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137 B.C. Olympiad 160.4


Consuls: M. Aemilius M.f. Lepidus Porcina, C. Hostilius A.f. Mancinus
Athenian archon: Heracleitus

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1 SPA << D.Brutus founds Valentia.
* Read Livy's account
Diod_33.1'4; ~[Liv]:Per_55; { CAH_8'139; OCD³.}
2 ROM ?? Ti.Gracchus marries Claudia.
Plut:TGrac_4'1-4.
3 Inauspicious omens as the consul Mancinus leaves for Spain.
* Read Livy's account
+[Liv]:Per_55; +ValMax_1.6'7; Plut:TGrac_8'9; +Obseq_24; [Vict]:VirIll_59'1; +Oros_5.4'19.
3a EGY {23 Mecheir -E = March} Document: AET_9.4'D, a 'self-dedication' document at Tebtunis.
4 LUS << D.Brutus subdues Lusitania.
* Read Appian's account
~Diod_33.24'1; +[Liv]:EpOx_55'212;L  Strab_3'152;(3.1)  Flor_1.33'12; ~Appian:Hisp_71; Festus:Brev_5'1; { CAH_8'138; Green_715.}
5 SPA {9 June} D.Brutus crosses the river Oblivio and invades Gallaecia.
* Read Appian's account
Diod_33.26'1; ~[Liv]:Per_55, +:EpOx_55'215-217;L  #Ovid:Fast_6'461-462; Vell_2.5'1; Plut:Mor_272'D; Flor_1.33'12; ~Appian:Hisp_72-73; Festus:Brev_5'1; !Hieron:Chron_1875; Oros_5.5'12; { CAH_8'540.}
5a GRE << The Athenians reintroduce the Pythaïs procession to Delphi.
Syll_696.
6 EGY ?? Document: PTeb_786, a petition to the strategus Phanias from the royal peasants of Oxyrhyncha.
7 AS1 ?? Attalus III purges his opponents.
* Read Justin's account
~Diod_34.3'1; ~Just_36.4'1-4.
8 SPA Mancinus is completely defeated by the Numantines and forced to make a treaty with them.
* Read Plutarch's account
~[Liv]:Per_55; Vell_2.1'4, 90'3; Plut:TGrac_5'1-6'6; Flor_1.34'4-7; ~Appian:Hisp_80; Gell_6.9'12; +Obseq_24; [Vict]:VirIll_59'1-4; +Eutrop_4.17'1; August:DeCiv_3'21;(↓↓)  +Oros_5.4'20, 5'1-11; { CAH_8'135; OCD³.}
9 Lepidus replaces Mancinus as Roman commander.
+Appian:Hisp_80-81; { CAH_8'135.}
9a EGY {9 Thoth -E = October} Document: THI_222.B, a dedication by a soldier at Theadelphia.
10 ROM The tribune L. Cassius passes a law to introduce secret ballots in all trials before the people, despite the opposition of his colleague Briso.
* Read Cicero's account
Cic:Sest_103, ~:Leg_3'35-37,L  +:Brut_97, 106, :Acad_2'13, :Amic_41; Ascon_78;L  Schol:Bob_135;L  { CAH_9'45, '61; DPRR.}
11 == The allocation of provinces to quaestors is regulated by a senatus consultum.
+Justin:Dig_1.13.1'2<q" Ulpian>.
12 ?? Q.Pompeius is brought to trial by Q.Metellus and others, but acquitted.
Cic:Font_23, 27.
13 EXT ?? The Buddhist holy man Mahadharmaraksita travels from Alexandria to Anuradhapura for the inauguration of the Great Thupa.
Mahavamsa_29; { in the later part of the reign of the Sinhalese king Dutugemunu.}

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