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| ROM {March -R} The senate debates the conduct of the war, and makes the capture of Capua its main objective for the coming year.
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+Liv_26.1'1-2'6.
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| 2
| Cn.Fulvius goes into exile after being accused by the tribune Sempronius Blaesus of negligence in the previous year.
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+Liv_26.2'7-3'12.
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| 3
| SIC << The Carthaginian admiral Bomilcar declines battle against the Roman fleet off Sicily.
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~Liv_25.27'1-3;
{ CAH_8'65.}
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| 4
| SPA ?? The Scipio brothers establish a Roman colony at Tarraco.
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Plin:HN_3'21;
{ ~OCD_t.}
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| 5
| The defeat and death of P.Scipio.
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Polyb_9.22'3;
~Liv_25.32'1-34'14,*
27.44'6,
28.43'10;
ValMax_3.7'1;
(?)
Frontin:Str_1.5'12;
Silius_13'654-657,
'669-686;
Flor_1.33'6;
Appian:Hisp_16;
+Eutrop_3.14'2;
~Oros_4.17'12;
~Zonar_9'5;(p175)
{ CAH_8'59; OCD_s.}
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| 6
| ROM ?? The daughter of Cn.Scipio receives a dowry at public expense.
* Read Zonaras' account
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ValMax_4.4'10;
Sen:Dial_12.12'6;
Frontin:Str_4.3'4;
AmmMarc_14.6'11;
Zonar_9'3.* (p167)
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| 7
| SPA The defeat and death of Cn.Scipio.
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Polyb_8.38'1,
9.22'3;
~Liv_25.35'1-36'16,*
27.44'6,
28.43'10;
ValMax_3.7'1;
Silius_13'687-695;
Flor_1.33'6;
Appian:Hisp_16;
+Eutrop_3.14'2;
AmmMarc_31.13'7;
~Oros_4.17'12;
~Zonar_9'5;(p175)
{ CAH_8'59; OCD_s.}
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| 8
| ITA Hannibal attacks the Roman army at Capua, but fails to dislodge it.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_9.3'1-5'6;*
+Liv_26.4'1-6'17;
Frontin:Str_4.7'29;
Silius_12'479-506;
Appian:Hann_38'
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| 9
| SIC << The Roman sympathiser Nicias escapes from his enemies at Enguion.
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~Plut:Marc_20'1-11.
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| 10
| GRE << The Aetolians enter into an alliance with the Romans, along with Attalus of Pergamon.
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BD_32;
Polyb_21.20'3,
22.8'10;
~Liv_26.24'1-16,*
37.53'7-8;
Silius_15'286-290;
Just_29.4'5;
Trog:Prol_29;
Julian:Caes_324'B;
~Eutrop_3.14'4;
!Hieron:Chron_1808;
~Zonar_9'6;(p187)
{ CAH_8'99-100; OCD_philip.}
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| 11
| EGY ?? Archimedes visits Egypt and invents "Archimedes' Screw".
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Diod_1.34'2,
5.37'3-4.
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| 12
| SIC ?? Archimedes constructs a globe which represents the movements of the heavenly bodies.
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Cic:Rep_1'21-22,
'28,
:Tusc_1'63;
Ovid:Fast_6'277-280.
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| 13
| ?? Archimedes requests that his tombstone shows his discovery of the ratio of the volumes of a cylinder circumscribing a sphere.
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Cic:Tusc_5'64,
'66;
Plut:Marc_17'12.*
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| 14
| ++ General remarks on the character and achievements of Archimedes.
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Cic:Acad_2'116;
Plut:Marc_17'5-11,*
:Mor_786'C,
1093'E,
1094'B.
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| 15
| Marcellus captures Syracuse; the death of Archimedes.
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~Polyb_9.10'1-13;
Cic:Verr_2.2'4,
'50,
4'115-116,
'120-123,
'130-131,
'151,
:Rep_1'21,
:Fin_5'50;
Diod_26.20'1-2;
~Liv_25.28'1-31'15,*
26.30'6-10,
31'4,
31.31'8;
ValMax_5.1'4,
8.7e'7;
Plin:HN_7'125;
Silius_14'627-683;
Plut:Marc_19'7-12,
21'1-7;
Flor_1.22'33-34;
Julian:Or_1.29'C;
+Eutrop_3.14'3;
!Hieron:Chron_1804;
August:DeCiv_1'6,
3'14;(↓)
+Oros_4.17'1;
+Zonar_9'5;(p177)
{ CAH_8'61; OCD_m=212.}
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| 16
| SPA The Roman survivors in Spain, led by L.Marcius, defeat Hasdrubal son of Gisgo.
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~Liv_25.37'1-39'18,*
26.37'8,
28.28'13;
ValMax_1.6'2,
2.7'15,
8.15'11;
Plin:HN_2'241,
35'14;
Frontin:Str_2.6'2,
10'2;
Silius_13'697-702;
{ CAH_8'59.}
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| 17
| GRE An abortive attack by the Aetolians on Acarnania.
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Polyb_9.40'4-6;*
~Liv_26.25'1-17;
~Zonar_9'6;(p187)
{ CAH_8'102; Green_703.}
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| 18
| ROM The senate instructs the consuls to proceed with the siege of Capua, but to send troops for the protection of Rome.
* Read Livy's account
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~Polyb_9.9'6-8;
+Liv_26.7'1-8'11,*
28.41'13;
Frontin:Str_3.13'2,
18'3;
~Zonar_9'6.(p179)
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| 19
| ITA Hannibal marches on Rome.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_9.5'7-6'9,*
15.7'3;
Nepos_23.5'1;
+Liv_26.9'1-10'10,
41'12,
30.30'17;
ValMax_3.7'10;
Silius_12'507-573,
17'497-499;
Flor_1.22'42-44;
Appian:Hann_38-39;
[Vict]:VirIll_42'6;
+Eutrop_3.14'1;
+Oros_4.17'2-3;
~Zonar_9'6;(p179)
{ CAH_8'54; OCD_h.}
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| 20
| ROM A storm ends a battle between Hannibal and the Romans near Rome.
* Read Polybius' account
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~Polyb_9.7'1-10;*
+Liv_26.11'1-13;
Frontin:Str_3.18'1-2;
Silius_1'134-137,
12'574-13'93,
17'324-327;
Juvenal_7'163-164;
Flor_1.22'44-48;
Appian:Hann_40-43;
[Vict]:VirIll_42'6;
+Eutrop_3.14'1;
+Oros_4.17'4-11;
~Zonar_9'6.(p181)
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| 21
| SIC ++ General remarks on Marcellus' successful campaign in Sicily.
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Liv_27.8'15,
29.1'12-13,*
31.31'9;
Silius_15'356-358.
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| 22
| Marcellus defeats the Carthaginians by the river Himera; the completion of the Roman reconquest of Sicily.
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Polyb_9.22'4;
~Liv_25.40'1-41'7,*
26.41'15;
Appian:Sic_5;(7)
~Zonar_9'6;(p179)
{ CAH_8'61; OCD_m.}
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| 23
| ITA The Romans capture Capua, and punish their opponents in the city.
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Ennius:Ann_289-290;
Vell_1.7'4<q"
Cato:Orig_3'1>;
Cic:LegAgr_1'20,
2'88,
'90;
+Liv_26.12'1-16'13,*
33'4-13,
31.31'14,
39.37'10-12;
ValMax_2.3'3,
3.2e'1,
8'1,
5.2'1;
Silius_13'94-381,
'450-465;
Flor_1.22'41-42;
Appian:Hann_43;
+Hieron:Chron_1805;
~Oros_4.17'12;
~Zonar_9'6;(p181-3)
{ CAH_8'54; OCD_c.}
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| 24
| A Carthaginian fleet joins in the blockade of the Roman garrison at Tarentum.
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~Polyb_9.9'11;
+Liv_26.20'7-11;*
{ CAH_8'54.}
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| 25
| ROM Marcellus celebrates an ovation for his victories in Sicily.
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+Liv_26.21'1-17;*
ValMax_2.8'5;
Plut:Marc_22'1-6,
33'6;
[Vict]:VirIll_45'6;
AmmMarc_28.4'23;
{ OCD_m.}
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| 26
| Q.Fulvius is denied a triumph over the Capuans, because he had suppressed a rebellion without gaining any new territory.
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ValMax_2.8'4.
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| 27
| T.Manlius Torquatus, although enjoying great popular support, stands down from the consular elections because of his failing eyesight.
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+Liv_26.22'1-23'2,*
27.34'10;
ValMax_6.4'1;
~Zonar_9'5.(p179)
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| 28
| ROM ?? Sp.Carvilius, a freedman, opens the first grammar school at Rome.
* Read Plutarch's account
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Plut:Mor_277'D,*
278'E;
{ He was the freedman of Sp.Carvilius, who divorced his wife in 231 B.C.}
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| 29
| ITA >> The young P.Scipio visits the Sibyl at Cumae.
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~Silius_13'382-895.
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| 30
| PEL ?? P.Valerius takes hostages from Epidaurus.
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Frontin:Str_2.11'1;
{ "P.Valerius" is possibly an error for M.Valerius Laevinus, who was consul in 210 B.C.}
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| 31
| ROM >> C.Claudius, a priest of Jupiter, is forced to resign after setting out a victim's entrails incorrectly.
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+Liv_26.23'4-8;*
ValMax_1.1'4;
Plut:Marc_5'5.
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| 32
| >> The praetor C.Calpurnius Piso refuses to allow a son of Terentius to disinherit his father.
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ValMax_7.7'5;
{ For Piso as urban praetor, see eg. Liv.25.41'12-13.}
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