131 B.C. Olympiad 162.2Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | SIC << Rupilius restores order in Sicily, and draws up the regulations known as the lex Rupilia.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.2'34, '37-42,* '90; ValMax_6.9'8;L {CAH_9'589; Green_716.} |
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| 2 | ROM Crassus is sent to command the Roman forces in Asia.
* Read Cicero's account @ +Cic:Phil_11'18;* ~[Liv]:Per_59'a; ValMax_8.7'6;L ~Eutrop_4.20'1; +Oros_5.10'1;L {OCD_c.} |
| 3 | Q.Metellus and Q.Pompeius are elected censors; this is the first time that both censors have been plebeians.
@ +FastCap_p72. |
| 4 | Q.Metellus seeks to encourage child-rearing.
* Read Gellius' account @ ~[Liv]:Per_59'b; Gell_1.6'1-8;* {CAH_9'74.} |
| 5 | The tribune C.Atinius Labeo attacks Q.Metellus, and threatens to throw him off the Tarpeian rock.
* Read Livy's account @ Cic:Dom_123; ~[Liv]:Per_59'b-c;* Seneca:Contr_10.1'8; Plin:HN_7'143-145;L {MRR_1'500.} |
| 6 | Scipio Aemilianus opposes C.Carbo's bill for the re-election of tribunes, and says that the killing of Ti.Gracchus was justified.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:DeOr_2'106,L '170,L :Mil_8, :Amic_96,L :Fam_9.21'3; ~[Liv]:Per_59'c; Vell_2.4'4; ValMax_6.2'3;L Plut:TGrac_21'8, :Mor_201'E-F;* Polyaen_8.16'5; [Vict]:VirIll_58'8;L {CAH_9'68.} |
| 7 | PON << The birth of Mithridates Eupator.
* Read Appian's account @ Sall:Hist_5'5; ~Strab_10.477'e;(4.10) ~Appian:Mith_112'a;* ~DioCass_36.9'5; Oros_6.5'7;L {~CAH_9'132; Green_558.} |
| 8 | THR ?? The Thracians put their king Zibelmius to death.
@ ~Diod_34.12'1; ValMax_9.2e'4.L |
| 9 | EGY ++ Ptolemaeus VII makes himself unpopular with his subjects by his many lawless acts during the first part of his reign.
@ Diod_33.6'1-6a'1. |
| 10 | Cleopatra gains control of Egypt, and Ptolemaeus escapes to Cyprus, after ruling for 15 years in Egypt.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_59'c-d;* Just_38.8'11; {CAH_9'311; Green_540.} |
| 11 | ROM ++ P.Crassus is a leading orator and a respected jurist.
@ Cic:DeOr_1'170,L '216,L :Brut_98.L |
| 12 | AS1 << The death of Scipio Nasica.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plin:HN_7'120;L Plut:TGrac_21'6;* {~OCD_s.} |
| 13 | Crassus punishes a magistrate from Mylassa who did not completely obey his orders.
@ Gell_1.13'9-13. |
| 14 | Crassus is defeated and killed by Aristonicus.
* Read Justin's account @ +[Liv]:Per_59'a; Strab_14.646'e;(1.38) Vell_2.4'1; ValMax_3.2'12;L Flor_1.35'4-5;L Just_36.4'7-8;* Obseq_28;L Eutrop_4.20'1; +Oros_5.10'2-3;L {CAH_8'380; CAH_9'34.} |
| 15 | ROM == C.Carbo passes the Lex Papiria, which extends the secret ballot in voting for laws.
@ Cic:Leg_3'35;L {CAH_9'45; OCD_l.} |
| 16 | << D.Brutus adorns temples with his spoils from Spain, and inscribes verses of Accius on their walls.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Arch_27;* ValMax_8.14'2;L Plin:HN_36'26.L |
| 17 | ITA Document: CIL_639L and 640, two boundary stones put up by the Gracchan agrarian commision.
@ ROL_p168. |
| 18 | Document: CIL_638L (= ILS_23), recording how agriculture was encouraged by either T.Annius or P.Popillius.
@ ROL_p150; {CAH_9'73.} |
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