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| 1 | SIC << Rupilius restores order in Sicily, and draws up the regulations known as the lex Rupilia.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Verr_2.2'34, '37-42,* '90; ValMax_6.9'8; { CAH_9'589; Green_716.} |
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| 2 | ROM Crassus is sent to command the Roman forces in Asia.
* Read Cicero's account @ +Cic:Phil_11'18;* ~[Liv]:Per_59; ValMax_8.7'6; ~Eutrop_4.20'1; +Oros_5.10'1; { DPRR.} |
| 3 | Q.Metellus and Q.Pompeius are elected censors; this is the first time that both censors have been plebeians.
@ +FastCap_p72. |
| 4 | Q.Metellus seeks to encourage child-rearing.
* Read Gellius' account @ ~[Liv]:Per_59; Gell_1.6'1-8;* { CAH_9'74.} |
| 5 | The tribune C.Atinius Labeo attacks Q.Metellus, and threatens to throw him off the Tarpeian rock.
* Read Livy's account @ Cic:Dom_123; ~[Liv]:Per_59;* Seneca:Contr_10.1'8;L Plin:HN_7'143-145; { DPRR.} |
| 6 | Scipio Aemilianus opposes C.Carbo's bill for the re-election of tribunes, and says that the killing of Ti.Gracchus was justified.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Cic:DeOr_2'106, '170, :Mil_8, :Amic_96, :Fam_9.21'3; ~[Liv]:Per_59; Vell_2.4'4; ValMax_6.2'3; Plut:TGrac_21'8, :Mor_201'E-F;* Polyaen_8.16'5; [Vict]:VirIll_58'8; { CAH_9'68.} |
| 6b | PER {Xandicus -M} Document: THI_54.B, recording a slave girl's manumission at Susa. |
| 7 | PON << The birth of Mithridates Eupator.
* Read Appian's account @ Sall:Hist_5'5;L ~Strab_10'477;(4.10) ~Appian:Mith_112;* ~DioCass_36.9'5; Oros_6.5'7; { ~ CAH_9'132; Green_558.} |
| 8 | THR ?? The Thracians put their king Zibelmius to death.
@ ~Diod_34.12'1; ValMax_9.2e'4. |
| 9 | EGY ++ Ptolemy VIII makes himself unpopular with his subjects by his many lawless acts during the first part of his reign.
@ Diod_33.6'1-6a'1. |
| 10 | >> Cleopatra gains control of Egypt, and Ptolemy escapes to Cyprus, after ruling for 15 years in Egypt.
* Read Livy's account @ ~[Liv]:Per_59;* Just_38.8'11; { CAH_9'311; Bennett=130.} |
| 11 | ROM ++ P.Crassus is a leading orator and a respected jurist.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:DeOr_1'170, '216, :Brut_98.* |
| 12 | AS1 << The death of Scipio Nasica.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plin:HN_7'120; Plut:TGrac_21'6;* { ~ OCD³.} |
| 13 | Crassus punishes a magistrate from Mylassa who did not completely obey his orders.
@ Gell_1.13'9-13. |
| 14 | Crassus is defeated and killed by Aristonicus.
* Read Florus' account @ +[Liv]:Per_59; Strab_14'646;(1.38) Vell_2.4'1; ValMax_3.2'12; Flor_1.35'4-5;* Just_36.4'7-8; Obseq_28; Eutrop_4.20'1; +Oros_5.10'2-3; { CAH_8'380; CAH_9'34.} |
| 14a | EGY {1 Choiak -E = December} Document: AET_6.20.D, a report from priests at Socnopaei Nesus. |
| 15 | ROM == C.Carbo passes the Lex Papiria, which extends the secret ballot in voting for laws.
@ Cic:Leg_3'35;L { CAH_9'45; OCD³.} |
| 16 | << D.Brutus adorns temples with his spoils from Spain, and inscribes verses of Accius on their walls.
* Read Cicero's account @ Cic:Arch_27;* ValMax_8.14'2; Plin:HN_36'26; Schol:Bob_179.L |
| 17 | ITA Document: CIL_1.639 & 1.640, two boundary stones put up by the Gracchan agrarian commision. |
| 18 | Document: CIL_1.638, recording how agriculture was encouraged by either T.Annius or P.Popillius. { CAH_9'73.} |
| 19 | MES ?? Document: BabylChron_18, recording reprisals by Bagayasha, a Parthian leader, against the citizens of Babylon. |
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