124 B.C. Olympiad 164.1Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ROM C.Gracchus returns to Rome from Sardinia, and defends his conduct before the censors.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Diod_34.24'1; Plut:CGrac_2'7-10,* :Mor_798'F; Gell_15.12'1;L {CAH_9'77; OCD_g.} |
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| 2 | << M'.Aquillius is tried for extortion, but is defended by M.Antonius and acquitted.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:DivCaec_69,* :DeOr_2'188,L '194-196;L Appian:BCiv_1.22'a; {~OCD_a.} |
| 3 | SYR ?? Alexander Zabinas captures Laodiceia.
@ ~Diod_34.22'1. |
| 4 | ROM Gracchus is elected tribune for the following year.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Diod_34.24'1; Plut:CGrac_3'1-3;* ~Appian:BCiv_1.21'b; {CAH_9'77.} |
| 5 | ETR The foundation of the Roman colony of Fabrateria.
@ +Vell_1.15'4. |
| 6 | PAL >> Date of a letter to the Jews in Egypt, preserved at the start of the second book of Maccabees.
@ +2Macc_1'1-10. |
| 7 | ROM ?? General comments on the life of Q.Pompeius, who achieved political success despite his humble background.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.5'181,* :Mur_16. |
| 8 | << The birth of the orators Cotta and Sulpicius.
@ ~Cic:Brut_301;L {About ten years before the birth of Hortensius.} |
| 9 | ETR ?? A snake is found in the cradle of Roscius, the future actor, while he is sleeping at Lanuvium.
@ Cic:Div_1'79,L 2'66;L {Roscius was already a prominent actor by the time of the dictator Sulla.} |
| 10 | AEG << Document: Sherk1_47b, the inscription from a statue of Theophrastus, put up in honour of his achievements as governor of Delos. |
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