124 B.C. - events and references

124 B.C. Olympiad 164.1

Consuls: C. Cassius Longinus, C. Sextius C.f. Calvinus
Olympic victor in the stadion race: Boeotus of Sicyon

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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.}
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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