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| 1 | IT+ The Romans send colonists to Puteoli, Volturnum, Liternum, Salernum, Buxentum, Sipontum, Tempsa, and Croton.
* Read Livy's account @ CIL_1.698; +Liv_34.45'1-8;* Strab_5'251;(4.13) !Hieron:Chron_1826; { CAH_8'207; OCD³.} | ||
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| 2 | PEL Flamininus addresses the Greeks at a congress at Corinth, and announces the withdrawal of the Roman forces.
* Read Livy's account @ Diod_28.13'1; +Liv_34.48'2-50'9;* Plut:Flam_13'4-8; ~Zonar_9'18;(p303) { CAH_8'277; OCD³.} | ||
| 3 | BAE Cato fails to bring the Turdetani and their Celtiberian allies to battle.
* Read Livy's account @ ~Liv_34.19'1-10;* Frontin:Str_4.7'35; Plut:CatMai_10'1-2, :Mor_199'C; Zonar_9'17;(p299) { CAH_8'124.} | ||
| 4 | CRE ?? The poet Rhianus receives a belated education after being the warden of a wrestling-school.
@ Suda_R'158; { Rhianus is said to have been a contemporary of Eratosthenes.} | ||
| 5 | EGY ?? Eratosthenes measures the circumference of the earth.
* Read Vitruvius' account @ Vitr_1.6'9;* Strab_2'132;(5.34) Plin:HN_2'247; Censor:DN_13'2; { Eratosthenes' method is described by Cleomedes ( 1.7'49B ).} | ||
| 6 | ?? Eratosthenes designs an instrument to solve a mathematical problem concerning the size of Apollo's altar at Delos.
@ Vitr_9.pr'13-14. | ||
| 7 | ++ General comments on the character and learning of Eratosthenes.
* Read Strabo's account @ Strab_1'15;(2.2) Suet:Gram_10; ClemAl:Strom_1'16;(↓) Suda_E'2898. | ||
| 8 | << The death of Eratosthenes.
* Read Suda's account @ AnthPal_7.78; Lucian:Macr_27; Censor:DN_15'2; ~Suda_E'2898;* { OCD³; Green_706=196.} | ||
| 9 | << Aristophanes is appointed to be head of the library at Alexandria.
* Read Vitruvius' account @ Vitr_7.pr'4-7;* POxy_1241; Suda_A'3936; { OCD³.} | ||
| 9a | EGY {Epeiph -E = August} Document: AET_7.18.A, a contract dated to the reign of the rebel king Chaonnophris. | ||
| 10 | SPA Cato subdues the Lacetani and Bergistani.
* Read Livy's account @ ~Liv_34.16'8-10;* Frontin:Str_3.10'1; { CAH_8'124.} | ||
| 11 | CIS Sempronius fights an indecisive battle against the Boii.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_34.46'4-48'1;* +Oros_4.20'15. | ||
| 12 | THR Antiochus protects Byzantium against the Thracians.
@ Appian:Syr_6; { CAH_8'124.} | ||
| 13 | SPA << Stratagems employed by Cato in Spain.
* Read Frontinus' account @ Frontin:Str_1.2'5,* 3.1'2. | ||
| 14 | ++ General comments on the conquests, and frugal lifestyle, of Cato in Spain.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Liv_42.34'6-7; ValMax_4.3'11; Frontin:Str_4.3'1; Plut:CatMai_10'4-6,* :Mor_199'D; Flor_1.33'8-9; Hieron:Chron_1821. | ||
| 15 | ROM Cato returns from Spain, and celebrates a triumph.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Nepos:Cat_2'1-2; +Liv_34.46'1-3; +FastTr_p102; Sen:Ep_87'10; Plin:HN_14'91; Plut:CatMai_5'7, 11'1-4.* | ||
| 16 | MAC << Document: BD_34 (Syll_593), a letter from Flamininus to the town of Chyretiae. | ||
| 16a | GRE Document: Syll_598, decrees of the Amphictyons and Aetolians in honour of Sosicles of Magnesia. | ||
| 17 | PEL ++ The upright conduct of Flamininus in Greece.
@ Plut:Sull_12'9-11. | ||
| 18 | ROM Flamininus celebrates a triumph for his victories over Philippus and Nabis.
* Read Livy's account @ Cic:Verr_2.4'129; +Liv_34.50'10-52'12;* +FastTr_p102; ValMax_5.2'6; Plut:Flam_13'9-14'2; Just_31.3'2; [Euseb]:Chron_243;(↓) Eutrop_4.2'2; Oros_4.20'2-3; { CAH_8'278; Green_418.} | ||
| 19 | == Scipio opens up the public treasury after the quaestors refuse to do so for legal reasons.
* Read Polybius' account @ Polyb_23.14'5-6;* Diod_29.21'1; Liv_38.55'13; ValMax_3.7'1; Plut:Mor_196'F; { See Walbank, p.244 20
| == Temples are dedicated to Juno Matuta, Faunus, Fortuna Primigenia, and Jupiter.
| @ +Liv_34.53'3-7. |
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