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| 1 | AFR Regulus is tortured to death after his return to Carthage.
* Read Gellius' account @ Cic:Pis_43, :Fin_2'65; ~[Liv]:Per_18; ValMax_9.2e'1; Sen:Dial_1.3'9; Silius_6'82-86, '529-550; Appian:Sic_2'3,(2) :Pun_4; Gell_7.4'2-4;* [Vict]:VirIll_40'4; ~Eutrop_2.25'3; August:DeCiv_1'15, 5'18;(↓↓) ~Oros_4.10'1; Suda_R'126; ~Zonar_8'15.(p449) |
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| 1a | GRE {29 Elaphebolion -G = April} Document: Syll_408, an Athenian decree concerning the Soteria games. |
| 2 | SIC Claudius builds new sea-barriers at Lilybaeum, but they are destroyed by the sea.
* Read Diodorus' account @ ~Diod_24.1'5,* 3'1. |
| 3 | The Romans send out another 10,000 men to provide crews for their fleet.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_1.49'1-3;* +Zonar_8'15;(p5) { CAH_7.2'560.} |
| 4 | EGY {1 Pharmuthi -E = May} Document: BD_75, a letter from Pataecion to Zenon. |
| 4a | LYC {Dystros -M = ? May} Document: SEG_27.929, a decree of Limyra in honour of two Ptolemaic officials. { Hölbl_p23=288; in the 36th year of Ptolemy (II ?).} |
| 5 | GRE ++ Comments on the character of the best-known followers of Epicurus: Colotes, Hermarchus, Idomeneus, Leonteus, Polyaenus, and Themista.
@ DiogLaert_10'24-25. |
| 6 | PON << The Gauls ravage the territory of Mithridates of Pontus, and of his ally Heracleia.
@ ~Memn_16'1-3; { Shortly after the accession of Mithridates.} |
| 7 | PEL << Alexander the son of Craterus rebels against Antigonus.
@ ~Trog:Prol_26; { OCD_alex; Errington_p92; Green_148<253/2>.} |
| 8 | << An alliance between Alexander and the Achaean League.
@ Plut:Arat_18'2; { CAH_7.1'247; OCD_alex.} |
| 8a | GRE << Document: Syll_454, a decree of Salamis in honour of Heracleitus. { Written after the start of the war against Alexander.} |
| 8b | ?? Document: Syll_436, a decree of the Amphictyons in honour of Hereas of Lamia. |
| 8c | ?? Document: Syll_452, a decree of Delphi in honour of Nicander of Colophon, an epic poet. |
| 8d | AEG Document: THI_223.B, recording the lease of temple lands on Delos for the next ten years. |
| 8e | EGY {6 Pauni -E = July} Document: SelPap_2.347, an undertaking to pay physician-tax. |
| 9 | SIC The Romans send Junius out to Sicily with more ships and supplies.
@ +Polyb_1.52'4-8. |
| 10 | The Carthaginian admiral Adherbal defeats the Roman fleet under P.Claudius at Drepana, after Claudius had thrown the sacred chickens into the sea.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.49'3-52'2;* Cic:ND_2'7; Diod_24.1'5, '11; Liv_fr'12;L [Liv]:Per_19; ValMax_1.4'3; Frontin:Str_2.13'9; Suet:Tib_2'2-3; Flor_1.18'29; MinFel:Oct_26'2; +Eutrop_2.26'1; +Oros_4.10'3; Schol:Bob_90; +Zonar_8'15;(p5) { CAH_7.2'562; OCD_claudius.} |
| 11 | The Carthaginian admiral Carthalo attacks the Roman fleet at Lilybaeum.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.53'1-7;* ~Diod_24.1'6-7. |
| 12 | The Roman quaestors decline battle with Carthalo, and save the ships under their command.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.53'7-12;* ~Diod_24.1'7. |
| 13 | L.Junius anchors his fleet on a rocky shore to avoid meeting the Carthaginian fleet.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.54'1-3;* ~Diod_24.1'8-9, 4'1. |
| 14 | The fleet of L.Junius is destroyed in a storm.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.54'4-55'4,* 59'1; Cic:ND_2'7, :Div_1'29; Diod_24.1'9; ValMax_1.4'3; MinFel:Oct_7'4; +Eutrop_2.26'2; +Oros_4.10'3; { CAH_7.2'562; Green_697.} |
| 15 | P.Claudius nominates his messenger Glycias to be dictator.
* Read Fasti's account @ +FastCap_p56;* ~[Liv]:Per_19; Suet:Tib_2'2. |
| 16 | ROM Glycias is forced to resign as dictator.
* Read Fasti's account @ +FastCap_p56;* ~[Liv]:Per_19. |
| 17 | SIC L.Junius captures Eryx.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.55'5-10;* Diod_24.1'10; Flor_1.18'12; +Zonar_8'15;(p7) { CAH_7.2'562.} |
| 18 | Carthalo recaptures Aegithallus.
* Read Diodorus' account @ ~Diod_24.1'11;* +Zonar_8'15.(p7) |
| 19 | The Romans appoint a dictator, A.Atilius, to take charge of the war in Sicily.
* Read Zonaras' account @ +FastCap_p56; ~[Liv]:Per_19; Flor_1.18'12; DioCass_36.34'2; +Zonar_8'15;* (p7) { OCD_a.} |
| 19a | GRE ?? Document: Syll_422, a decree of the Amphictyons in honour of Mentor of Naupactus. |
| 20 | ROM The Ludi Saeculares are celebrated.
* Read St.Augustine's account @ +FastCap_p88; ~[Liv]:Per_49; Phlegon:Fr_40'4;(p37) Censor:DN_17'8, '10; August:DeCiv_3'18;* { CAH_7.2'670; OCD_s; Censorinus mentions an alternative tradition, that these games were held in 236 B.C.} |
| 21 | >> The Romans and Carthaginians exchange prisoners.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_19;* ~Zonar_8'16.(p11) |
| 22 | >> The price of olive oil at Rome is set at 10 asses for 12 pounds.
@ +Plin:HN_15'2.L |
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