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| 1 | ROM << Sulla's law about Pompeius' return is blocked by C.Herennius.
@ Gell_10.20'10<q" Sall:Hist_2'21>. |
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| 2 | {4 March -R} Document: CIL_1.893, a "tessera consularis" with the name of Bato. |
| 3 | LUS << Sertorius mourns the death of his mother.
@ Plut:Sert_22'9-12. |
| 4 | Sertorius is called back by the Lusitani to lead their resistance to the Romans: the start of the war against Sertorius.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_90, 96; ~Plut:Sert_10'1, 11'1-2,* 12'1-2; Appian:Hisp_101, :BCiv_1'108; Eutrop_6.1'1-2; Exsuper_53; Oros_5.23'2; { CAH_9'206; OCD_s.} |
| 5 | Sertorius keeps a white fawn as a pet, which he pretends has supernatural powers.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ValMax_1.2'4; Plin:HN_8'117; Frontin:Str_1.11'13; Plut:Sert_11'3-8;* Polyaen_8.22'1. |
| 6 | EGY Sulla sends Ptolemy XI Alexander to be king of Egypt.
* Read Appian's account @ Appian:BCiv_1'102;* ~[Euseb]:Chron_165;(↓) { OCD_p; Hölbl_p213.} |
| 7 | {? April} Ptolemy Alexander is killed in a riot at Alexandria after murdering Berenice, and is succeeded by Ptolemy XII Auletes.
@ SelPap_2.393'3, '10, 394'17; POxy_1628'9, '25<t= SelPap_1.40>, 1644'2, '33<t= SelPap_1.55>; Appian:BCiv_1'102;(↓) ClemAl:Strom_1'21; ~[Euseb]:Chron_165,(↓) 167, 171; ChronPasc_449'B; +Hieron:Chron_1937; Malal_197; ExcBarb_46B; Schol:Bob_93; ChronSynt_91; { OCD_p; Bennett.} |
| 8 | ROM {4 June} A dedication to Hercules in the Circus.
@ #Ovid:Fast_6'209-212. |
| 9 | ITA The Romans capture Nola, after which Mutilus is abandoned by his wife Baestia and commits suicide.
* Read Granius' account @ ~[Liv]:Per_89; GranLic_32;* { CAH_9'195.} |
| 10 | BAE Sertorius defeats Cotta in a naval battle near Mellaria.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Sall:Hist_1'93-94; ~Plut:Sert_12'3.* |
| 11 | ROM Sulla marries Valeria, daughter of Messalla.
@ ~Plut:Sull_35'5-11; { CAH_9'206.} |
| 12 | CHE << Mithridates sets up his son Machares as king of Bosporus.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:LegMan_9;* Appian:Mith_64, ~67. |
| 13 | PEL The main events at the Olympic Games are cancelled, because the athletes have been summoned to Rome by Sulla.
@ +[Euseb]:Chron_211. |
| 14 | AEG The Romans under Thermus capture and sack Mytilene; C.Caesar wins an award for bravery.
* Read Suetonius's account @ Cic:LegAgr_2'40; ~[Liv]:Per_89; Suet:Caes_2'1;* { CAH_9'163.} |
| 15 | PAL Alexander Jannaeus returns to Judaea, after capturing many cities in the surrounding countries.
* Read Josephus' account @ Joseph:BJ_1'105, ~:AJ_13'394-397,* 14'18; { This expedition lasted for about three years.} |
| 16 | ETR The Romans capture Volaterrae after a long siege, during which C.Carbo is murdered.
* Read Granius' account @ ~[Liv]:Per_89; ~Strab_5'223;(2.6) ValMax_9.7m'3; GranLic_32;* { CAH_9'195=79; OCD_v.} |
| 17 | << The Romans capture Populonium.
@ Strab_5'223;(2.6) { At about the same time as the siege of Volaterrae.} |
| 18 | BAE Sertorius defeats Fufidius by the river Baetis.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Sall:Hist_1'95; ~Plut:Sert_12'4;* { CAH_9'206.} |
| 19 | EXT Mithridates unsuccessfully attacks the Achaei, a tribe near Colchis.
* Read Memnon's account @ Memn_26'4;* ~Appian:Mith_67' |
| 20 | ROM Sulla decides not to stand for election as consul for the following year.
* Read Appian's account @ Cic:Planc_51; +Appian:BCiv_1'103.* |
| 21 | Metellus supports Q.Calidius, who had helped Metellus' father in exile, as a candidate for praetor.
* Read Cicero's account @ +Cic:Planc_69;* +ValMax_5.2'7. |
| 22 | The brothers L. and M.Lucullus are elected to be aediles together.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:Acad_2'1; Plut:Luc_1'8-9,* :Mor_484'E. |
| 23 | == The harmonious consulship of Sulla and Metellus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Sull_6'9,* :Mor_202'E; +Appian:BCiv_1'103; { OCD_s.} |
| 24 | == Cicero successfully defends Sex.Roscius on a charge of parricide.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:RoscAm_1-154,* :Off_2'51; Quint_7.2'23; Plut:Cic_3'3-4; +Gell_15.28'2-6; [Vict]:VirIll_81'2; Hieron:Chron_1938; { CAH_9'205; OCD_r.} |
| 25 | << Sulla starts the restoration of the Capitol.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plin:HN_36'45; Tac:Hist_3'72; Plut:Publ_15'1-2.* |
| 26 | == P.Junius takes over responsibility for the maintenance of the temple of Castor.
@ +Cic:Verr_2.1'130. |
| 27 | == A decree of the senate confirms grants of land made by Sulla to the sanctuary of Amphiaraus at Oropus.
@ Syll_747'22-26, '52-57. |
| 27a | << Document: OGIS_442, a decree confirming grants made by Sulla to the city of Tabae. |
| 28 | << The scholar Alexander Polyhistor is bought as a slave by Lentulus, but is afterwards given his freedom.
@ Suda_A'1129; { OCD_a.} |
| 28a | ?? Document: CIL_1.730, recording the dedication of a statue of 'the Roman people' by Mithridates Philopator. |
| 28b | ?? Document: CIL_1.808, recording a contract for repairs to the Via Caecilia. |
| 28c | ETR ?? Document: CIL_1.1523 & 1.1524, recording the construction of a fortress at Ferentinum. |
| 29 | << Sulla has a mosaic floor installed in the temple of Fortuna at Praeneste.
@ Plin:HN_36'189. |
| 30 | IT+ == Sulla releases some allied states from taxation.
@ Cic:Off_3'87. |
| 31 | << An impostor pretends to be the son of (?) Cn. Asinius Dio.
@ ValMax_9.15'5; { "Under Sulla's rule".} |
| 32 | ITA << Oppianicus murders his own sons, so that he is free to marry Sassia.
@ Cic:Clu_26-30; { Sassia's previous husband, A.Aurius, was murdered during the proscriptions.} |
| 33 | AS1 << Verres is sent as proquaestor to Dolabella in Cilicia, and loots various allied states on the way, including Aspendus, Delos, Lampsacus, Myndus, Samos, Sicyon, and Tenedos.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_1'2, '11, 2.1'41-90,* '113; Schol:Bob_345-346;L { MRR_2'57.} |
| 34 | SIC == M.Lepidus gains a bad reputation as governor of Sicily.
@ Cic:Verr_2.3'212; { CAH_9'206; MRR_2'56.} |
| 35 | CIL == The death, possibly by murder, of C.Malleolus, the quaestor of Dolabella.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.1'41, ~'90-94.* |
| 36 | AEG == Document: Sherk_64,B a letter of Cn.Dolabella to the people of Thasos. |
| 37 | == A decree of the senate confirms that the people of Chios will retain their full freedom and rights.
@ Syll_785'11-19<t=B Sherk_108>. |
| 38 | AS1 ++ General remarks on the conduct of L.Lucullus in Asia.
@ Cic:Acad_2'1; { MRR_2'57.} |
| 39 | PHO ?? The poet Antipater of Sidon dies on his birthday.
@ ValMax_1.8e'16; Plin:HN_7'172; { ~OCD_a; Antipater was a contemporary of Catulus (consul 102 B.C.), and lived to a great age.} |
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