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43 B.C. Olympiad 184.2


Consuls: C. Vibius C.f. Pansa Caetronianus , A. Hirtius A.f.
Athenian archon: (?) Polycharmus

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71 Document: Cic:Fam_10.34-35, letters from Lepidus to Cicero.
72 Document: Cic:Fam_10.25 & 12.25a, letters from Cicero to Furnius and Cornificius.
73 {May} Document: Cic:AdBrut_6 & 14, letters of Cicero to and from M.Brutus.
74 {June} Document: Cic:Fam_11.21 & 11.24-26, letters of Cicero to and from D.Brutus.
75 Document: Cic:Fam_10.32-33 & 12.13, letters from Pollio and Cassius Parmensis to Cicero.
76 Document: [Verg]:Cat_2 & 10, poems mocking Ventidius and Annius Cimber.
@  Quint_8.3'28-29; { Tenney Frank, Vergil, pp.81-86.}
77 PAL Herodes kills Malichus.
@  Joseph:BJ_1'229-235, :AJ_14'285-293.
78 ROM {30 June} Lepidus is declared a public enemy by the Roman senate.
@  #Cic:Fam_12.10'1, :AdBrut_20'2.
79 {June} Document: Cic:Fam_11.13a-16 & 11.25, letters of Cicero to and from Decimus Brutus.
80 Document: Cic:Fam_10.22-23, letters of Cicero to and from Plancus.
81 Document: Cic:Fam_10.26 & 12.30, letters from Cicero to Furnius and Cornificius.
82 Document: Cic:Fam_11.17, a letter from Cicero to (?) M.Brutus.
83 {June} Document: Cic:AdBrut_7 & 15-19, letters of Cicero to and from M.Brutus.
84 Document: Cic:AdBrut_25, a letter from M.Brutus to Atticus.
85 Document: Cic:Fam_12.8-10, letters from Cicero to Cassius.
86 Document: Cic:Fam_10.29 & 11.22, letters from Cicero to Appius Pulcher and Decimus Brutus.
87 SYR Dolabella is killed at Laodiceia, after being defeated by Cassius.
* Read Appian's account
@  Cic:Fam_12.13'4, 14'4, 15'7; [Liv]:Per_121; Strab_16'752;(2.9)  Vell_2.69'2, 84'2; Seneca:Suas_1'7; Joseph:BJ_1'231; Appian:BCiv_4'60-62,*  5'4; Gell_3.9'4; DioCass_47.30'1-7; Oros_6.18'13; { CAH_10'6; OCD³.}
88 ROM Octavianus sends some centurions to demand that he be made consul, but the senate refuses.
* Read Appian's account
@  (?) +Plut:Cic_45'4; +Appian:BCiv_3'85-88;*  +DioCass_46.42'1-43'5.
89 {July} Document: Cic:AdBrut_20-24 & 26, letters of Cicero to and from M.Brutus.
90 {28 July} Document: Cic:Fam_10.24, a letter from Plancus to Cicero.
91 Octavianus marches on Rome.
* Read Dio's account
@  [Liv]:Per_119; +Appian:BCiv_3'88-93; +DioCass_46.44'1-45'2;*  +Obseq_69; { CAH_9'485.}
92 {19 August} Octavianus is appointed consul.
* Read Dio's account
@  Aug:ResGest_1; FastCap_p80; #EhrJon:Fast_Aug19; [Liv]:Per_119; Vell_2.65'2; +Plut:Cic_45'4-46'2, :Brut_27'3; Tac:Ann_1'10, :Dial_17'2; Suet:Aug_26'1; +Appian:BCiv_3'94; +DioCass_46.45'3-46'4,*  #56.30'5; +Obseq_69; Eutrop_7.2'1; Macrob:Sat_1.12'35.L 
93 Octavianus forces the senate into compliance, and gives away money to his soldiers.
* Read Dio's account
@  (?) Suet:Caes_88'1; +Appian:BCiv_3'94; SHA:Sev_7'6; DioCass_46.46'5-47'8.* 
94 Document: [Cic]:AdOct_,L  a supposed letter from Cicero to Octavianus. { This letter is generally agreed to be spurious.}
95 CIS Decimus Brutus is pursued by Antonius, and killed after his troops desert him.
* Read Appian's account
@  Cic:Fam_11.13a'1; [Cic]:AdOct_7;L  [Liv]:Per_120; Strab_4'205;(6.7)  Vell_2.64'1-2; ValMax_4.7'6, 9.13'3; Sen:Ep_82'12-13; Appian:Ill_19, +:BCiv_3'97-98;*  +DioCass_46.53'1-54'1; Oros_6.18'7; { OCD³.}
96 ASI After M.Brutus crosses over to Asia, Gellius Publicola forms a plot against him.
* Read Dio's account
@  Cic:Fam_12.14'1; [Liv]:Per_122; DioCass_47.24'2-6;*  { CAH_9'485.}
97 ROM The murderers of Julius Caesar are condemned to death, as authorised by the Lex Pedia.
* Read Dio's account
@  Aug:ResGest_2; [Liv]:Per_120; Vell_2.69'5; Plut:Brut_27'4-5; Suet:Ner_3'1-2, :Gal_3'2; +Appian:BCiv_3'95, 4'27, 5'48; +DioCass_46.48'1-49'5;*  { OCD³.}
98 P.Titius is doomed to die before the end of the year, after deposing the tribune Servilius Casca.
@  DioCass_46.49'1-2; !Obseq_70; { DPRR.}
99 The death of Atia, the mother of Octavianus.
@  +Suet:Aug_61'2; { OCD³.}
100 CIS Octavianus, Antonius and Lepidus agree to form a political alliance - the Second Triumvirate.
* Read Appian's account
@  [Cic]:AdOct_7;L  [Liv]:Per_119; Vell_2.65'1; Suet:Aug_62'1; +Appian:BCiv_3'96-97;*  DioCass_47.43'6, 52.18'2; [Vict]:VirIll_85'2; Eutrop_7.2'1; +Cassiod:Chr_711; Oros_6.18'8.
101 {October} Octavianus, Antonius and Lepidus meet on an island near Bononia, to decide their next actions.
* Read Plutarch's account
@  [Liv]:Per_120; Vell_2.65'2; +Plut:Cic_46'2-3,*  :Brut_27'6, :Ant_19'1-2, 20'1; Flor_2.16'1-3; +Appian:BCiv_4'2-3, 5'43; +DioCass_46.54'1-56'4, 48.22'1; { CAH_9'486.}
102 SPA Sextus Pompeius uses his fleet to dominate the western Mediterranean sea.
@  Quint_3.8'44; Flor_2.18'1-2.
103 THR Brutus attacks the Bessi, a Thracian tribe.
* Read Dio's account
@  [Liv]:Per_122; ~Appian:BCiv_4'75;(↓)  DioCass_47.25'1-2.* 
104 CIL Cassius captures Tarsus, and forces its inhabitants to pay a large contribution to his army.
@  ~Appian:BCiv_4'63-64; DioCass_47.31'1-4.
105 ETR Octavianus performs a favourable sacrifice at Spoletium.
@  Plin:HN_11'190; +Suet:Aug_95'1.
106 ROM Various prodigies alarm the citizens of Rome as the triumvirs approach the city.
@  +Appian:BCiv_4'4; +DioCass_47.1'1-2'3.
107 {27 November} The triumvirs are formally appointed and granted extensive powers by the Lex Titia.
* Read Appian's account
@  #EhrJon:Fast_43BC; Aug:ResGest_1; +Appian:BCiv_4'7;*  Eutrop_7.8'2; ChronPasc_465'C; { CAH_10'1.}
108 Octavianus resigns as consul, and Ventidius is appointed consul in his place.
* Read Velleius' account
@  Vell_2.65'3;*  ValMax_6.9'9; Gell_15.4'3; { OCD³.}
109 The tribune Salvius and the praetor Minucius are killed, by order of the triumvirs.
@  Vell_2.64'3-4; +Appian:BCiv_4'17.
110 The triumvirs set up proscriptions, listing many of their opponents (including over 100 senators) who are condemned to immediate death.
* Read Appian's account
@  Vell_2.66'1-2; ValMax_5.7'3, 6.8'5, 9.5'4, 11'5-7; Plin:HN_7'134, '147, 13'25, 34'6; Plut:Ant_20'2; Suet:Aug_27'1; Flor_2.16'3-6; Appian:BCiv_4'5-6, +'7-18,* (↓)  '21-30; +DioCass_47.3'1-8'2, 8'5-9'2, 11'4, 56.37'3-4; Oros_6.18'9-12; { CAH_9'486.}
111 L.Caesar, the uncle of Antonius, and Paullus, the brother of Lepidus, are amongst the proscribed, but they are allowed to escape.
* Read Appian's account
@  [Liv]:Per_120; Vell_2.67'1-4; Plut:Cic_46'2-4, :Ant_19'2-4, 20'5-6, 92'2; Appian:BCiv_4'12, +'36-37;* (↓)  +DioCass_47.6'3, 8'1, '5; [Vict]:VirIll_85'3.
112 Q.Lucretius Vespillo is proscribed, but he is saved by the loyalty of his wife Turia.
@  (?) CIL_6.1527; ValMax_6.7'2; +Appian:BCiv_4'44.
113 Urbinius Panapio, Antius Restio, M.Volusius, M.Messala, M.Varro and others of the proscribed escape detection and death, in various ways.
* Read Appian's account
@  ValMax_6.8'6-7, 7.3'8; Sen:Ben_2.11'1, 3.25'1; Plin:HN_37'81-82; Aelian:Fr_121; +Appian:BCiv_4'38-48;*  +DioCass_47.7'4, 10'1-7, 11'3-4, 54.2'1; Macrob:Sat_1.11'16-20.L 
114 ?? Various sayings of Cicero.
* Read Plutarch's account
@  Plin:HN_36'46; Quint_6.3'84, '86, '96, 8.3'54; Plut:Cic_26'4-6,*  '8, 27'1-3, :Mor_204'E-205'E, 631'D;(2.1)  Macrob:Sat_2.3'2,L  '16,L  7.3'7;L  Servius:Ecl_6'11; Justin:Dig_50.16'96.
115 ITA {7 December} Cicero is killed by the soldiers of the triumvirs, after being included in the proscriptions.
* Read Plutarch's account
@  Vell_2.64'3-4, 66'2-5; ValMax_1.4'6, 5.3'4; Seneca:Contr_7.2'1-14,L  :Suas_6'1-7'11; Mart_5.69'1-8; Juvenal_10'118-126; Plut:Cic_47'1-48'4,*  54'1; #Tac:Dial_17'2-3; +Appian:BCiv_4'19-20; [Vict]:VirIll_81'6; Hieron:Chron_1975; August:DeCiv_3'30;(↓)  { CAH_9'487; OCD³.}
116 ++ General comments on the life and character of M.Cicero, as an orator and a politician.
* Read Seneca's account
@  Nepos:Att_16'1-4, :Fr_2; Vell_2.128'3; Seneca:Suas_6'21-27;*  Sen:Dial_10.5'1-3; Plin:HN_13'92; Quint_11.3'143, 12.1'16-17;*  Silius_8'406-411; Plut:Cic_24'6-7, :Mor_540'F-541'A; Plinius:Ep_3.15'1.
117 ROM Antonius and his wife Fulvia abuse the severed head of Cicero, which is placed on the rostra in Rome.
* Read Dio's account
@  [Liv]:Per_120; Seneca:Suas_6'17, '19, '21, '26; Plut:Cic_49'1-2, :Ant_20'3-4; Flor_2.16'5; +Appian:BCiv_4'20; +DioCass_47.8'3-4,*  11'1-2; Hieron:Chron_1975; Suda_Ph'567.
118 SIC Many of the proscribed join Sextus Pompeius after escaping from Italy by sea.
* Read Appian's account
@  [Liv]:Per_123; +Appian:BCiv_4'36,*  5'72;(↓)  +DioCass_47.12'1-3, 48.17'2-3, 30'5, 51.4'3; { CAH_10'5.}
119 ROM The triumvirs raise money by seizing the property of their opponents, and by taxing wealthy women.
* Read Appian's account
@  Nepos:Att_12'3-5; ValMax_8.3'3; Sen:Dial_6.20'5; Quint_1.1'6; Plut:Ant_21'1-5; Tac:Ann_1'10; +Appian:BCiv_4'31-35;*  +DioCass_47.13'1-15'4.
120 MAC C.Antonius is put to death by Hortensius, after attempting to start an uprising against Brutus.
* Read Plutarch's account
@  (?) Cic:AdBrut_7'3; [Liv]:Per_121; Sen:Dial_11.16'1-2; Plut:Brut_28'1,*  :Ant_22'6; +Appian:BCiv_3'79; DioCass_47.22'2-24'2; { CAH_10'6; OCD³=42.}
121 Brutus issues coins displaying his own image, with a liberty cap and two daggers on the other side.
@  ~DioCass_47.25'3; { pictures of these coins.}
122 ROM {29 December} The triumph of Plancus, from Gaul.
* Read Fasti's account
@  CIL_10.6087; #FastTr_p109;*  Vell_2.67'4; Plin:HN_35'108.
123 {31 December} The triumph of Lepidus, from Spain.
* Read Fasti's account
@  #FastTr_p109;*  Vell_2.67'4; Appian:BCiv_3'31.
124 == A public temple is dedicated at Rome to Serapis and Isis.
@  +DioCass_47.15'4.
125 == The death of Caecilia, the mother of Atticus.
@  Nepos:Att_17'1; { Atticus was 67 years old.}
126 == Publilius Syrus is in his prime.
@  +Hieron:Chron_1974.
127 << Varius writes a poem, called "De Morte", probably based on the death of Julius Caesar.
@  Macrob:Sat_6.1'39-40,L  2'19-20;L  { OCD³.}
128 GRE == Document: Sherk_84,B  Greek inscriptions in honour of M.Brutus.
129 GLT << Deiotarus kills his son-in-law Castor.
@  Strab_12'568;(5.3)  Suda_K'469; { Allegedly, in retaliation for bringing charges against Deiotarus in 45 B.C.}
130 == Document: THI_8, the epitaph of Deiotarus (?) Philopator.

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