107 B.C. Olympiad 168.2Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ROM The people assign the command in Numidia to Marius, who begins his preparations.
* Read Sallust's account @ +Sall:Jug_84'1-86'3;* Vell_2.11'2; ValMax_2.3'1;L +Plut:Mar_9'1-4; Flor_1.36'13;L Gell_16.10'14,L '16;L Exsuper_7-13; {CAH_9'30; OCD_m.} |
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| 2 | GAL The Tigurini defeat and kill L.Cassius; the remnants of the Roman army are allowed to escape after surrendering their possessions.
* Read Caesar's account @ [Cic]:RhetHer_1'25;L +Caes:BGall_1.7'4, 12'5-7,* 14'1-2; +[Liv]:Per_65'a; Appian:Gall_1'8;(Epit.3) +Oros_5.15'23-24;L {CAH_9'24, '93.} |
| 3 | NUM ++ General remarks on Metellus' successes in the war against Jugurtha.
@ ValMax_2.7'2.L |
| 4 | Marius arrives in Numidia, and captures Capsa.
* Read Sallust's account @ +Sall:Jug_86'4-91'7;* Strab_17.831'e;(3.12) +Plut:Mar_10'1; Flor_1.36'13-14;L +Oros_5.15'8;L {CAH_9'784.} |
| 5 | EGY Cleopatra forces Ptolemaeus Lathyrus to escape to Cyprus, and Ptolemaeus Alexander takes over as king.
* Read Pausanias' account @ Joseph:AJ_13'328; Paus_1.9'1-2;* ~[Euseb]:Chron_163'c-d, 165'b, 171'a; !Hieron:Chron_1919; ChronSynt_91'b; {CAH_9'315; OCD_p.} |
| 6 | ROM {28 October -R} The triumph of Q.Caepio, from further Spain.
@ #FastTr_p107; {CAH_9'784; OCD_c.} |
| 7 | PAL << {25 Heshvan -J = November} Hyrcanus destroys Samaria.
* Read Josephus' account @ MegTaan_3'2, #8'2; Joseph:BJ_1'65-66,* ~:AJ_13'280-283; !Hieron:Chron_1898. |
| 8 | EGY {28 Phaophi -E = November} Document: PGrenf_2.23a, a contract for the sale, by Taous and others, of land at Crocodilopolis.
@ PLoeb_1.27. |
| 9 | CHE ?? Document: SIG_709, a decree of Chersonesus in honour of Diophantus, the general of Mithridates.
@ Bagnall_48. |
| 10 | PON << The occupation of Paphlagonia by Mithridates and Nicomedes - regarded by some as the start of the Mithridatic Wars.
* Read Justin's account @ Flor_1.40'2;L ~Appian:Mith_62'b, 112'a, 118'a, 'b; ~Just_37.1'7, 4'3;* Festus:Brev_11'3; Eutrop_6.12'3; August:DeCiv_5.22'c; ~Oros_6.1'30;L {CAH_9'141; Green_719<103>.} |
| 11 | ROM The tribune C.Coelius charges C.Popillius with treason for his part in Cassius' defeat, and passes a law to extend the secret ballot to such cases.
@ [Cic]:RhetHer_1'25,L 4'34;L Cic:Leg_3'36;L ~Oros_5.15'24;L {CAH_9'45; OCD_c.} |
| 12 | == Granius invites the tribune L.Crassus to a banquet.
@ Lucil_595-614; ~Cic:Brut_160-161;L {In the year before Caepio's law about juries.} |
| 13 | == Omens, including the appearance of a "fire-bird" and an eagle-owl.
@ +Plin:HN_10'36;L !Obseq_40.L |
| 14 | ++ The dissolute lifestyle of L.Sulla, as a young man.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ValMax_6.9'6;L Plut:Sull_1'2-7,* 2'3, '6-8, :Mor_318'C. |
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