| 1
| ROM {15 March -R = ?January} The new consuls enter office; the senate sends out ten envoys to oversee the settlement of Macedonia.
* Read Livy's account
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+Liv_45.16'1-18'8;*
SHA:Hadr_5'3;
+Obseq_11.
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| 2
| Attalus the brother of Eumenes appears before the senate.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_30.1'1-3'8;*
+Liv_45.19'1-20'3;
Eutrop_4.8'2;
Zonar_9'24.(p359)
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| 3
| The praetor Juventius urges the Roman people to declare war against the Rhodians.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_30.4'1-6;*
Diod_31.5'3;
+Liv_45.20'4-21'8.
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| 4
| The Rhodian envoys address the senate; they are supported by M.Cato.
* Read Gellius' account
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~Polyb_30.4'7-5'1;
Gell_6.3'5-55<q"*
Cato:Orig_5'3>;
Sall:Cat_51'5;
Diod_31.3'1-5'2a;
+Liv_45.22'1-25'6;
Plin:HN_7'182;
DioCass_fr.68'2;
Zonar_9'24;(p355)
{ CAH_8'457.}
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| 5
| AEG The Rhodians are relieved to learn that Rome has not declared war on them; but they are forced to evacuate Caria and Lycia.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_30.5'2-16,*
31'4-5;
Diod_31.5'2b;
+Liv_45.25'6-13;
DioCass_fr.68'3;
Zonar_9'24;(p357)
{ CAH_8'337.}
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| 6
| AEG {Bysius -G = February/March} Document: Austin_147b,B the manumission record of Maiphatas and Ammia.
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| 6a
| EGY {Phamenoth -E = April} Document: AET_6.7, a letter from a soldier to the residents of Djeme.
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| 7
| MAC Paullus and the ten envoys announce the division of Macedonia into four independent states.
* Read Livy's account
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~Polyb_30.11'1-13'11;
Diod_31.8'1-9;
+Liv_45.28'7-32'7;*
Strab_7.fr'7;(7.12)
~Plut:Aem_28'5-6;
Just_33.2'7;
[Euseb]:Chron_239;(↓)
Eutrop_4.7'3;
Suda_Ai'200;
{ CAH_8'317-318; Green_710.}
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| 8
| Paullus holds his victory games at Amphipolis.
* Read Livy's account
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~Polyb_30.14'1,
25'1;
Diod_31.8'9,
'13;
+Liv_45.32'8-33'7;*
[Liv]:Per_51;
~Plut:Aem_28'7-9,
:Mor_198'B,
615'E-F;(Q1.2)
Eutrop_4.7'3;
{ CAH_8'345.}
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| 8a
| Document: SEG_64.492, two letters from Paullus, reprimanding the city of Gonni.
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| 9
| << Scipio Aemilianus proves his courage while hunting in the royal parks of Macedonia.
* Read Polybius' account
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Polyb_31.29'1-7;*
Diod_31.27'8.
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| 10
| PAL << Apollonius, the general of Antiochus, suppresses his opponents in Jerusalem, and establishes a garrison there.
* Read 1Maccabees' account
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1Macc_1'29-40;*
~2Macc_5'22-26;
Joseph:BJ_1'35,
:AJ_12'251-252,
13'292;
Suda_A'2693;
{ Green_514.}
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| 11
| ILL Paullus pillages Epirus, sacks seventy cities and carries off 150,000 slaves to Rome.
* Read Livy's account
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~Polyb_30.15'1,
32.5'5-6;
+Liv_45.33'8-34'9;*
Strab_7'322;(7.3)
Plin:HN_4'39;
~Plut:Aem_29'1-30'1;
Appian:Ill_9-10;(↓)
DioCass_fr.67'2;
Eutrop_4.8'1;
{ CAH_8'317; OCD³.}
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| 12
| ASI A Roman embassy attempts to arrange an end to the fighting between Eumenes and the Galatians.
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+Liv_45.34'10-14.
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| 12a
| MAC ?? Document: SEG_56.636, a decree of Larissa in honour of Novius Latinus.
{ Dated to a year between 170 and 167.}
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| 12b
| EGY {3 Payni -E = July} Document: SelPap_271A, a petition about prisoners of war.
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| 12c
| GRE {31 Scirophorion -G = July} Document: Syll_651, an Athenian decree in honour of Diodorus, a friend of Eumenes.
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| 13
| << The Athenians send Metrodorus to serve Paullus as a painter and a philosopher.
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Plin:HN_35'135.
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| 14
| << The death of Agamestor, an Academic philosopher.
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+Apollod:Fr_47;
{ When Xenocles was Athenian archon.}
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| 14a
| << Document: OGIS_241, a decree of Delphi in honour of Dicaearchus of Laodiceia, a courtier of Antiochus.
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| 15
| << Document: Sherk_24B (Syll_652a), the inscription from a statue of Paullus at Delphi.
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| 15a
| PEL << Document: Syll_650, the inscription from a statue of Cn.Octavius at Olympia.
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| 15b
| AEG << Document: THI_99.P, a decree of Cos in honour of the doctor of Cn.Octavius.
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| 16
| PEL Over a thousand of the leading Achaeans are deported to Rome.
* Read Pausanias' account
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+Liv_45.35'1-2;
Paus_7.10'5-12;*
Just_33.2'8;
Zonar_9'31;(p399)
{ CAH_8'317; Green_425.}
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| 17
| ROM Paullus arrives at Rome.
* Read Livy's account
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Diod_31.8'9,
11'2;
+Liv_45.35'1-3,*
41'7-8;
Plut:Aem_30'2-3,
36'5;
Appian:Mac_19'2;(35)
Eutrop_4.8'1.
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| 18
| A motion to grant a triumph to Paullus is passed, despite the strong opposition of Ser.Galba.
* Read Livy's account
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+Liv_45.35'4-39'20;*
[Liv]:Per_45;
Vell_1.9'6;
Plut:Aem_30'4-32'1;
{ CAH_8'177; OCD³.}
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| 19
| PAL Antiochus issues a decree forcing the Jews to adopt Hellenic customs and make pagan sacrifices.
* Read 1Maccabees' account
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~1Macc_1'41-53;*
~2Macc_5'27-6'1,
'6;
Joseph:BJ_1'34,
:AJ_10'275-276,
12'253-254;
[Euseb]:Chron_123,(↓)
127;(↓)
ChronPasc_464'B,
509'B;
!Hieron:Chron_1848;
August:DeCiv_18'45;(↓)
ExcBarb_47A;
ChronSynt_67;(↓)
Suda_A'2693;
{ CAH_8'349=168.}
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| 20
| ROM {25 November -R = September} The death of Paullus' younger son.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Diod_31.11'1;
+Liv_45.40'7,
41'9,
'11;
Vell_1.10'5;
ValMax_5.10'2;
~Plut:Aem_35'1-2,*
36'7,
:Mor_198'C;
Appian:Mac_19'1,
'3;(35)
[Vict]:VirIll_56'4;
Zonar_9'24.(p351)
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| 21
| {27 November -R = September} The first day of Paullus' triumph: a display of statues and pictures.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Diod_31.8'10;
Plin:HN_34'54;
~Plut:Aem_32'2-4;*
Flor_1.28'13;
{ Green_710.}
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| 22
| {28 November -R = September} The second day of Paullus' triumph: Perseus' treasury, consisting of more than 6,000 talents of gold and silver, is brought to Rome.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Polyb_18.35'4-5;
Cic:Off_2'76;
Diod_31.8'11,
26'1;
Vell_1.9'6,
2.40'3;
ValMax_4.3'8;
Plin:HN_33'56;
~Plut:Aem_32'5-9;*
Flor_1.28'13;
Suda_L'330.
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| 23
| {29 November -R = September} The last day of Paullus' triumph: Perseus and his children are led before the chariot of Paullus.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Cic:Cat_4'21;
Diod_31.8'12,
9'1;
+Liv_45.40'1-8;
#FastTr_p104;
Vell_1.9'5-6;
ValMax_5.10'2;
Tac:Ann_12'38;
~Plut:Aem_33'1-34'8,*
:Mor_198'B;
Flor_1.28'12-13;
Eutrop_4.8'1;
Oros_4.20'39;
Zonar_9'24.(p351)
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| 24
| {1 December -R = September} The "naval" triumph of Octavius.
* Read Livy's account
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Diod_31.8'10;
+Liv_45.42'2-3;*
#FastTr_p104;
Vell_1.9'5;
Plin:HN_34'13.
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| 25
| {2 December -R = September} The death of Paullus' elder son.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Cic:Tusc_3'70,
:Sen_68,
:Amic_9,
:Fam_4.6'1;
Diod_31.11'1;
+Liv_45.40'7,
41'9,
'11;
Vell_1.10'5;
ValMax_5.10'2;
~Plut:Aem_35'1-2,*
:Mor_198'C;
Appian:Mac_19'1;(35)
[Vict]:VirIll_56'4;
Zonar_9'24.(p351)
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| 26
| Paullus' speech to the people on the death of his sons.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Diod_31.11'1-3;
+Liv_45.40'9-42'1;
Vell_1.10'4;
ValMax_5.10'2;
Sen:Dial_6.13'3-4,
11.14'5;
~Plut:Aem_35'3-37'1,*
:Tim_41'10,(2)
:Mor_198'C;
Appian:Mac_19'2-3;(35)
Ampel_18'13;
[Vict]:VirIll_56'4-5;
Zonar_9'24.(p351)
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| 27
| ETR Perseus is emprisoned at Alba Fucens.
* Read Diodorus' account
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Diod_31.9'1-7;*
+Liv_45.42'4-5;
~Plut:Aem_37'2,
'4;
Ampel_16'4;
[Euseb]:Chron_239;
AmmMarc_14.11'31;
Oros_4.20'40;
Zonar_9'24.(p353)
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| 28
| The Achaean detainees are distributed amongst the Etruscan cities; but the historian Polybius is allowed to stay at Rome, where he becomes the mentor of Scipio Aemilianus.
* Read Polybius' account
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Polyb_31.23'1-25'10,*
29'8-12;
Diod_31.26'4-27'2;
Paus_7.10'11;
Suda_P'184,
P'1941;
{ Walbank_p497.}
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| 29
| ROM An embassy from Cotys the king of the Thracians persuades the senate to release his son Bithys and other Thracian hostages.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_30.17'1-4;*
+Liv_45.42'6-12;
{ CAH_8'319=166; Walbank_p440.}
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| 30
| The senate agrees to Athenian control of Lemnos, Haliartus, and Delos, which becomes a free port.
* Read Polybius' account
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Syll_657;
~Polyb_30.19'17-20'9,*
31.10'12,
32.7'2;
Strab_10'486;(5.4)
{ CAH_8'318; OCD³.}
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| 31
| The Rhodian envoy Theaedetus dies at Rome, while waiting for the senate to make a decision about the alliance with Rhodes.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_30.21'1-5,*
31'8;
{ Theaedetus was sent off to Rome in May/June of this year (Walbank_p422).}
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| 32
| {17 February -R = ?December} The triumph of Anicius, over Genthius and the Illyrians.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_30.22'1-12;*
Diod_31.8'10;
+Liv_45.43'1-10;
#FastTr_p104;
Vell_1.9'5;
Eutrop_4.8'2.
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| 33
| {24 February -R = ?December} The beginning of an intercalary month at Rome.
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#Liv_45.44'3.
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| 34
| Prusias visits Rome, and congratulates the senate on the victory in Macedonia.
* Read Livy's account
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~Polyb_30.18'1-7;
Diod_31.15'1-3;
+Liv_45.44'4-21;*
[Liv]:Per_45;
ValMax_5.1'1;
Appian:Mith_2;
DioCass_fr.69'1;
Eutrop_4.8'2;
Zonar_9'24;(p357)
{ CAH_8'534.}
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| 35
| ITA >> Eumenes arrives at Brundisium, but he returns home after the Roman senate issues a decree discouraging visits by kings.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_30.19'1-17;*
Diod_31.7'1;
~[Liv]:Per_46;
Just_38.6'4;
{ CAH_8'534; Green_447.}
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| 36
| PAL {15 Kislev -J = December} The Syrians set up the "abomination of the desolation" in the temple at Jerusalem.
* Read 1Maccabees' account
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Daniel_7'25,
8'9-14,
9'27,
11'31-39;
#1Macc_1'54-58;*
2Macc_6'2-5;
Joseph:BJ_1'32,
5'394,
:AJ_12'253;
Porph:Fr_51,
53,
58;
[Euseb]:Chron_127;(↓)
!Hieron:Chron_1848;
August:DeCiv_18'45;(↓)
Malal_206-207;
ExcBarb_46A;
Suda_B'202;
{ Green_516.}
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| 37
| {25 Kislev -J = December} Pagan sacrifices are performed at Jerusalem and throughout Judaea, with brutal punishment for any resistance.
* Read 1Maccabees' account
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#1Macc_1'59-64;*
2Macc_6'7-10;
Diod_34.1'4;
4Macc_4'23-26;
Joseph:AJ_12'255-256;
Sulpit_2'19;(↓)
August:DeCiv_18'45;(↓)
{ Green_515.}
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