back 158 B.C. Olympiad 155.3

Consuls: M. Aemilius M'.f. Lepidus, C. Popillius P.f. Laenas (II)

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1 ROM The Athenians and Delians send embassies to Rome about a legal dispute.
@ ~Polyb_32.7'1-5; {Walbank_p525.}
2 CAP << Orophernes drives Ariarathes out of Cappadocia.
* Read Polybius' account
@ Polyb_3.5'2; Diod_31.32'1; ~[Liv]:Per_47'a; Appian:Syr_47'b; Trog:Prol_34; Zonar_9.24'h; {CAH_8'359.}
3 GRE << Cleitomachus becomes a pupil of Carneades.
* Read Apollodorus' account
@ ~Apollod:Fr_56; Plut:Mor_328'C; {~OCD_cl.}
4 ASI ?? The poet Leschides accompanies Eumenes on his campaigns.
@ Suda_L'311.
5 ?? Eumenes creates a library at Pergamum by collecting a large number of books, which are written on parchment when the Egyptians ban the export of papyrus.
* Read Vitruvius' account
@ Vitr_7.pr'4; Strab_13.609'a.(1.54) 
6 LYC ?? Document: OGI_751, a letter from Attalus to Amlada.
@ Austin_205.
7 ASI ++ General remarks on the character of Eumenes, a wise and loyal king.
* Read Polybius' account
@ ~Polyb_32.8'1-7; Sall:Hist_4.67'8; Suda_E'3579.
8 << The death of Eumenes II, and accession of Attalus II.
* Read Strabo's account
@ OGI_264'c<t= Burstein_83>; FGrH_506'1; ~Polyb_32.12'1; Diod_31.36'1; Strab_13.624'c-d;(4.2)  Plut:Mor_184'B, 489'F; Trog:Prol_34; {CAH_8'334; OCD_a<160/59>; see also Walbank_p526.}
9 ROM The censors P.Scipio Nasica and M.Popillius complete the census.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~FastCap_p66; ~[Liv]:Per_47'a; Vell_2.3'1; Gell_4.20'11.
10 {19 August -R} The triumph of M.Fulvius, over the Eleates.
@ #FastTr_p105.
11 Ariarathes arrives in Rome after his expulsion from Cappadocia.
@ Polyb_31.10'1; {CAH_8'359..}

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