139 B.C. Olympiad 160.2Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ROM << The senate authorizes renewal of the war against Viriathus.
* Read Appian's account @ Diod_33.1'4; ~Appian:Hisp_70'a;* {CAH_8'134.} |
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| 2 | SPA << Pompeius agrees to a treaty with the Numantines, after his army suffers severely during the winter.
* Read Appian's account @ Cic:Rep_3'28;L Diod_33.16'1-2; ~[Liv]:Per_54'a; Vell_2.1'4, 90'3; Flor_1.34'4;L ~Appian:Hisp_79'a-b;* ~Eutrop_4.17'1; Oros_5.4'21;L {CAH_8'134; OCD_p.} |
| 3 | EGY << Scipio visits Egypt, where his companions privately express their contempt for king Ptolemaeus.
* Read Athenaeus' account @ Athen_6.273'a, 12.549'd-e<q"* Poseidon_6>; Cic:Rep_6'11,L :Acad_2'5; ~Diod_33.28b'1-4; Strab_17.798'a;(1.12) ValMax_4.3'13;L Plut:Mor_200'E-201'A; ~Just_38.8'8-11; [Vict]:VirIll_58'7;L {CAH_8'540; OCD_s<144/3>.} |
| 4 | ROM The senate disowns Pompeius' treaty.
* Read Appian's account @ Cic:Fin_2'54,L :Off_3'109;L Vell_2.1'5; ValMax_8.5'1;L ~Appian:Hisp_79'b-c;* {CAH_8'540.} |
| 5 | The Chaldaeans and Jews are expelled from Rome.
@ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'191-192;L +ValMax_1.3'3;L {CAH_8'220; CAH_9'291.} |
| 6 | The senate prevents Cn.Scipio from going to Spain.
@ ValMax_6.3'3;L {Scipio was praetor peregrinus in this year - see ValMax_1.3'3.} |
| 7 | The voting reform of the lex Gabinia tabellaria.
@ ~Cic:Leg_3'35,L :Amic_41;L +[Liv]:EpOx_54'193-194;L Plinius:Ep_3.20'1; {CAH_8'193; OCD_lex.} |
| 8 | LUS Negotiations between Viriathus and Popillius.
* Read Dio's account @ +Diod_33.19'1; DioCass_fr.75'1.* |
| 9 | Caepio forces Viriathus to retreat, but his severity makes him unpopular with his own soldiers.
* Read Appian's account @ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'195-196;L ~Appian:Hisp_70'a-b;* DioCass_fr.78'1-3; {CAH_8'134.} |
| 10 | SYR << Scipio visits Syria.
* Read Strabo's account @ Cic:Rep_6'11;L ~Diod_33.28b'3; Strab_14.669'a-b.* (5.2) |
| 11 | MES << Demetrius is captured by the Parthians.
* Read Justin's account @ ~1Macc_14'2-3; ~Diod_33.28'1; Joseph:AJ_13'186, '218; Appian:Syr_67'b; Athen_4.153'a; ~Just_36.1'5-6,* 38.9'2, 3; Trog:Prol_36, 38; ![Euseb]:Chron_255'c; Oros_5.4'17;L {CAH_8'368; OCD_d.} |
| 12 | GRE << Cleitomachus opens his own school of philosophy at Athens.
* Read Diogenes' account @ ~Apollod:Fr_56; DiogLaert_1'19;* (In.13) {OCD_c.} |
| 13 | LYC ?? The tyrant Semias is assassinated in Pisidia.
@ ~Diod_33.5a'1. |
| 14 | PEL << The restoration of the Achaean and other leagues.
@ +Paus_7.16'10; {Green_525.} |
| 15 | LUS ?? Stratagems employed by Viriathus against Segobriga, Segovia, and the Romans.
* Read Frontinus' account @ Frontin:Str_2.5'7,* 3.10'6, 11'4, 4.5'22. |
| 16 | ++ General comments on the cunning and bravery of Viriathus, and his prolonged resistance to the Romans.
* Read Dio's account @ Diod_33.1'5; Vell_2.90'3; Flor_1.33'15;L DioCass_fr.73'1-4;* Just_44.2'7-8. |
| 17 | Viriathus is treacherously assassinated by Audas and others.
* Read Appian's account @ Diod_33.1'4, 21'1; ~[Liv]:Per_54'b, +:EpOx_54'197-198;L Vell_2.1'3; ValMax_9.6'4;L Flor_1.33'17;L ~Appian:Hisp_74'a-75'b;* [Vict]:VirIll_71'3-4;L ~Eutrop_4.16'2; ~Oros_5.4'14;L {CAH_8'134; Green_715.} |
| 18 | EGY {10 Panemus = Sept.} Document: PTeb_6, a royal letter guaranteeing temple revenues.
@ Bagnall_138. |
| 19 | AEG Scipio visits Asia and Rhodes, where he meets Panaetius.
@ Cic:Rep_3'48;L Plut:Mor_777'A-B; Lucian:Macr_12; {CAH_8'381.} |
| 20 | ROM == The floruit of Accius the tragedian.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1878. |
| 21 | PEL ?? Document: SIG_684, a letter from Q.Fabius to the city of Dyme, describing the suppression of an attempted revolution in the city.
@ Bagnall_46. |
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