back 287 B.C. Olympiad 123.2

Consuls: M. Claudius M.f. Marcellus, C. Nautius Rutilus
Athenian archon: Xenophon

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1 GRE Olympiodorus captures the Museium, and frees Athens from its Macedonian garrison.
* Read Pausanias' account
@ SIG_374'28-37<t= Bagnall_13>; Austin_55'11-27; Paus_1.25'2, 26'1-2,*  29'13; {CAH_7.1'108; OCD_o..}
3 PON << Lysimachus captures Heracleia and kills the tyrants Oxathras and Clearchus.
* Read Memnon's account
@ ~Diod_20.77'1; Memn_5'3;*  Polyaen_6.12'1; Just_16.3'3; Trog:Prol_16; {CAH_7.1'108.}
4 << Lysimachus gives the cities of Heracleia, Tius, and Amastris as a gift to his wife Arsinoe.
@ Memn_5'4-5; {Green_119.}
5 ASI << Document: OGI_214, a letter of Seleucus to the city of Miletus, about a dedication at Didyma.
@ Burstein_9.
6 SIC << Hicetas establishes himself as tyrant of Syracuse.
@ ~Diod_22.7'2; {Hicetas remained in power for nine years, until replaced by Thoenon.}
7 PAL << Eleazar becomes Jewish high priest.
* Read St.Jerome's account
@ Joseph:AJ_12'44; ChronPasc_421'B, 464'A; +Hieron:Chron_1729;*  ExcBarb_35B; ChronSynt_95'c; GeorgMon_p436'b.
8 GRE Demetrius makes peace with Pyrrhus and the Athenians.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Austin_55'28-43; ~Plut:Pyrrh_12'2-8,*  ~:Demetr_46'1-3; {CAH_7.1'108; Green_128.}
9 ?? The floruit of Anaxippus, a writer of comedies.
@ Suda_A'1911; {"under Antigonus and Demetrius".}
9a ?? Leontium writes a letter to Lamia, complaining about the behaviour of Epicurus.
@ Alciphr_2'2; {This letter is not genuine.}
10 MAC ?? Menedemus is sent as ambassador from Eretria to Demetrius.
* Read Diogenes' account
@ DiogLaert_2'140-141,* (M.16)  '143.(M.17) 
11 ASI Demetrius lands in Asia.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~Plut:Demetr_46'4-5;*  Paus_1.10'2; +[Euseb]:Chron_237'a-b; {OCD_d; Green_129.}
12 ROM The populace secedes to the Janiculum, in a dispute over debts; Q.Hortensius passes laws to settle their grievances.
* Read Dio's account
@ ~Diod_21.18'2; ~[Liv]:Per_11'c; Plin:HN_16'37;L  Justin:Dig_1.2.2'8<q"L  Pomponius>; DioCass_fr.37'2-4;*  August:DeCiv_3.17'l; Macrob:Sat_1.16'30;L  ~Zonar_8.2'a; {CAH_7.2'400; OCD_h-1.}
13 The death of Q.Hortensius, the dictator.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_11'c;*  August:DeCiv_3.17'l.
14 ?? The Lex Aquilia, an early Roman law about unlawful damage, is introduced by the tribune Aquilius.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Tul_9-12;*  Justin:Dig_19.2.30'2<q"L  Alfenus>; Justin:Dig_19.5'11,L  36.1.72'1<q" Pomponius>; Gaius:Inst_3'202,L  '210-219;L  Justin:Dig_19.2.25'5<q"L  Gaius>; Justin:Dig_9.4.19'1,L  11.3.5'1,L  11.3.14'7,L  47.2.32'1<q" Paulus>; Justin:Dig_11.3.5'2,L  13.6.7'1,L  47.1.2'1-3, 4.1'2, 8.2'10, '20, 10.1'1, 10.7'1<q" Ulpian>; Justin:Dig_9.2'1-57.L 

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