140 B.C. Olympiad 160.1Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | ROM T.Torquatus judges his son Silanus guilty of extortion in Macedonia, and Silanus commits suicide.
* Read Livy's account @ Cic:Fin_1'24,L '34,L '35;L ~[Liv]:Per_54'a-b,* +:EpOx_54'178-181;L ValMax_5.8'3.L | ||||||||
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| 2 | LUS << Viriathus defeats the Romans under Fabius near the town of Erisane.
* Read Appian's account @ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'185;L ~Appian:Hisp_68'c-69'a;* {CAH_8'134.} | ||||||||
| 3 | Treaty between Viriathus and Fabius.
* Read Appian's account @ ~Diod_33.1'4; ~[Liv]:Per_54'b, +:EpOx_54'186;L ~Appian:Hisp_69'a-b;* +Obseq_23;L [Vict]:VirIll_71'2;L FGrH_103'26-27<q" Charax>; {CAH_8'134; OCD_v.} | ||||||||
| 4 | SPA Pompeius suffers reverses at Numantia.
* Read Appian's account @ ~Appian:Hisp_78'a-c;* DioCass_fr.77'1; {In the summer before Pompeius made a treaty with the Numantines.} | ||||||||
| 5 | MES Demetrius invades Mesopotamia.
* Read Josephus' account @ +1Macc_14'1; Joseph:AJ_13'184-186;* ~Just_36.1'1-4, 38.9'2; ![Euseb]:Chron_255'b; {CAH_8'368, '371.} | ||||||||
| 6 | EGY << Ptolemaeus Physcon marries his step-daughter Cleopatra, and brutally suppresses opposition in Alexandria, forcing many scholars to emigrate.
* Read Justin's account @ Burstein_106'28-38; ValMax_9.1e'5;L Ampel_35'5;L (?) POxy_1241; Athen_4.184'b-c<q" Menecles>; Just_38.8'5-7;* SHA:Carac_6'3; {CAH_9'311; OCD_c<140/39>.} | ||||||||
| 7 | ROM Laelius withdraws his proposed agrarian law.
@ Plut:TGrac_8'5; {CAH_8'195; OCD_l.} | ||||||||
| 8 | Appius Claudius prevents extra conscription.
@ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'176-178;L {CAH_8'194; CAH_9'60.} | ||||||||
| 9 | ROM Asellus attempts to stop the consul Caepio leaving for his province.
@ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'182-184.L | ||||||||
| 10 | PAL {18 Elul -J = Sept.} The Jews set up an inscription in honour of Simon.
@ #1Macc_14'25-49; {CAH_8'368<141>; CAH_9'285; Green_523-524.} | ||||||||
| 11 | ROM Scipio Aemilianus is brought to trial by the tribune Claudius Asellus.
* Read Gellius' account @ Lucil_424-425; Cic:DeOr_2'258;L Gell_3.4'1-3;* {CAH_8'178-179; CAH_9'60.} | ||||||||
| 12 | The senate discusses religious objections to bringing water from the river Anio into Rome.
* Read Frontinus' account @ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'188-190;L +Frontin:Aqu_1'7.* | ||||||||
| 13 | LUS Q.Occius is attacked by the Lusitani.
@ +[Liv]:EpOx_54'186-188.L | ||||||||
| 14 | AS1 ?? Document: Burstein_90, a letter from Attalus praising his son's tutor, a citizen of Ephesus. | ||||||||
| 15 | ARM << The births of Tigranes of Armenia and Tiraeus of Charax.
@ ~Lucian:Macr_15, 16. | ||||||||
| 16 | ROM ?? L.Mummius is unable to afford a dowry for his daughter.
@ Plin:HN_34'36;L {~OCD_m 17
| == The birth of the orator L.Crassus.
| @ Cic:DeOr_2'364,L +:Brut_160-162;L {OCD_c.} 18
| == Accius and Pacuvius both produce plays during this year, though Pacuvius is now 80 years old.
| @ ~Cic:Brut_229;L {Pacuvius was born in 220 B.C.} 19
| ++ General remarks on the career of P.Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum.
| @ Diod_34.33'1; Justin:Dig_1.2.2'37<q"L Pomponius>; {Nasica was princeps senatus in 147 B.C., but is not mentioned after that date.} 20
| GRE ?? The death of the philosopher Critolaus, who is succeeded as head of the Peripatetic school by Diodorus of Tyre.
| * Read Clement's account @ ~Lucian:Macr_20; ClemAl:Strom_1.14'e;* {Critolaus visited Rome in 155 B.C., but his dates are otherwise unknown.} |
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