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| 1 | ROM T.Torquatus judges his son Silanus guilty of extortion in Macedonia, and Silanus commits suicide.
* Read Livy's account @ Cic:Fin_1'24, '34, '35; ~[Liv]:Per_54,* +:EpOx_54'178-181;L ValMax_5.8'3. |
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| 2 | LUS << Viriathus defeats the Romans under Fabius near the town of Erisane.
* Read Appian's account @ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'185;L ~Appian:Hisp_68-69;* (↓) { CAH_8'134.} |
| 3 | Treaty between Viriathus and Fabius.
* Read Appian's account @ ~Diod_33.1'4; ~[Liv]:Per_54, +:EpOx_54'186;L ~Appian:Hisp_69;* Charax_26-27; +Obseq_23; [Vict]:VirIll_71'2; { CAH_8'134; OCD³.} |
| 4 | SPA Pompeius suffers reverses at Numantia.
* Read Appian's account @ ~Appian:Hisp_78;* DioCass_fr.77'1; { In the summer before Pompeius made a treaty with the Numantines.} |
| 5 | MES Demetrius invades Mesopotamia.
* Read Josephus' account @ +1Macc_14'1; Joseph:AJ_13'184-186;* ~Just_36.1'1-4, 38.9'2; ![Euseb]:Chron_255; { CAH_8'368, '371.} |
| 6 | EGY << Ptolemy Physcon marries his step-daughter Cleopatra, and brutally suppresses opposition in Alexandria, forcing many scholars to emigrate.
* Read Justin's account @ Burstein_106'28-38;B ValMax_9.1e'5; Ampel_35'5; (?) POxy_1241; Athen_4.184'b-c<q" Menecles>; Just_38.8'5-7;* SHA:Carac_6'3; { CAH_9'311; OCD³=140/39; Bennett.} |
| 6a | {9 Payni -E = July} The foundation of the pronaos of the temple at Edfu.
@ AET_8.13'F. { Hölbl_p265.} |
| 7 | ROM Laelius withdraws his proposed agrarian law.
@ Plut:TGrac_8'5; { CAH_8'195; DPRR.} |
| 8 | Appius Claudius prevents extra conscription.
@ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'176-178;L { CAH_8'194; CAH_9'60.} |
| 9 | ROM Asellus attempts to stop the consul Caepio leaving for his province.
@ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'182-184.L |
| 10 | PAL {18 Elul -J = Sept.} The Jews set up an inscription in honour of Simon.
@ #1Macc_14'25-49; { CAH_8'368=141; CAH_9'285; Green_523-524.} |
| 10a | EGY {16 Mesore -E = Sept.} Document: AET_7.25, the sale of an empty plot at Djeme. |
| 11 | ROM Scipio Aemilianus is brought to trial by the tribune Claudius Asellus.
* Read Gellius' account @ Lucil_424-425; Cic:DeOr_2'258; Gell_3.4'1-3;* { CAH_8'178-179; CAH_9'60.} |
| 12 | The senate discusses religious objections to bringing water from the river Anio into Rome.
* Read Frontinus' account @ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'188-190;L +Frontin:Aqu_1'7.* |
| 13 | LUS Q.Occius is attacked by the Lusitani.
@ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'186-188.L |
| 13a | CRE == C.Laelius asks the city of Magnesia to arbitrate between Itanus and Hierapytna.
@ Syll_685.A'50-51, B'19-25. |
| 14 | AS1 ?? Document: Austin_246,B a letter from Attalus praising his son's tutor, a citizen of Ephesus. |
| 15 | ARM << The births of Tigranes of Armenia and Tiraeus of Charax.
@ ~Lucian:Macr_15, 16. |
| 16 | ROM ?? L.Mummius is unable to afford a dowry for his daughter.
@ Plin:HN_34'36; { ~ OCD³.} |
| 17 | == The birth of the orator L.Crassus.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:DeOr_2'364, +:Brut_160-162;* { OCD³.} |
| 18 | == Accius and Pacuvius both produce plays during this year, though Pacuvius is now 80 years old.
@ ~Cic:Brut_229; { Pacuvius was born in 220 B.C.} |
| 19 | ++ General remarks on the career of P.Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum.
@ Diod_34.33'1; Justin:Dig_1.2.2'37<q" Pomponius>; { Nasica was princeps senatus in 147 B.C., but is not mentioned after that date.} |
| 19a | ?? Document: Syll_674, a decree of the senate and the praetor C.Mancinus, concerning Melitaea and Narthacium in Thessaly. |
| 20 | ETR ?? Document: CIL_1.632, a dedication by L.Munius to Hercules at Reate. |
| 21 | GRE ?? The death of the philosopher Critolaus, who is succeeded as head of the Peripatetic school by Diodorus of Tyre.
@ ~Lucian:Macr_20; ClemAl:Strom_1'14 { Critolaus visited Rome in 155 B.C., but his dates are otherwise unknown.} |
| 22 | ++ Comments on the life and character of Philonides, an Epicurean philosopher.
@ Phld:Phil_5-50. |
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