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| 1 | ROM {13 January -R} Carvilius celebrates a triumph over the Samnites, and dedicates a colossal statue of Jupiter.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_10.46'13-15;* #FastTr_p97; Plin:HN_34'43. |
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| 2 | {13 February -R} The triumph of Papirius, over the Samnites.
* Read Livy's account @ +Liv_10.46'1-9;* #FastTr_p97; Zonar_8'1.(p281) |
| 3 | {17 February -R} Papirius dedicates a temple to Quirinus, where he erects the first sundial in Rome.
* Read Livy's account @ #CIL_add.7'Feb17, 8'Feb17; +Liv_10.46'7;* Ovid:Fast_6'795-796; Plin:HN_7'213-214; { CAH_7.2'408.} |
| 3a | {Munychion -G = May} Document: Syll_316, the beginning of an Athenian decree. |
| 4 | THR << The marriage of Agathocles the son of Lysimachus to Lysandra the daughter of Ptolemy.
@ Paus_1.9'6; { ~CAH_7.1'103; Errington_p60?287; Lysandra was previously married to Alexander, the son of Cassander.} |
| 5 | SIC ++ The comic poet Apollodorus of Gela is a contemporary of Menander.
@ Suda_A'3405. |
| 6 | GRE ?? Menander refuses invitations to travel to the courts of Macedonia and Egypt.
@ Plin:HN_7'111. |
| 7 | ?? Lynceus, the brother of the historian Duris, wins against Menander in a competition for comic poets.
@ Suda_L'776. |
| 8 | ?? Sayings of Menander, addressed to Glycera, Philemon, and others.
* Read Athenaeus' account @ Plut:Mor_347'E-F; Alciphr_2'3-4, 4'2; Gell_17.4'1-2; Athen_13.585'c.* |
| 9 | ++ General comments on the character and writings of Menander.
@ Gell_17.4'4-6<q" Apollod:Fr_43>; ProlegCom_3; Suda_M'589. |
| 10 | << The death of Menander the comic poet.
* Read Ovid's account @ Ovid:Ib_591;* IG_14.1184; Plut:Mor_853'F; Gell_17.4'5<q" Apollod:Fr_43>, ~21'42; ChronPasc_424'B; +Hieron:Chron_1725; ProlegCom_3; Suda_P'2111; { CAH_7.1'497; OCD³.} |
| 11 | AEG << The Colossus of Rhodes is completed, after 12 years.
@ ~Plin:HN_34'41. |
| 12 | GRE Omens at Athens, which are said to presage the return of exiles.
@ DionHal:Din_3<q" Philoch_67>. |
| 13 | ROM ?? Fabius Gurges gains a reputation for gluttony.
@ Macrob:Sat_3.13'6.L |
| 14 | Fabius Gurges is defeated by the Samnites, but his father defends him against his critics.
* Read Zonaras' account @ ~[Liv]:Per_11; ValMax_2.2'4, 5.7'1; Polyaen_8.15'1; DioCass_fr.36'30; SHA:Heliog_26'2; Eutrop_2.9'2; +Oros_3.22'6-7; Suda_Ph'3; +Zonar_8'1;* (p283) { CAH_7.2'665.} |
| 15 | MOE << Lysimachus and his son Agathocles are defeated and captured by the Thracian king Dromichaetes, but they are later released.
* Read Diodorus' account @ ~Diod_21.11'1-6;* Strab_7'302,(3.8) '305;(3.14) Memn_5'1; ~Plut:Demetr_39'6, 52'6, :Mor_126'E, 183'E, 555'D-E;(11) Paus_1.9'6; Polyaen_3.15'1, 7.25'1; Just_16.1'19; { CAH_7.1'105; OCD³.} |
| 16 | ITA Fabius defeats the Samnites in a second battle, with the help of his father.
* Read Zonaras' account @ ~[Liv]:Per_11; Plut:Fab_24'3; DioCass_fr.36'31; Eutrop_2.9'2; +Oros_3.22'8-10; Suda_Ph'3; +Zonar_8'1.* (p285) |
| 17 | ++ C.Pontius is a great leader of the Samnites in their wars against Rome.
@ Cic:Off_2'75. |
| 18 | ROM {? 1 August -R} The triumph of Fabius over the Samnites, after which C.Pontius is executed.
* Read Plutarch's account @ #FastTr_p97; ~[Liv]:Per_11; ValMax_5.7'1; Plut:Fab_24'3;* { OCD³.} |
| 19 | GRE Deinarchus and other exiles are allowed to return to Athens.
* Read Plutarch's account @ Dinarch:Fr_14'1; Philoch_167; DionHal:Din_2, 3, 9; ~Plut:Mor_850'D;* { OCD³; Green_126.} |
| 20 | EPI == For political reasons, Pyrrhus marries two more wives, the daughter of Audoleon and Bircenna the daughter of Bardyllis.
@ Plut:Pyrrh_9'1; { CAH_7.2'461.} |
| 21 | AFR ?? Synhalus, the "son" of Ammon, becomes famous as an expert on medicine.
@ Silius_5'357-361. |
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