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| 1 | SPA << Pompeius captures the rebel cities of Uxama and Calagurris.
* Read Florus' account @ Sall:Hist_3'82-83;L ValMax_7.6e'3; Juvenal_15'93-113; Flor_2.10'9;* Exsuper_56; Oros_5.23'14. |
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| 2 | CRE << The Cretans defeat Antonius and force him to retreat.
* Read Livy's account @ Sall:Hist_3'74-75;L Diod_40.1'1; ~[Liv]:Per_97;* Flor_1.42'3; Appian:Sic_6'2,(8) :BCiv_1'111; { CAH_9'249; McGushin_2'125.} |
| 3 | PON << Lucullus besieges Amisus and Themiscyra.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Sall:Hist_3'40;L ~Plut:Luc_14'2-8,* 33'3; +Phlegon:Fr_12'3;(97) ~Appian:Mith_78; { CAH_9'237.} |
| 4 | << Mithridates gathers together a new army at Cabeira.
* Read Memnon's account @ Memn_29'8;* ~Plut:Luc_15'1; ~Appian:Mith_78;(↓) { CAH_9'237.} |
| 5 | ROM << C.Caesar is elected military tribune, ahead of C.Popillius.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Caes_5'1;* ~Suet:Caes_5'1; { DPRR.} |
| 6 | ITA Spartacus breaks out at night though Crassus' siegeworks.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Sall:Hist_4'29-31;L Frontin:Str_1.5'20; ~Plut:Crass_10'6;* ~Appian:BCiv_1'119; { CAH_9'223.} |
| 7 | SPA Pompeius leaves Spain, and sets up a trophy on the Pyrenees.
* Read Strabo's account @ Sall:Hist_3'84-85;L Strab_3'160;* (4.9) Plin:HN_3'18, 7'96; ~Plut:Pomp_21'1; Exsuper_56; { OCD_p.} |
| 8 | ITA Crassus catches and defeats a detachment of German slaves separated from Spartacus' main army, near a Lucanian lake.
* Read Frontinus' account @ Sall:Hist_4'32-33;L Frontin:Str_2.4'7;* +Plut:Crass_11'1; ~Appian:BCiv_1'119; ~Oros_5.24'6. |
| 9 | ITA Spartacus withdraws towards Brundisium.
* Read Plutarch's account @ +Plut:Crass_11'4;* ~Appian:BCiv_1'120. |
| 10 | Crassus annihilates the army of German slaves led by Castus and Cannicus, killing over 30,000 of the slaves.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Sall:Hist_4'34;L ~[Liv]:Per_97; Frontin:Str_2.5'34; +Plut:Crass_11'2-3;* ~Oros_5.24'6; { CAH_9'223.} |
| 11 | PON << Lucullus advances against Mithridates, but is defeated in a cavalry skirmish near Cabeira.
* Read Appian's account @ Memn_29'8; ~Plut:Luc_15'2; +Phlegon:Fr_12'3;(97) ~Appian:Mith_79'* |
| 12 | << Holcabas deserts to the Romans, and then allegedly attempts to kill Lucullus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Frontin:Str_2.5'30; ~Plut:Luc_16'1-7;* ~Appian:Mith_79' |
| 13 | << Lucullus is shown a safe route to advance against Cabeira, but is then defeated in another skirmish.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Sall:Hist_4'3-5;L Memn_29'8; ~Plut:Luc_15'3-7;* ~Appian:Mith_80' |
| 14 | The grandfather of the geographer Strabo, (?) Aeniates, rebels from Mithridates and persuades some garrisons to surrender to the Romans.
@ Strab_12'557-558;(3.33) { When Lucullus was already winning the war against Mithridates.} |
| 15 | ITA Crassus defeats and kills Spartacus by the river Silarus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Sall:Hist_4'36;L ~[Liv]:Per_97; Vell_2.30'6; Lucan_2'554; Plut:Pomp_21'2, :Crass_11'5-7,* 36'2; ~Appian:BCiv_1'120; Ampel_45'3; Athen_6.273'a; Eutrop_6.7'2; ~Oros_5.24'7; { CAH_9'223; OCD_s.} |
| 16 | ++ General comments on the virtuous character of Spartacus.
@ Diod_38.21'1; Plin:HN_33'49. |
| 17 | ++ General comments on the ignominious war against Spartacus' slave army.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.5'5-7,* :LegMan_30; Caes:BGall_1.40'5; Hor:Od_3.14'19-20; Seneca:Contr_2.1'7;L Tac:Ann_3'73; Flor_1.47'10, 2.8'1-2; Appian:Mith_109; Ampel_41'4; Julian:Caes_322'D; August:DeCiv_3'26, 4'5,(↓) 5'22; Oros_5.24'18-20. |
| 18 | ETR Pompeius arrives back in Italy, and defeats a force of slaves attempting to escape to the north.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Pomp_21'3,* 31'12-13, +:Crass_11'2, '5, '7; ~Appian:BCiv_1'119; Ampel_45'3; { CAH_9'223; OCD_spartacus.} |
| 19 | PON << A force sent by Mithridates to attack Lucullus' supply convoy is defeated by Hadrianus and suffers heavy losses.
* Read Memnon's account @ Sall:Hist_4'6;L ~[Liv]:Per_97; Memn_29'9;* ~Plut:Luc_17'1-2; +Phlegon:Fr_12'3;(97) ~Appian:Mith_80-81; Eutrop_6.8'3; { CAH_9'237.} |
| 20 | << Panic in Mithridates' camp as his army attempts to escape before the arrival of Lucullus.
* Read Appian's account @ Sall:Hist_4'7-8;L Memn_30'1; ~Plut:Luc_17'3-8; ~Appian:Mith_81-82;* Eutrop_6.8'3; { CAH_9'237.} |
| 21 | NAR The German king Ariovistus enters Gaul at the invitation of the Sequani, and defeats the Aedui.
* Read Caesar's account @ Caes:BGall_1.31'4-10,* 6.12'2-4, 7.67'7; { OCD_a.} |
| 22 | ITA The survivors of Spartacus' army are rounded up and crucified.
* Read Appian's account @ ~Appian:BCiv_1'120;* (↓) ~Oros_5.24'8; { OCD_s.} |
| 23 | Crassus rewards a man from Avenio with Roman citizenship.
@ Cic:Balb_50. |
| 24 | ROM Pompeius and Crassus are elected consuls for the following year.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:Verr_1'45, :LegMan_62; Sall:Hist_4'37,L '42,L '44-45;L ~[Liv]:Per_97; ValMax_8.15'8; ~Plut:Pomp_21'4-22'2,* 44'5, +:Crass_12'1; ~Appian:BCiv_1'121, 3'88; DioCass_77.5'5; { CAH_9'223; OCD_p.} |
| 25 | PON << Lucullus captures and loots Cabeira.
* Read Memnon's account @ Sall:Hist_4'9-10;L Memn_30'2;* ~Plut:Luc_18'1, 46'1; { McGushin_2'144.} |
| 26 | << Mithridates escapes to his father-in-law Tigranes, in Armenia.
* Read Appian's account @ Cic:LegMan_22-23; ~[Liv]:Per_97; Joseph:AJ_13'241; Memn_30'1; ~Plut:Luc_19'1; Flor_1.40'18; ~Appian:Mith_82;* Eutrop_6.8'4; { CAH_9'238.} |
| 27 | CIL The death of M.Antonius, who is given the ironic title of Creticus.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_97;* Plut:Ant_1'1; Appian:Sic_6'2;(8) Schol:Bob_96; { Green_655.} |
| 28 | ++ General comments on the character of Antonius, and his unsuccessful campaign against the pirates.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:Phil_3'17; Sall:Hist_3'76;L Tac:Ann_12'62; Plut:Ant_1'1-3,* 88'2; Trog:Prol_39. |
| 29 | ROM Antonius' debts force his son to renounce his inheritance.
@ Cic:Phil_2'42, '44. |
| 30 | ROM Metellus celebrates a triumph and discharges his soldiers, even though Pompeius and Crassus refuse to disband their armies.
* Read Velleius' account @ Sall:Hist_4'43;L Vell_2.30'1;* DioCass_38.5'1, 56.39'2; Eutrop_6.5'2; { CAH_9'791; OCD_m.} |
| 31 | Crassus celebrates an ovation, for his victory over Spartacus.
* Read Gellius' account @ Cic:Pis_58; Plin:HN_15'125;L +Plut:Crass_11'8; Gell_5.6'23;* Hieron:Chron_1947; { CAH_9'223.} |
| 32 | M.Lollius Palicanus campaigns for the full restoration of the tribunes' powers.
@ Sall:Hist_4'38-41;L { CAH_9'215; OCD_l.} |
| 33 | == The triumph of M.Lucullus, over the Thracians.
@ Cic:Pis_44; { CAH_9'791; OCD_l.} |
| 34 | PON L.Lucullus captures the fortress of Eupatoria.
@ Memn_30'3. |
| 35 | ARM Tigranes allows Mithridates to stay in Armenia, but refuses to meet him.
* Read Memnon's account @ Memn_31'1;* Plut:Luc_22'1; ~Appian:Mith_82; { CAH_9'791.} |
| 36 | ITA << The death of the elder Oppianicus; Sassia alleges that her son Cluentius poisoned him.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Clu_169-178,* 188-191; { Dated approximately by Cic:Clu_178-179.} |
| 37 | AS1 == Document: ARS_79 (CIL_1.589), a Roman decree confirming privileges granted to Termessus. |
| 37a | ROM == Document: CIL_1.744, an inscription recording some roadworks in Rome; { probably in the same year as the decree about Termessus.} |
| 38 | PEL ?? Document: Sherk_47e,B an inscription in honour of P.Rutilius Nudus, from Aegium in Achaea. |
| 39 | == Document: Sherk_74B (Syll_748), an inscription in honour of Numerius and M.Cloatius, from Gytheium in Laconia. |
| 40 | SIC == Verres subverts the activities of the local censors in Sicily.
@ ~Cic:Verr_2.2'131-141. |
| 41 | == Apronius despoils the territory of Aetna, Leontini, and other cities.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.3'76, ~'104-118,* '120. |
| 42 | ?? Verres alters the terms of the Lex Hieronica, the traditional law governing the taxation of produce in Sicily.
@ Cic:Verr_2.3'10-66. |
| 43 | ?? Verres increases the corn tax impositions on Agyrium, Herbita, Acesta, Lipara, and other towns.
@ Cic:Verr_2.3'67-103. |
| 44 | ?? Systematic extortion by Verres diminishes corn production in Sicily.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.3'119-146,* '163-205. |
| 45 | ?? Verres seizes the possessions of many innocent Sicilians, including Epicrates, Heius, Heraclius, Philocrates, Sopater and Sosippus.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.2'25-27,* '35-50, '53-62, '66-75, '80-81, 4'4-20, '27-28, '139, '151. |
| 46 | ?? Crimes of Verres relating to statues and other works of art.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.2'50-52, '118-130, '141-168, 4'1-3, '29-60, '72-135,* '185-187; Quint_5.11'7; AmmMarc_15.3'3. |
| 47 | ?? Other activities and misdeeds of Verres, as governor of Sicily.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_1'12-15,* '56, _2.1'14, 2'169-171, 5'9-31, '40-41. |
| 48 | {? December -R} Verres returns to Rome with a huge amount of booty, after the Sicilians ask for him to be replaced immediately by L.Metellus.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.1'113, 2'9-10,* '13-15, ~3'45, 5'44. |
| 49 | ROM Varro writes a "Commentarius", which provides guidance to Pompeius on the duties of a consul.
@ ~Gell_14.7'1-3; { CAH_9'224.} |
| 50 | {29 December -R} The triumph of Pompeius, for his victories in Spain.
* Read Velleius' account @ Cic:LegMan_62; #Vell_2.30'1-2,* 40'4; Lucan_7'13-19, 8'809-810; Plin:HN_7'96; ~Plut:Pomp_22'1, 45'7, :Crass_11'8; SHA:Prob_2'3; Eutrop_6.5'2; Schol:Bob_138;L { CAH_9'224; OCD_p.} |
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