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| 1 | ROM {20 January -R} Document: Cic:Att_1.18, a letter from Cicero to Atticus. |
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| 2 | {15 March -R} Document: Cic:Att_1.19, another letter from Cicero to Atticus, describing raids by the Helvetii and attempts to transfer P.Clodius to the plebeians. |
| 3 | The optimates, led by L.Lucullus, oppose Pompeius' attempts to ratify his settlement of the East and to allot land to his veterans.
* Read Dio's account @ Vell_2.40'5; Plut:CatMin_31'1-2, :Luc_42'5-6, :Pomp_46'5-8; Suet:Caes_19'2; Flor_2.13'8-9; Appian:BCiv_2'9; +DioCass_37.49'1-50'1.* |
| 4 | BAE << C.Caesar governs Further Spain, and fights against the Lusitani.
* Read Dio's account @ Cic:Balb_43; Catull_29'18-19; [Caes]:BHisp_42'2; [Liv]:Per_103; Plut:Caes_12'1-4, 17'2; Suet:Caes_18'1, 54'1; Appian:Hisp_102, :BCiv_2'8; +DioCass_37.52'1-53'4,* 44.41'1-2, 45.40'3; Hieron:Chron_1957; { OCD³.} |
| 7 | The tribune Flavius imprisons the consul Metellus Celer.
* Read Dio's account @ Cic:Att_2.1'8; +DioCass_37.50'1-6;* { CAH_9'365.} |
| 8 | {May -R} Document: Cic:Att_1.20, a letter of Cicero to Atticus. |
| 9 | << Cato counters Clodius' accusations against the priests and priestesses, including Fabia.
@ Plut:CatMin_19'5-7; { This must have happened after the Bona Dea scandal, and before Clodius was elected tribune.} |
| 10 | Metellus Celer blocks further attempts to transfer Clodius to the plebeians.
* Read Dio's account @ Cic:Att_2.1'4; :HarResp_45; +DioCass_37.51'1-2.* |
| 11 | {June -R} Document: Cic:Att_2.1, a letter of Cicero to Atticus. |
| 11a | GRE << Document: THI_184.A, a decree of priests in Mantineia, in honour of a female benefactor. |
| 12 | BOS << Pharnaces attacks the city of Phanagoreia, and forces it to surrender.
@ Appian:Mith_120; { This probably happened soon after the death of Mithridates, when Pharnaces was recognised as king of Bosporus.} |
| 13 | ITA C.Octavius wipes out a group of runaway slaves at Thurii, on his way to the province of Macedonia.
@ Suet:Aug_3'1; { DPRR.} |
| 14 | ROM Cato forces Caesar to abandon his plans for a triumph.
* Read Dio's account @ Plut:CatMin_31'3-5, :Caes_13'1-2; Suet:Caes_18'1-2; Appian:BCiv_2'8; +DioCass_37.54'1-3,* 44.41'3-4; { CAH_9'366; OCD³.} |
| 15 | After widespread bribery, Bibulus overcomes L.Lucceius and is elected consul along with Caesar.
* Read Suetonius' account @ Ascon_91;L Plut:CatMin_31'5, :Caes_14'1-2, :Pomp_47'5, :Crass_14'1-2; Suet:Caes_19'1-2;* Appian:BCiv_2'9, 3'88. |
| 16 | Caesar reconciles Pompeius and Crassus, and together they form the First Triumvirate.
* Read Dio's account @ +[Liv]:Per_103; !Vell_2.44'1-2; Sen:Ben_5.16'4; Lucan_1'84-100; Plut:Luc_42'6, :Caes_13'3-6, :Pomp_47'1-4; Suet:Caes_19'2; +Flor_2.13'9-11; Appian:BCiv_2'9; +DioCass_37.54'3-58'1;* Malal_214; +ChronPasc_457'A; { CAH_9'366; OCD³.} |
| 17 | The senate attempts to curtail Caesar's power by allocating the "woods and pastures" as provinces for the new consuls.
@ ~Suet:Caes_19'2; { CAH_9'366.} |
| 18 | {December -R} Document: Cic:Att_2.2 & 2.3, two letters from Cicero to Atticus. |
| 19 | == Metellus Nepos passes a law to abolish import duties.
@ +DioCass_37.51'3-4. |
| 20 | == Faustus presents a lavish gladiatorial show in memory of his father Sulla.
@ +DioCass_37.51'4; { OCD³.} |
| 21 | == Omens, including a solar eclipse.
* Read Dio's account @ +DioCass_37.58'2-4;* +Obseq_62. |
| 22 | == The starting point of Asinius Pollio's history of the Roman civil wars.
@ +Hor:Od_2.1'1; { OCD³.} |
| 23 | == Diodorus' "Historical Library" ends with the events of this year.
@ Diod_1.4'7, 5'1; { OCD³.} |
| 23a | ?? The grammarians M.Antonius Gnipho and M.Pompilius Andronicus teach students at Rome and Cumae.
@ Suet:Gram_7-8; { Gnipho started by teaching Julius Caesar, but he did not live beyond fifty years of age.} |
| 24 | AEG ?? C.Cassius is taught by Archelaus at Rhodes.
@ Appian:BCiv_4'67-68; DioCass_47.33'4. |
| 25 | ?? Brutus studies at Rhodes and Athens, where he is taught by Pammenes.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:Brut_156; :Orat_105;L Plut:Brut_2'1-5;* [Vict]:VirIll_82'1-2; { Brutus was back in Rome by the time of the Vettius affair in 59 B.C.} |
| 26 | ASI << Q.Cicero refuses to reverse the conviction of Heracleides of Temnus, for defrauding Hermippus.
@ Cic:Flac_45-50. |
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