106 B.C. Olympiad 168.3Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ETR {3 January -R} The birth of M.Tullius Cicero.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Leg_2'3,L :Brut_161,L 239-240,L #:Att_13.42'3;* [Liv]:Per_120'b; Seneca:Suas_6'22-23, 7'9; #Plut:Cic_2'1, 48'4; GranLic_14<x>; #Gell_15.28'3;L Hieron:Chron_1912, 1975; {OCD_c.} |
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| 2 | ROM Caepio passes a law to share the membership of juries between senators and equites.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Clu_140,* :DeOr_1'225,L 2'199,L ~:Brut_161,L 164;L +Obseq_41;L {CAH_9'93; OCD_c.} |
| 3 | EGY {21 Pharmuthi -E = May} Document: PSI_1022, recording the sale of priestly rights belonging to Picus.
@ Bagnall_140. |
| 4 | EGY << Metellus is accused of extortion, but is acquitted.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Att_1.16'4,* :Balb_11; ValMax_2.10'1.L |
| 5 | NUM << Marius captures a fort near the river Muluccha.
* Read Sallust's account @ ~Sall:Jug_92'1-94'7;* Mela_1'29; Frontin:Str_3.9'3; Flor_1.36'14.L |
| 6 | AEG << The colossus at Rhodes is toppled by an earthquake.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1910. |
| 7 | SYR << A plot against Ptolemaeus Lathyrus is uncovered at Seleuceia.
@ ~Diod_34.39a'1; {~Holbl_p208.} |
| 8 | ROM The triumph of Metellus Numidicus.
* Read Fasti's account @ +FastTr_p107;* Vell_2.11'2; [Vict]:VirIll_62'1;L {CAH_9'785; OCD_m.} |
| 9 | {1 August -R} The triumph of Minucius, over the Scordisci and Thracians.
@ #FastTr_p107; {CAH_9'785; OCD_m.} |
| 10 | NUM << The quaestor L.Sulla arrives at Marius' camp with reinforcements from Italy.
* Read Sallust's account @ ~Sall:Jug_95'1-96'4;* ValMax_6.9'6,L 9.2'1;L {OCD_s; MRR_1'551.} |
| 11 | NAR Caepio recaptures Tolosa and removes its sacred treasures.
* Read Strabo's account @ Strab_4.188'a-b;* (1.13) +Gell_3.9'7; DioCass_fr.90'1; Just_32.3'10-11; ~Oros_5.15'25;L {CAH_9'785.} |
| 12 | NUM Marius defeats the joint forces of Jugurtha and Bocchus.
* Read Sallust's account @ ~Sall:Jug_97'1-99'3;* Diod_36.1'1; ~[Liv]:Per_66'a; Frontin:Str_2.1'3; Flor_1.36'15;L Eutrop_4.27'2; Oros_5.15'9-17.L |
| 13 | ROM {29 September -R} The birth of Cn.Pompeius Magnus.
* Read Velleius' account @ Cic:Brut_239;L Vell_2.53'3-4;* ValMax_5.2'9;L #Plin:HN_37'13;L Plut:Pomp_79'5, :Mor_717'C;(Q8.1) Appian:BCiv_1.121'a; GranLic_13<x>; Hieron:Chron_1912; {OCD_p.} |
| 14 | NUM Marius defeats Jugurtha and Bocchus in a second battle near Cirta, while on his way to winter quarters.
* Read Sallust's account @ +Sall:Jug_100'1-102'1;* Frontin:Str_2.4'10; Oros_5.15'18.L |
| 15 | Marius sends Sulla and A.Manlius on a mission to Bocchus.
* Read Sallust's account @ ~Sall:Jug_102'1-15;* Appian:Num_4. |
| 16 | ROM Cn.Mallius is elected consul, in preference to Q.Catulus.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Mur_36,* :Planc_12. |
| 17 | ITA Document: CIL_677L and 678, recording the dedication of walls at Capua, to Ceres and to Castor and Pollux.
@ ROL_p104. |
| 18 | ETR ++ The youth and family background of Q.Sertorius.
@ Plut:Sert_2'1-2. |
| 19 | AS1 ?? The birth of Apollodorus of Pergamum, a rhetorician who became one of the teachers of Octavianus.
@ ~Lucian:Macr_23; {Apollodorus, who lived for 82 years, is described as old in 44 B.C.} |
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