back 126 B.C. Olympiad 163.3

Consuls: M. Aemilius Lepidus, L. Aurelius L.f. Orestes

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1 ROM M.Junius Pennus passes a law banning all foreigners from Rome.
@ Lucil_1017; +Cic:Brut_109,L  :Off_3'47;L  Plin:HN_29'16;L  {CAH_8'240; CAH_9'76.}
2 EGY << Document: UPZ_2.187, a letter from Osoroeris complaining about grave robbers.
@ Bagnall_141.
3 {9 Pauni -E = June} Document: PGrenf_1.21, the will of Dryton the Cretan.
@ PLoeb_1.83.
4 GRE << Cleitomachus becomes head of the Academy after the death of Crates of Tarsus.
* Read Apollodorus' account
@ ~Apollod:Fr_55,*  56; {CAH_8'162; OCD_cl.}
5 ROM ++ The impoverished childhood of M.Scaurus.
@ [Vict]:VirIll_72'1-2.L 
6 SAR Orestes subdues the Sardinians.
* Read Livy's account
@ +[Liv]:Per_60'a;*  [Vict]:VirIll_72'3;L  {CAH_9'781; Green_716.}
7 C.Gracchus takes part in the fighting in Sardinia, as quaestor.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ +Plut:CGrac_1'4-2'1,*  22'3.
8 SYR Alexander Zabinas defeats Demetrius near Damascus.
* Read Josephus' account
@ Joseph:AJ_13'268;*  ~Just_39.1'7; ~[Euseb]:Chron_257'c; {Green_716; Holbl_p200.}
9 PHO Tyre gains independence from the Seleucids; beginning of the Tyrian era.
@ ~Hieron:Chron_2295; {OCD_t.}
10 ROM {11 November -R} The triumph of M'.Aquillius, over Aristonicus.
* Read Fasti's account
@ Cic:DeOr_2'195;L  Sall:Hist_4.69'8; #FastTr_p105;*  Vell_2.4'1; Appian:BCiv_1.22'a; {CAH_9'34; OCD_a.}
11 SIC Mt. Aetna erupts, and another eruption at sea leads to the formation of an island near Lipara.
* Read Strabo's account
@ Strab_6.277'a-b"* (2.11  Poseidon_88>; +Plin:HN_2'203;L  +Obseq_29;L  !Hieron:Chron_1892; +Oros_5.10'11.L 
12 == According to some, the fourth Ludi Saeculares were celebrated during this year.
@ +Censor:DN_17'11.L 
13 << Hypsaeus and Cn.Octavius have a ridiculous procedural dispute in a case heard by the praetor M.Crassus.
@ Cic:DeOr_1'166-167;L  {MRR_1'508.}
14 AEG << Document: IDelos_1526 and 1527, two inscriptions from Delos referring to protection given by "cousins" of Ptolemaeus Euergetes.
@ LewRein_1.p455'ii, 'iii.

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