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| 1 | EGY {Hathyr -E = January} Document: AET_8.8, a decree of the priests of Sais, mentioning a statue of Arsinoē. |
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| 1a | {Choiak -E = Jan./Feb.} Document: THI_248, the epitaph of a Sabaean merchant in Egypt. { The date is not certain - it may belong to the reign of a later king Ptolemy.} |
| 1b | {14 Xandicus -M = Mecheir -E = April} Document: BD_107, a contract for two men acting as sureties for Timocles. |
| 2 | {5 Daisius -M = June} Document: Austin_296,B a decree ordering the registration of land to assess the quota due to the cult of Arsinoe. |
| 3 | PEL ?? Cleinias builds a gymnasium at Sicyon.
@ Paus_2.10'7. |
| 4 | << Abantidas murders Cleinias and makes himself tyrant of Sicyon.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Plut:Arat_2'2-3'1;* Paus_2.8'2; { CAH_7.1'243.} |
| 5 | CYR ?? Magas seizes Philemon but lets him go unharmed, after being attacked in one of his plays.
@ Plut:Mor_449'E-F, 458'A. |
| 5a | GRE ?? A remark of Philemon, after being acquitted in a court case.
@ Teles_25. |
| 6 | ?? The death of the comic poet Philemon.
* Read Apuleius' account @ ~Diod_23.6'1; ValMax_9.12e'6; Plut:Mor_785'B; Lucian:Macr_25; Apul:Flor_16;* Suda_Ph'328<q" Aelian:Fr_11>; { OCD³.} |
| 6a | ?? Document: Syll_483 & 484, a decree of the Aetolians, forbidding the extradition from their cities of men convicted by the hieromnemones. { Scholten_p67.} |
| 7 | AEG << Document: MarmPar_, the "Marmor Parium", an inscription listing the dates of important events. { OCD³; Green_695.} |
| 8 | SIC The new consuls arrive in Sicily: 67 cities revolt from the Carthaginians.
* Read Polybius' account @ Naev:Pun_29-30; +Polyb_1.16'1-3;* ~Diod_23.4'1; +Eutrop_2.19'1; +Zonar_8'9;(p401) { CAH_7.2'546.} |
| 9 | Hieron of Syracuse changes sides and becomes an ally of the Romans.
* Read Polybius' account @ +Polyb_1.16'4-17'1;* ~Diod_23.4'1; Liv_24.4'5, 25.31'4; [Liv]:Per_16; Paus_6.12'3; [Vict]:VirIll_37'5; Eutrop_2.19'2; +Hieron:Chron_1754; Oros_4.7'3; +Zonar_8'9;(p401) { CAH_7.2'546; OCD³.} |
| 10 | ROM Claudius celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Carthaginians.
@ Eutrop_2.18'2;* { this is very dubious - it does not appear in the Fasti Triumphales.} |
| 11 | SIC The Romans fail to capture Macella and Hadranum.
@ ~Diod_23.4'2. |
| 12 | Crassus punishes some troops who had been defeated by Hannibal.
@ Frontin:Str_4.1'19. |
| 13 | The Carthaginians raise fresh forces, and concentrate them at Agrigentum.
@ +Polyb_1.17'1-6. |
| 14 | ROM Valerius adopts the cognomen of Messalla, in recognition of the help he gave to the inhabitants of Messana.
* Read Fasti's account @ +FastCap_p54;* Sen:Dial_10.13'5; Macrob:Sat_1.6'26;L { OCD³.} |
| 14a | GRE Document: Syll_488, a decree of the Amphictyons in honour of Aristarchus of Camarina. |
| 14b | EGY << Document: AET_8.21, a report on migrants in the Faiyum district. |
| 15 | {2 Dius -M = Nov./Dec.} Document: Austin_296'37,B a decree ordering payment of the quota due to the cult of Arsinoe. |
| 16 | ITA >> The Romans found a colony at Aesernia.
@ ~[Liv]:Per_16; { CAH_7.2'381; OCD³.} |
| 17 | ROM >> Cn.Fulvius Centumalus is appointed dictator, to perform the ceremony of "driving the nail".
@ +FastCap_p54. |
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