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114 B.C. Olympiad 166.3


Consuls: M'. Acilius M.f. Balbus, C. Porcius M.f. Cato

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1 EGY {23 Phamenoth -E = April} Document: PTeb_7, a decree about law suits brought against subordinates of the finance administration.
2 {3 Pachon -E = May} Document: SelPap_2.378, a receipt for sales tax paid by Senpoeris.
3 {19 Pachon -E = June} Document: PTeb_19, a letter from Polemon to Menches.
4 {? Pachon -E = June} Document: PTeb_44, a petition to Menches from Haryotes.
5 {11 Payni -E = June} Document: PTeb_17, another letter from Polemon to Menches.
6 MOE The consul Cato is defeated by the Scordisci.
* Read Florus' account
Diod_34.30a'1-30c'1; +[Liv]:Per_63; Flor_1.39'1-4; DioCass_fr.88'1; +Eutrop_4.24'1; AmmMarc_27.4'4; { CAH_9'32.}
6a CAP << Nicomedes invades Cappadocia, and forces Laodice, the sister of Mithridates, to become his wife.
Just_38.1'1-5; { This must have happened soon after the death of Ariarathes VI, and not as Justinus says, shortly before the death of Ariarathes VII.}
6b PEL << Document: IG_4.558, a decree of the Dionysiac artists at Argos.
7 EGY {12 Epeiph -E = July} Document: PTeb_57, a letter from Petenephies.
8 {Epeiph -E = July} Document: PTeb_13, a letter from Menches to Ptolemaeus (? the strategus).
9 BAE Marius as propraetor curbs banditry in Further Spain.
~Plut:Mar_6'1; { ~OCD_m; Green_718.}
10 EGY {2 Mesore -E = August} Document: PTeb_15, two letters from Menches to Horus.
11 Document: PTeb_16, another letter from Menches to Horus.
12 MOE The Scordisci defeat and kill Lucullus, the commander of the garrison at Heracleia.
Frontin:Str_3.10'7; { This incident probably occurred in the aftermath of the defeat of Cato.}
13 EGY << Document: PTeb_18, a letter from Polemon to Menches.
14 {14 Phaophi -E = Nov.} Document: PTeb_14, a letter from Menches to Horus.
15 {20 Phaophi -E = Nov.} Document: PTeb_26 & 71, a letter from Horus and a report on irrigation and sowing.
16 {? Hathyr -E = Nov.} Document: PTeb_39, a petition from Apollodorus to Menches.
SelPap_2.276.
17 ?? Document: PTeb_23, a letter from Marres to Menches.
18 ROM << The daughter of L.Helvius is killed by a bolt of lightning.
* Read Plutarch's account
Plut:Mor_284'A; +Obseq_37; ~Oros_5.15'20-21; { CAH_9'747.}
19 {16 December -R} The Vestal virgin Aemilia is found guilty of breaking her vow of chastity.
* Read Dio's account
+[Liv]:Per_63; Plut:Mor_284'B; DioCass_fr.87'1-5; +Obseq_37; ~Oros_5.15'22; #Macrob:Sat_1.10'5;L  { CAH_9'747.}
20 {18 December -R} The Vestal virgin Licinia is acquitted after speeches by L.Crassus and C.Curio.
* Read Cicero's account
Cic:Brut_122, 124, 160; Ascon_46;L  #Macrob:Sat_1.10'6;L  Schol:Bob_85.
21 The census is completed, with a total of over 394,000 Roman citizens.
+[Liv]:Per_63; { CAH_9'783.}
21a EGY {10 Choiak -E = December} Document: AET_6.4'C, a demotic divorce document.
22 ROM == Sulpicia is chosen, as the chastest woman in Rome, to dedicate the temple of Venus Verticordia.
Ovid:Fast_4'157-160; ValMax_8.15'12; Plin:HN_7'120; +Obseq_37.
23 == The birth of the orator Q.Hortensius.
* Read Cicero's account
~Cic:Brut_229-230, 301, 324; { OCD_h.}
24 == Omens, including the appearance of a circle around the sun, and a rainshower of milk and blood.
+Plin:HN_2'98, +'147.

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