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| 1 | AEG Document: RC_52 (OGIS_763), a letter from Eumenes II to the Ionian League. |
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| 2 | ROM {4 April -R = ?February} Document: Ter:And, Terentius' comedy "Andria", which is first performed at the Megalensia.
* Read Suetonius' account @ [Suet]:Ter_2;* Hieron:Chron_1859; #Hyp:Ter_And; { OCD_t; Green_710.} |
| 3 | PAL << Eleazar is put to death for refusing to eat unclean meat.
* Read 2Maccabees' account @ ~2Macc_6'18-31;* 4Macc_5'1-7'23; Malal_206; Suda_A'2693. |
| 4 | << Seven brothers and their mother are put to death for refusing to eat unclean meat.
* Read 4Maccabees' account @ ~2Macc_7'1-42; 4Macc_1'8-10, 8'1-18'24;* Sulpit_2'20. |
| 5 | Mattathias disrupts the pagan sacrifices at Modin: beginning of the Maccabaean revolt.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ (?) Daniel_11'34-35; ~1Macc_2'1-28;* Joseph:BJ_1'36, :AJ_12'268-272, '279, :Ap_2'134; Porph:Fr_52, 54; [Euseb]:Chron_123-125,(↓) 127-129;(↓) !Hieron:Chron_1848; Sulpit_2'20; ChronSynt_95;(↓) { Green_517.} |
| 6 | ROM The Rhodians send an embassy, led by Aristoteles, but the senate again refuses to agree to an alliance.
@ ~Polyb_30.23'1-24'2; { Walbank_p32-33.} |
| 6b | GRE << The death of Telecles, an Academic philosopher.
@ +Apollod:Fr_47; Phld:Acad_N.B |
| 6c | THR << Document: SEG_35.823, a treaty between Rome and Maroneia. |
| 7 | AEG ?? Document: Austin_143,B a decree of the Dionysiac artists in honour of Craton son of Zotichus. |
| 7a | ASI ?? Document: THI_202, a decree of Apameia in Phrygia, in honour of a gymnasiarch. |
| 8 | AEG Ti.Gracchus delivers a speech in Greek at Rhodes.
@ Cic:Brut_79; { Probably on his way out to Syria.} |
| 9 | PAL {18 Hecatombaion -A? = July/August} The Samaritans disown their kinship with the Jews.
* Read Josephus' account @ #Joseph:AJ_12'257-264;* !Hieron:Chron_1848. |
| 10 | CIS The consuls campaign against the Gauls and Ligurians.
* Read Livy's account @ [Liv]:Per_46;* +Obseq_12. |
| 11 | PAL Mattathias escapes with others into the wilderness, and instructs his followers to fight on the sabbath day, when necessary.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ ~1Macc_2'29-41;* 2Macc_6'11; Joseph:BJ_1'37, :AJ_12'272-277; Porph:Fr_57; Sulpit_2'20. |
| 12 | Eumenes defeats the Galatians.
* Read Diodorus' account @ RC_54'5-8; SEG_57.1150.A'14-15, B'3; Diod_31.14'1;* { CAH_8'333; Green_710.} |
| 13 | SYR Antiochus holds a magnificent festival and games at Daphne.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_30.25'1-26'9;* Diod_31.16'1-3; Athen_10.439'b-d; { CAH_8'345; Green_438.} |
| 14 | MES Document: OGIS_253, a dedication to Antiochus as founder of Babylon. |
| 15 | PAL Mattathias and his supporters carry out attacks on hellenizing Jews.
* Read 1Maccabees' account @ ~1Macc_2'42-48;* ~2Macc_8'1-7; Joseph:AJ_12'278. |
| 16 | ROM Octavius is elected consul after a hard-fought contest.
@ Cic:Off_1'138; +Obseq_12; { CAH_8'178.} |
| 17 | SYR Ti.Gracchus arrives to assess the situation in Syria, and is entertained by Antiochus.
* Read Polybius' account @ ~Polyb_30.27'1-4;* Diod_31.17'1; { CAH_8'345; Green_438.} |
| 18 | ROM {1 Intercal. -R = ?December} The triumph of Marcellus, over the Contrubrii, Ligurians, and Eleates.
@ #FastTr_p105. |
| 19 | AEG Document: Sherk_26B (Syll_656), a decree in honour of envoys sent from Teos to Rome to oppose the claims of Cotys on the territory of Abdera. |
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