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| 1 | SAR << C.Gracchus obtains winter provisions for Orestes' army from the allies of Rome.
@ ~Plut:CGrac_2'2-5; { CAH_9'28<125/4>, '76.} |
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| 1a | EGY {27 Mecheir -E = March} Document: PTeb_281, a receipt for a tithe for the temple of Souchus. |
| 2 | SYR << Demetrius is killed at Tyre.
* Read Josephus' account @ ~[Liv]:Per_60; Joseph:AJ_13'268;* Appian:Syr_68; ~Just_39.1'8; Trog:Prol_39; ~[Euseb]:Chron_257;(↓) { OCD³; Green_541.} |
| 3 | Cleopatra kills her son Seleucus, after he proclaims himself king.
* Read Appian's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_50; Appian:Syr_69;* ~Just_39.1'9; ~[Euseb]:Chron_257;(↓) { Green_716.} |
| 4 | ROM Flaccus proposes a law to extend Roman citizenship to the Italian allies, but he is opposed by the senate.
* Read Appian's account @ +ValMax_9.5'1; +Appian:BCiv_1'21,* '34; { CAH_8'240-241; DPRR.} |
| 5 | ETR Fregellae revolts from Rome.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_60; Plut:CGrac_3'1;* +Obseq_30; [Vict]:VirIll_65'2; { CAH_8'242; CAH_9'76.} |
| 6 | NAR Massilia appeals for help against the Salluvii, and the senate sends out the consul Flaccus.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_60;* Tac:Hist_4'73; Flor_1.37'3; +Appian:BCiv_1'34; { CAH_9'24; OCD³.} |
| 7 | SYR Cleopatra sets up Antiochus Grypus as king.
* Read Justin's account @ ~Just_39.1'9;* ~[Euseb]:Chron_257;(↓) { Green_542.} |
| 8 | PAL Alexander Zabinas makes an alliance with Hyrcanus and the Jews.
@ ~Joseph:AJ_13'269. |
| 9 | ETR Fregellae is captured and destroyed by the praetor Opimius.
* Read Ammianus' account @ [Cic]:RhetHer_4'13, '22, '37; Cic:Planc_70; ~[Liv]:Per_60; Vell_2.6'4; ValMax_2.8'4; Ascon_17;L +Obseq_30; AmmMarc_25.9'10;* { CAH_9'76; OCD³.} |
| 10 | NAR Flaccus defeats the Salluvii.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_60;* +Obseq_30; AmmMarc_15.12'5; { CAH_9'24.} |
| 11 | ROM The census is conducted by the censors Cn. Servilius Caepio and L.Cassius Longinus, who also bring the Aqua Tepula into Rome.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_60;* +Frontin:Aqu_1'8; { CAH_8'505; DPRR.} |
| 12 | L.Cassius punishes M.Aemilius with a heavy fine for building an ostentatious house.
* Read Velleius' account @ Vell_2.10'1;* ValMax_8.1d'7; { CAH_9'77.} |
| 13 | The senate refuses to grant a triumph to Opimius.
@ ValMax_2.8'4; { OCD³.} |
| 13a | {November} Timotheus son of Hyspaosines goes to Seleuceia-on-Tigris.
@ AstrDiar_124B.obv'5. |
| 14 | AFR == A plague of locusts causes devastation in Africa and Numidia.
* Read St.Augustine's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_60; +Obseq_30; August:DeCiv_3'31;* (↓) +Oros_5.11'1-5; { CAH_9'28.} |
| 15 | PAL == The birth of Alexander Jannaeus, who is brought up in Galilee.
* Read Josephus' account @ Joseph:AJ_13'322,* ~'404; { He was 49 years old when he died, in 76 B.C.} |
| 16 | AEG << Document: THI_23'C, an inscription recording the building works of Theophrastus, as superintendent of Delos. |
| 17 | NAR ?? The wealth of Luerius, father of Bituitus, who rides on a chariot scattering gold and silver for his followers to collect.
* Read Athenaeus' account @ Athen_4.152'd-f<q"* Poseidon_18>; Strab_4'191.(2.3) |
| 18 | AEG ?? Observations and discoveries made by the astronomer Hipparchus.
@ Plin:HN_2'57, '95; { ~ OCD³.} |
| 19 | SIC ++ General comments on Moschus of Syracuse, the second of the bucolic poets.
@ Suda_M'1278; { ~ OCD³.} |
| 20 | ROM ++ M'.Manilius is regularly consulted as an expert on law and other topics.
@ Cic:DeOr_3'133; { Manilius appears in Cicero's "De Republica", which is set in 129 B.C.} |
| 21 | ++ General comments on the character of C.Laelius "the Wise".
* Read Anon's account @ Lucil_200-202; [Cic]:RhetHer_4'19;* Cic:Fin_2'24-25, :Tusc_5'55; Plut:CatMin_7'3; { ~ OCD³.} |
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