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| 1 | EGY {11 Mecheir -E = Feb.} Document: SelPap_1.2, the marriage contract of Philiscus and Apollonia. |
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| 1a | PEL {? July} Protophanes of Magnesia wins the prizes for wrestling and the pancration at the Olympic Games.
@ +[Euseb]:Chron_211. |
| 2 | THR The Maedi defeat C.Sentius.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_70;* +Obseq_53. |
| 3 | ROM P.Rutilius is found guilty of extortion, though widely believed to be completely innocent, and goes into exile.
* Read Athenaeus' account @ Cic:Font_38, :Pis_95, :DeOr_1'229-231, :Brut_115; ~[Liv]:Per_70; Vell_2.13'2; ValMax_2.10'5, 6.4'4; Sen:Ben_5.17'2, 6.37'2, :Ep_67'7, 98'12; Quint_5.2'4, 11.1'13; Suet:Gram_6; Flor_2.5'3; Athen_4.168'd-e;* DioCass_fr.97'1-3; ~Oros_5.17'12-13; { CAH_9'103; OCD_r.} |
| 4 | ROM The censors ban schools of rhetoric at Rome.
* Read Suetonius' account @ ~Cic:DeOr_3'93; Tac:Dial_35'1; Suet:Rhet_1;* Gell_15.11'2; { CAH_9'690-692; Green_720.} |
| 5 | Quarrelling between the censors, L.Crassus and Cn.Domitius.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:DeOr_2'45, 3'10, :Brut_162,* 164; +FastCap_p74; ValMax_9.1'4; +Plin:HN_17'1-6;L Plut:Mor_811'A; Suet:Ner_2'2; Macrob:Sat_3.15'4-5;L { OCD_c.} |
| 6 | << Censorinus attempts to prosecutes Sulla for extortion, but fails to bring him to court.
@ Plut:Sull_5'12; { OCD_s.} |
| 7 | ITA ?? An earthquake devastates the area round Rhegium.
@ Strab_6'258;(1.6) { Shortly before the Marsic War.} |
| 8 | GRE ?? M.Drusus cures himself of epilepsy by drinking hellebore at Anticyra.
@ Gell_17.15'6. |
| 9 | ROM ?? Claudius Centumalus is found guilty of dishonestly selling his house to Calpurnius Lanarius.
@ Cic:Off_3'66; ValMax_8.2'1; { The judge in this case was M.Cato.} |
| 10 | ?? Caecilia, the wife of Metellus, has a dream about her husband's new wife.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Div_1'104;* ValMax_1.5'4. |
| 11 | ?? Metellus Numidicus replies to the insults of the tribune C.Manlius.
@ Gell_7.11'1-3. |
| 12 | ?? Metellus openly disapproves when his sister's husband dishonestly avoids a law suit.
@ [Vict]:VirIll_62'4. |
| 13 | ?? The death of Metellus Numidicus; according to some, he was poisoned by Q.Varius.
@ Cic:ND_3'81; { Probably before the start of the Social War.} |
| 14 | ?? M.Cato, the father of Cato Uticensis, dies while a candidate for the praetorship.
@ Gell_13.20'14; { DPRR.} |
| 15 | ?? The Lex Minucia defines the status of children, when only one of the parents is a Roman citizen.
@ Gaius:Inst_1'78-79;L { ~CAH_9'562.} |
| 16 | == The senate adopts the recommendation of L.Crassus concerning a complaint made by the consul C.Claudius against Cn.Carbo.
@ +Cic:Leg_3'42.L |
| 17 | == The actor Q.Roscius accepts compensation from Q.Flavius for a murdered slave.
@ ~Cic:QRosc_37; { Fifteen years before Cicero's speech in defence of Roscius - but the number in the text of Cicero may be garbled.} |
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