back 155 B.C. Olympiad 156.2

Consuls: P. Cornelius P.f. Scipio Nasica (II), M. Claudius M.f. Marcellus (II)

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1 ASI The senate sends legates to investigate the dispute between Prusias and Attalus.
@ ~Polyb_33.1'1-2; {Walbank_p542.}
2 ROM The senate votes against releasing the Achaean exiles.
@ ~Polyb_33.1'3-8.
3 EGY {Loius -M = March} Document: SEG_9.7, the will published by Ptolemaeus VIII.
* Read Bagnall's account
@ Bagnall_43; Festus:Brev_13'2; {Green_443.}
4 GRE ?? Diogenes is persuaded by Zenon (? of Tarsus) to study philosophy.
@ Plut:Mor_328'D.
5 ROM The Athenians send the philosophers Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus to appeal against the decision of the Sicyonians.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Apollod:Fr_57; Cic:DeOr_2'155,L  '157,L  3'68,L  +:Acad_2'137, :Tusc_4'5;L  Plin:HN_7'112-113;L  Quint_12.1'35; Plut:CatMai_22'1-23'1; Paus_7.11'5; Gell_6.14'8-10, 17.21'48;L  Aelian:VH_3'17; Macrob:Sat_1.5'14-16;L  {CAH_8'472-473; OCD_d.}
6 PEL The Achaeans send another embassy, led by Telecles and Anaxidamus, to Rome.
@ ~Polyb_33.3'1-2; {Walbank_p545.}
7 ASI Prusias advances as far as Pergamum.
* Read Polybius' account
@ Polyb_32.15'1-14; Diod_31.35'1; Appian:Mith_3'a-b; Suda_P'2914; {CAH_8'366.}
8 SYR << Orophernes, the brother of Ariarathes, plots against Demetrius.
@ Just_35.1'1-4; {Soon after Orophernes' expulsion from Cappadocia, when he had taken refuge in Syria.}
9 EGY << The floruit of Aristarchus the grammarian.
* Read St.Jerome's account
@ Strab_13.609'd;(1.55)  ChronPasc_441'B; +Hieron:Chron_1861; AmmMarc_22.16'16;L  Suda_A'3892.
10 GRE << Pythocles of Athens and others revive the art of sculpture.
@ +Plin:HN_34'52.L 
11 ROM << Polybius the historian persuades the Romans not to demand troops from Locri during the Dalmatian War.
@ Polyb_12.5'2-3.
12 ILL Scipio Nasica captures Delminium; the end of the Dalmatian War.
* Read Frontinus' account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_47'b; Strab_7.315'c;(5.5)  Frontin:Str_3.6'2; Ampel_19'11; [Vict]:VirIll_44'4;L  Zonar_9.25'g; {OCD_dal.}
13 ASI << Document: OGI_315.6, a letter from Attalus II to Attis describing a meeting of his advisers.
@ Bagnall_42.
14 EXT ++ The extent of the kingdom of Eucratides.
* Read Strabo's account
@ Strab_11.516'e,(11.2)  15.686'a;(1.3)  Aelian:NA_15'8.
15 ?? The death of Eucratides, king of Bactria.
@ Just_41.6'5; {CAH_8'403; OCD_b<145>.}
16 ASI The fleet of Prusias is destroyed in a storm.
@ Diod_31.35'1.
17 The Romans send out decemviri to restrain Prusias.
@ ~Polyb_33.7'1-4; {Walbank_p549.}
18 ROM ?? Cato marries Salonia, the daughter of his secretary.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Seneca:Contr_7.6'17; Plut:CatMai_24'1-8, 33'1-3; {Cato's son by Salonia was born in 154 B.C.}
19 >> The triumph of Marcellus, over the Apuani.
@ +FastTr_p105.
20 >> Scipio refuses to celebrate a triumph, despite the approval of the senate.
* Read Fasti's account
@ +FastTr_p105; Ampel_19'11; [Vict]:VirIll_44'5.L 
21 >> A fig-tree grows on the altar of Jupiter on the Capitol.
@ ~Plin:HN_17'244.L 

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