Titius desert from Antonius to Octavianus.
* Read Velleius' account @ Vell_2.83'1-3;* Plut:Ant_58'4; +DioCass_50.3'1-3; { CAH_10'51; OCD³.} |
12 | ARM Artaxias is established as king of Armenia by the Parthians.
@ Movses_2'24; { OHIH_p173.} |
13 | PAL The Arabs defeat Herodes, with the assistance of one of Cleopatra's generals.
@ Joseph:BJ_1'367-369, :AJ_15'115-120; { Smallwood_p67.} |
14 | ROM Octavianus seizes the will of Antonius, and reads it in the senate.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Ant_58'5-11;* Suet:Aug_17'1; +DioCass_50.3'4-5, 20'7; { Syme_p282.} |
15 | GRE Geminius fails to persuade Antonius to send Cleopatra back to Egypt.
@ ~Plut:Ant_59'1-5. |
16 | ITA All Italy takes an oath of allegiance to Octavianus.
* Read Augustus' account @ Aug:ResGest_25;* Plut:Ant_58'1-3; Suet:Aug_17'2; { CAH_10'53; Syme_p284-291.} |
17 | EGY According to the poets, Cleopatra hopes to conquer Rome.
* Read Propertius' account @ Prop_3.11'29-49;* Hor:Od_1.37'6-12; Ovid:Met_15'827-828; Lucan_10'60-67; Eutrop_7.7'1; Malal_219. |
18 | ROM The Romans declare war on Cleopatra.
* Read Dio's account @ Plut:Ant_60'1; Appian:BCiv_4'45; +DioCass_50.4'1-6'1;* { CAH_10'54; Hölbl_p246.} |
19 | Pollio refuses to join in fighting against Antonius.
@ Vell_2.86'3. |
20 | == Octavianus starts to restore the temple of Jupiter Feretrius.
* Read Nepos' account @ Aug:ResGest_19; ~Nepos:Att_20'3;* Liv_4.20'7; { CAH_10'788=31; apparently not completed until at least 27 B.C.} |
21 | == Domitius builds baths on the Via Sacra.
@ Seneca:Contr_9.4'18;L { during his consulship.} |
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