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1 | CIS << The Cimbri develop a taste for Italian luxuries.
* Read Florus' account @ Flor_1.38'13;* ~DioCass_fr.94'2; +Oros_5.16'14. |
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2 | SIC << Athenion attacks Messana.
@ ~DioCass_fr.93'4. |
3 | ROM Omens, including the spontaneous movement of the sacred shields.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_68;* Plin:HN_2'148; +Obseq_44a. |
4 | SPA << A Roman embassy attempts to stifle rebellion in Spain.
@ Appian:Hisp_99' |
5 | CIS ?? Marius sacrifices his daughter Calpurnia to ensure victory against the Cimbri.
@ Plut:Mor_310'D; ClemAl:Protr_3'37. |
6 | Marius joins up with the army of Catulus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_68; ~Plut:Mar_24'1-25'3;* Flor_1.38'14. |
7 | {30 July -R} Marius and Catulus destroy the Cimbri at Campi Raudii, near Vercellae.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_68; Strab_4'193;(3.3) Vell_2.12'5; ValMax_6.1e'3; Plin:HN_8'143; Frontin:Str_2.2'8; #Plut:Mar_25'4-27'8;* Flor_1.38'14-18; Polyaen_8.10'3; +Obseq_44a; [Vict]:VirIll_67'2; Eutrop_5.2'1-2; +Hieron:Chron_1916; +Oros_5.16'14-21; { CAH_9'96; OCD³.} |
8 | ++ General comments on Marius' defeat of the Cimbri and Teutones.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:ProvCon_26,* 32; Plut:Caes_18'1; Appian:Ill_4;(↓) AmmMarc_31.5'12. |
9 | ROM News of the battle of Vercellae miraculously reaches Rome on the same day.
* Read Florus' account @ ValMax_8.15'7; Plin:HN_7'86; Flor_1.38'19-21.* |
10 | CIS Marius grants Roman citizenship to soldiers from Camerinum.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Balb_46-48,* 50; ValMax_5.2'8; +Plut:Mar_28'3, :Mor_202'C-D; Appian:Hisp_100. |
10a | AEG << Document: OGIS_372 & 430, statues of Dorylaus and a friend of Mithridates II at Delos . |
11 | CAP Mithridates murders Ariarathes and installs his own son as king of Cappadocia.
* Read Justin's account @ Memn_22'1; Just_38.1'6-10;* { CAH_9'141; OCD³.} |
12 | SIC Aquillius defeats and kills Athenion.
@ +Diod_36.10'1. |
13 | ROM Saturninus is prosecuted for insulting the ambassadors of Mithridates.
@ ~Diod_36.15'1-3; { CAH_9'141.} |
14 | LUS The Romans subdue the Lusitani.
@ +Obseq_44a. |
15 | SIC Aquillius defeats the remaining rebel slaves and ends their revolt.
* Read Livy's account @ ~Diod_36.10'1-3; ~[Liv]:Per_69;* Obseq_45; !Hieron:Chron_1921; Schol:Bob_108;L { CAH_9'96; Green_557.} |
16 | The Romans capture and destroy the slaves' fortress at Triocala.
@ Cic:Verr_2.5'10; Silius_14'270. |
17 | ++ General comments on the slave wars in Sicily, which caused enormous loss of life.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.3'125, 5'5-7,* :LegAgr_2'83; Plut:Mor_637'B;(Q2.3) Athen_6.272'f-273'a. |
18 | ROM The triumph of Marius and Catulus.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:Tusc_5'56; Diod_38.4'2; ~[Liv]:Per_68; ValMax_3.6'6, 9.12'4; Juvenal_8'249-253, 10'278-282; +Plut:Mar_27'9-10;* Flor_1.38'10; [Vict]:VirIll_67'2; Eutrop_5.2'2; +Hieron:Chron_1916; +Oros_5.16'22-24; { CAH_9'785; DPRR.} |
19 | NOR The Tigurini retreat after the defeat of the Cimbri.
@ Flor_1.38'18. |
19a | EGY ?? Document: THI_191.A & AET_4.16, the epitaphs of a man from Edfu, who died while fighting in Syria. |
20 | {Sept./Oct.} The death of Queen Cleopatra, allegedly murdered by her son, Ptolemy Alexander.
* Read Pausanias' account @ Paus_1.9'3;* Athen_12.550'a; ~[Euseb]:Chron_163;(↓) { CAH_9'295; Bennett.} |
21 | ROM Elections for new consuls; Marius is re-elected after working hard to gain popular support.
* Read Plutarch's account @ +Vell_2.12'6; +Plut:Mar_28'1-9;* { CAH_9'97.} |
22 | Elections for new tribunes: A.Nunnius, one of the candidates, is murdered by supporters of Saturninus.
* Read Appian's account @ Diod_36.15'3; ~[Liv]:Per_69; ValMax_9.7'3; +Plut:Mar_20'1; Appian:BCiv_1'28;* [Vict]:VirIll_73'5; { CAH_9'97.} |
23 | EGY {2 Choiach -E = December} Document: SelPap_1.29, recording the sale of a house at Pathyris. |
23a | ?? Document: AET_4.18, the statue of a dioiketes with dual Egyptian-Greek identity. |
24 | ROM ?? The aediles L.Crassus and Q.Scaevola hold magnificent games.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.4'133,* :DeOr_3'92, :Off_2'57; Plin:HN_8'53; { DPRR<105-100>.} |
25 | == Publicius Malleolus is convicted of matricide.
* Read Anon's account @ [Cic]:RhetHer_1'23;* ~[Liv]:Per_68; +Oros_5.16'23-24. |
26 | == Glaucia passes a law on extortion.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.1'26,* :Balb_54, :RabPost_9, :Brut_224; Ascon_21;L { CAH_9'94=or:104; OCD³=or:100.} |
27 | ?? Sayings of Lucilius about his poetry.
@ Cic:DeOr_1'72, 2'25. |
28 | << The death of the poet Lucilius.
@ !Hieron:Chron_1814; { OCD³.} |
29 | Catulus dedicates a temple to Fortuna Huiusce Diei, and uses the booty from the war against the Cimbri to build a portico.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Dom_102,* 114; Plin:HN_34'54; { OCD³.} |
30 | ROM Document: CIL_1.701, an inscription on a wine jar. |
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