205 B.C. - events and references

205 B.C. Olympiad 143.4

Consuls: P. Cornelius P.f. Scipio, P. Licinius P.f. Crassus Dives

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1	ROM The Roman senate debates whether to invade Africa. * Read Livy's account @ Diod_27.2'1; +Liv_28.38'12-45'12;* Quint_3.8'17, '37; Silius_16'600-700;^L Plut:Fab_25'1-26'2; +Appian:Hann_55'a, :Pun_6'b-7'b; Polyaen_8.14'2; DioCass_fr.57'52; +Zonar_9.11'e-f; {CAH_8'62; OCD_scipio.}
2	Scipio leaves for Sicily. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_28.45'13-46'6;* +Appian:Hann_55'a, :Pun_8'a; {OCD_s.}
3	CIS Mago arrives in Liguria. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_28.46'7-14,* 29.3'15; ~Appian:Hann_54'a-b; +Zonar_9.11'f; {CAH_8'56; OCD_m.}
4	NUM Masinissa recovers his father's kingdom. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_29.30'1-13;* Appian:Pun_10'c-11'b.
5	ITA Hannibal is forced to remain mostly inactive by an epidemic in his army and by lack of supplies. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_28.46'15-16;* ~Appian:Hann_54'b-c; +Zonar_9.11'f; {CAH_8'56.}
6	SIC Scipio prepares an army of invasion in Sicily. * Read Livy's account @ Ennius:Ann_297-299; +Liv_29.1'1-18,* 38.51'1; ValMax_3.6'1,^L 7.3'3;^L Sen:Dial_3.11'6; Tac:Ann_2'59; Plut:Mor_196'C; +Appian:Hann_55'b, :Pun_8'a-b; +Zonar_9.11'g; {CAH_8'63; Green_704.}
7	SPA The Romans crush a rebellion by Indibilis and Mandonius. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_29.1'19-3'6;* Appian:Hisp_38'b-c; {CAH_8'60-61.}
8	MAC Philippus marches to Apollonia to face a Roman force led by Sempronius. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_29.12'2-7;* +Zonar_9.11'g; {CAH_8'104; Green_300.}
9	GRE ?? Paulus, a friend of Lacydes, resists bravely when put to torture. @ ClemAl:Strom_4.8'a.
10	<< The death of the philosopher Lacydes, after a long illness. @ ~Apollod:Fr_47.
11	ASI ?? Antiochus sends Jewish settlers to Phrygia and Lycia. @ Joseph:AJ_12'147; {While Antiochus was away in the east.}
12	EXT ?? Antiochus receives the epithet "the Great". @ Appian:Syr_1'a; {Green_296.}
13	PER ?? Document: OGI_233, a decree of Antiocheia-in-Persis renewing its close connections with Magnesia on the Maeander. @ Austin_190.
14	CIS Mago receives reinforcements from Carthage, and sets about raising an army from Liguria. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_29.3'7-5'9,* 24'5; ~Appian:Hann_54'b, :Pun_9'a-b; Zonar_9.11'i.
15	ITA The Romans recapture Locri, despite a counter-attack by Hannibal. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_29.6'1-8'5,* 17'1-4, '10; +Appian:Hann_55'b; +Zonar_9.11'g-h; {CAH_8'56; OCD_scipio.}
16	NUM << Syphax defeats Masinissa and drives him out of his kingdom. * Read Livy's account @ ~Liv_29.31'1-33'9,* 30.13'7, 37.25'9; Appian:Pun_11'b-12'b; DioCass_fr.57'53; {CAH_8'63, '527.}
17	ITA The vicious conduct of Pleminius as Roman governor of Locri. * Read Livy's account @ Diod_27.4'1-5; +Liv_29.8'6-9'12,* 18'7-15, 34.44'7; ValMax_1.1'21;^L +Appian:Hann_55'b; {CAH_8'56.}
18	EPI ++ General descriptions of the First Macedonian War. * Read Zonaras' account @ Silius_15'291-316;^L Zonar_9.15'a.*
19	The peace of Phoenice between the Romans and Philippus; end of the First Macedonian War. * Read Livy's account @ Polyb_18.1'14; Sall:Hist_4'69'6; +Liv_29.12'8-16,* 31.1'8, 31'19; Silius_15'317-319;^L Appian:Mac_3'4;⁽⁴⁾ Just_29.4'11; Trog:Prol_29; +Zonar_9.11'f-g; {CAH_8'104-105; OCD_phil.}
20	ROM Q.Caecilius Metellus is appointed dictator to hold the consular elections. * Read Livy's account @ Ennius:Ann_300-305; Liv_30.23'3,* 35.8'4; +FastCap_p62; {OCD_m.}
21	== After consulting the Sibylline Books, the Romans send envoys to Attalus in an attempt to obtain the sacred stone of the Idaean Mother. * Read Livy's account @ Cic:HarResp_27; +Liv_29.10'4-11'8,* 38'6; Ovid:Fast_4'249-290;^L Strab_12.567'e;^(5.3) ~Appian:Hann_56'a; Herodian_1.11'3; Julian:Or_5.159'C-D; August:DeCiv_3.12'a; {CAH_8'427.}
22	ITA == T.Flamininus as praetor is appointed governor of Tarentum. @ Plut:Flam_1'4-5; {OCD_f.}
23	ROM >> A temple vowed to Virtue by Marcellus is dedicated by his son. * Read Livy's account @ +Liv_29.11'13;* Plut:Mor_322'C.

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