251 B.C. Olympiad 132.2Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | EGY {6 Choiach -E = January} Document: PFreib_7, a letter from Antipater to Pythocles.
@ PLoeb_2.412. |
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| 2 | +%EG + The long-established tyrants of Sicyon before Nicocles cause many of the leading citizens to go into exile.
@ Plut:Arat_9'4. |
| 3 | PEL {January ?} Nicocles assassinates Paseas and makes himself tyrant of Sicyon.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Arat_3'4-4'1;* Paus_2.8'3; {CAH_7.1'243..} |
| 4 | ROM {13 April -R} The triumph of Cotta, over the Carthaginians and Sicilians.
@ #FastTr_p100. |
| 5 | THR ?? Antiochus threatens to go to war against Byzantium, but the dispute is settled without fighting.
@ ~Memn_15'1. |
| 6 | PEL Aratus organizes a plot against the tyrant Nicocles.
@ Plut:Arat_4'1-6'1. |
| 7 | {5 Daisios -M = May} Aratus overpowers Nicocles' bodyguard and forces him to leave Sicyon.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Polyb_2.43'3, 4.8'4, 10.22'3; Cic:Off_2'81;L Strab_8.382'e;(6.25) Plut:Phil_1'4, ~:Arat_6'2-9'3,* #53'5, :Mor_804'F; Paus_2.8'3; Suda_Ph'409; {CAH_7.1'244; OCD_a.} |
| 8 | PEL ?? A temple and other dedications made by Aristodemus at Megalopolis.
* Read Pausanias' account @ Paus_8.32'4,* 35'5, 36'5. |
| 9 | << Aristodemus the tyrant of Megalopolis is assassinated in a plot organized by Ecdemus and Demophanes.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_10.22'2;* Plut:Phil_1'4; {CAH_7.1'247; Green_696.} |
| 10 | The Spartans attack Megalopolis, but their siege machines are destroyed in a storm.
* Read Pausanias' account @ Paus_8.27'13-14,* 36'6; {In Pausanias' garbled account, this precedes the battle at Mantinea. It must have been after the death of Aristodemus.} |
| 11 | The Sicyonians recall their exiles.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Plut:Arat_9'4-5;* Paus_2.8'3. |
| 12 | Aratus persuades the Sicyonians to join the Achaean League.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Polyb_2.43'3; Strab_8.382'e,(6.25) 385'c;(7.3) ~Plut:Arat_9'6-11'2;* Paus_2.8'4, 7.7'2; Trog:Prol_26; {CAH_7.1'244; OCD_a.} |
| 13 | ROM Metellus is told by a soothsayer to sacrifice his daughter to ensure a safe crossing to Sicily.
@ Plut:Mor_309'A-B. |
| 14 | SIC Neither side is able to achieve a breakthrough in Sicily.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.39'8-14;* +Zonar_8.14'g. |
| 15 | PEL A combined army of Arcadians and Achaeans defeats the Spartans at Mantineia.
* Read Pausanias' account @ Paus_6.2'4, 8.8'11, 10'5-9,* 27'14; {CAH_7.1'247; see also Walbank i,p238.} |
| 16 | EGY Document: PLille_1.41, instructions for a loan of barley.
@ PLoeb_2.391. |
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