278 B.C. Olympiad 125.3Click on the links in the lists of references to go to the sources for each event
| 1 | PAN The Gauls return home from Greece via Pannonia.
* Read Justin's account @ ~Diod_22.9'3; Athen_6.234'b; ~Just_32.3'7-12.* |
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| 2 | ITA Fabricius warns Pyrrhus that Nicias, his doctor, is plotting to kill him.
* Read Gellius' account @ Cic:Off_1'40,L 3'86-87;L ~[Liv]:Per_13'b-c; ValMax_6.5'1;L Sen:Ep_120'6; Frontin:Str_4.4'2; ~Plut:Pyrrh_21'1-6, :Mor_195'B; Gell_3.8'1-8;* Aelian:VH_12'33; Eutrop_2.14'1-3; AmmMarc_30.1'22;L Suda_A'3566; +Zonar_8.5'g-h; {CAH_7.2'477-478.} |
| 3 | The Roman garrison at Rhegium mutinies and seizes the town.
* Read Dionysius' account @ Polyb_1.7'7-9; ~Diod_22.1'2-3; Liv_28.28'2, 31.31'6; ~DionHal_20.4'3-8;* ~[Liv]:Per_12'b; Strab_6.258'e;(1.6) ValMax_2.7'15;L Appian:Sam_9'1-2;(19) DioCass_fr.40'7-12; Oros_4.3'4;L {According to Dionysius, this happened when Fabricius was consul.} |
| 4 | AEG Document: SIG_398, recording thanksgivings at Cos for the defeat of the Gauls at Delphi.
@ Bagnall_17. |
| 5 | ROM {20 June -R} A temple is dedicated to Jupiter Summanus.
@ #Ovid:Fast_6'731-732;L {CAH_7.2'408.} |
| 6 | SIC ?? Enna calls in a Carthaginian garrison to protect it against Phintias.
@ ~Diod_22.10'1. |
| 7 | MAC << The death of Sosthenes, which is followed by two years of anarchy in Macedonia.
@ ~[Euseb]:Chron_235'c, 237'a, 241'b, 243'a; +Hieron:Chron_1738; ExcBarb_44A; {Green_134<277?>.} |
| 8 | << Apollodorus sets himself up as tyrant of Cassandreia.
* Read Polyaenus' account @ Diod_22.5'1-2; Polyaen_6.7'1-2;* {Green_392.} |
| 9 | SIC << The death of the tyrant Phintias.
@ ~Diod_22.7'1. |
| 10 | << Thoenon replaces Hicetas as leader of Syracuse; but the Syracusans call on Sosistratus of Acragas to oppose him.
* Read Polyaenus' account @ ~Diod_22.7'2; Polyaen_5.37'1;* {CAH_7.2'474.} |
| 11 | << The Sicilians send an embassy to Pyrrhus, asking him to help them against the Carthaginians.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Diod_22.7'3, '6, 8'2; ~Plut:Pyrrh_22'1-3;* Paus_1.12'5; Just_18.2'11, 23.3'1; Trog:Prol_23; Oros_4.6'33;L +Zonar_8.5'i; {CAH_7.2'473-474.} |
| 12 | AEG << Document: IG_11.2.161A, the temple accounts of the Delian hieropoei.
@ Austin_104. |
| 13 | << Document: SIG_390, a decree of the League of Islanders about the institution of the Ptolemaeeia.
@ Austin_218. |
| 14 | EGY << The deification of Ptolemaeus I and Berenice, and the first celebration of the Ptolemaeeia.
* Read Athenaeus' account @ Austin_44'57-71; Athen_10.415'a-b;* {CAH_7.1'138; Green_693.} |
| 15 | ASI << Ptolemaeus II makes a gift of land to Miletus.
@ Austin_270'3-4; Burstein_25. |
| 16 | {Hecatombaeon -G = July/Aug.} The Athenians celebrate the Panathenaea, with help from Ptolemaeus II.
@ Austin_44'63-71. |
| 17 | PON << The navies of Antiochus and Nicomedes, who is aided by Heracleia, confront each other but do not fight.
@ ~Memn_10'2. |
| 18 | THR A band of Gauls led by Comontorius forces the Byzantines to pay tribute.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_4.45'10-46'4;* Liv_38.16'3; Memn_11'1-2. |
| 19 | SIC The Mamertines make an alliance with the Carthaginians and try to stop Pyrrhus crossing to Sicily.
@ ~Diod_22.7'4-5, 8'1. |
| 20 | ROM Cineas goes to Rome again, but he is unable to negotiate peace terms.
* Read Zonaras' account @ Appian:Sam_11'1-5,(27) 12'1;(29) +Zonar_8.5'i.* |
| 21 | ASI Nicomedes helps the Gauls to cross over from Thrace to Asia.
* Read Livy's account @ Polyb_1.6'5; Liv_38.16'3-7;* Strab_4.187'e,(1.13) 12.566'e,(5.1) 13.594'b;(1.27) ~Memn_11'1-3, 12'6; Paus_1.41'5, 7.6'8-9, 10.15'2, 23'14; Just_32.3'6; Trog:Prol_25; {CAH_7.1'415; OCD_galatia.} |
| 22 | PON << Zipoetes inflicts a defeat on the army of Chalcedon.
@ Plut:Mor_302'E-303'A. |
| 23 | A battle between Zipoetes and the army of Heracleia.
@ Memn_9'5. |
| 24 | Nicomedes uses the Gauls as allies in a civil war against Zipoetes.
* Read Memnon's account @ Liv_38.16'8-9; ~Memn_11'4-6;* Just_25.2'11; Trog:Prol_25. |
| 25 | PEL << Cleonymus captures Troezen from Craterus.
* Read Polyaenus' account @ Frontin:Str_3.6'7; Polyaen_2.29'1;* {This probably happened while Antigonus was distracted by the war against Antiochus; the Spartans held Troezen until about 272 B.C. (CAH_7.1'231).} |
| 26 | THR Peace between Antigonus Gonatas and Antiochus.
@ Just_25.1'1; {CAH_7.1'116.} |
| 27 | ITA ++ Pyrrhus' successes against the Romans during his first stay in Italy.
* Read Livy's account @ Liv_23.42'6;* Just_23.3'12. |
| 28 | Pyrrhus leaves Italy and crosses over to Sicily.
* Read Plutarch's account @ ~Diod_22.8'2-3; ~[Liv]:Per_14'a; ~Plut:Pyrrh_22'4-5,* 25'1; Appian:Sam_11'6,(28) 12'1;(29) Paus_1.12'5; Just_18.2'12; Trog:Prol_18; Oros_4.1'23;L +Zonar_8.5'j; {CAH_7.2'478; Green_230.} |
| 29 | SIC Pyrrhus arranges peace between Thoenon and his opponents at Syracuse.
* Read Dionysius' account @ ~Diod_22.8'3-5; DionHal_20.8'1;* {CAH_7.2'479.} |
| 30 | Embassies from many Sicilian cities come to Pyrrhus offering their support.
@ ~Diod_22.8'5; {CAH_7.2'479.} |
| 31 | Pyrrhus is proclaimed king of Sicily.
@ Just_23.3'2-3. |
| 32 | ROM ?? Fabricius refuses bribes offered by the Samnites.
* Read Gellius' account @ ValMax_4.3'6;L Gell_1.14'1-2;* {A similar story is told of Curius Dentatus; Fabricius fought against the Samnites in 281 and 278 B.C.} |
| 32a | MES {Arasamnu -B = Oct./Nov.} Robbers steal the property of some temples in the Juniper garden at Babylon.
@ BabylChron_17'1-5. |
| 33 | {13 December -R} Fabricius celebrates a triumph over the Lucanians, Bruttii, Tarentines and Samnites.
* Read Fasti's account @ #FastTr_p98;* ~[Liv]:Per_13'c; Eutrop_2.14'3; {CAH_7.2'278.} |
| 34 | P.Cornelius is elected consul, despite being a personal enemy of Fabricius.
@ Cic:DeOr_2'268.L |
| 35 | >> A Vestal Virgin is found to have been seduced, and is put to death.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1739. |
| 36 | ITA >> A treaty is signed between Rome and Heracleia.
@ Cic:Balb_50; {CAH_7.2'667.} |
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