back 277 B.C. Olympiad 125.4

Consuls: P. Cornelius Cn.f. Rufinus (II), C. Junius C.f. Bubulcus Brutus (II)

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1 SIC Pyrrhus takes control of Acragas and thirty other cities which previously belonged to Sosistratus.
@ ~Diod_22.10'1; {CAH_7.2'479.}
2 Pyrrhus attacks the territory of the Carthaginians in Sicily.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~Diod_22.10'2; ~Plut:Pyrrh_22'6.* 
3 ITA The Samnites defeat the Romans on the Cranita hills.
@ +Zonar_8.6'a-c; {CAH_7.2'667.}
4 ASI ?? Epicurus rebukes Timocrates for breaking off his friendship with Metrodorus.
@ Plut:Mor_1126'C.
5 GRE ++ The friendship of Metrodorus and Epicurus.
* Read Seneca's account
@ Sen:Ep_79'15-16;*  Plut:Mor_1098'B, 1129'B; DiogLaert_10'22-23.
6 The death of Metrodorus, a follower of Epicurus.
@ Plut:Mor_1103'A; Aelian:Fr_39; ~DiogLaert_10'23; {OCD_m.}
7 AEG ?? Document: SIG_391, a decree of Delos in honour of Philocles, the admiral of Ptolemaeus.
@ Bagnall_61.
8 GLT << The Gauls gain control of a large area in Asia Minor.
* Read Livy's account
@ FGrH_745'1<q" Eratosth>; Diod_5.32'5; Liv_38.16'9-13;*  Strab_12.566'e;(5.1)  Memn_11'6-7; Flor_1.27'3;L  Just_25.2'11; Trog:Prol_25; Zonar_9.20'k-l; {CAH_7.1'423; Green_693.}
9 THR Negotiations between Antigonus and the Gauls.
@ ~Just_25.1'1-10.
10 Antigonus Gonatas defeats the Gauls near Lysimacheia.
* Read Diogenes' account
@ DiogLaert_2'141-142;* (M.17)  ~Just_25.2'1-10; Trog:Prol_25; {CAH_7.1'117; Green_134.}
11 ITA The Romans capture Croton.
* Read Zonaras' account
@ Liv_24.3'2; Frontin:Str_3.6'4; !Hieron:Chron_1734; +Zonar_8.6'b-d,*  'm; {CAH_7.2'450, '480.}
12 SIC Pyrrhus captures Eryx.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~Diod_22.10'3; ~Plut:Pyrrh_22'7-12;*  {CAH_7.2'479; OCD_e.}
13 The rest of the Carthaginian possessions in Sicily go over to Pyrrhus.
* Read Dionysius' account
@ ~Diod_22.10'4; DionHal_20.8'1;*  ~Zonar_8.5'j.
14 Pyrrhus defeats the Mamertines.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~Plut:Pyrrh_23'1;*  Trog:Prol_23; {CAH_7.2'479.}
15 MAC Antigonus Gonatas defeats Antipater and becomes king of Macedonia.
* Read Polyaenus' account
@ Memn_8'8; Paus_1.16'2; Polyaen_4.6'17;*  Lucian:Macr_11; ![Euseb]:Chron_235'd, !237'a-b, 241'b, 243'a, 245'd; !Hieron:Chron_1738; Vit:Arat_3'p15; {CAH_7.1'117; Green_134.}
16 Antigonus starts to besiege Cassandreia.
@ Polyaen_4.6'18; {~OCD_a; the siege lasted for 10 months.}

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