125 B.C. - events and references (original) (raw)

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SAR << **C.Gracchus obtains winter provisions for Orestes' army from the allies of Rome.**
@ ~Plut:CGrac_2'2-5; { CAH_9'28<125/4>, '76.}

EGY {27 Mecheir -E = March} Document: PTeb_281, a receipt for a tithe for the temple of Souchus.

SYR << Demetrius is killed at Tyre.
* Read Josephus' account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_60; Joseph:AJ_13'268;* Appian:Syr_68; ~Just_39.1'8; Trog:Prol_39; ~[Euseb]:Chron_257;(↓) { OCD�; Green_541.}

Cleopatra kills her son Seleucus, after he proclaims himself king.
* Read Appian's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_50; Appian:Syr_69;* ~Just_39.1'9; ~[Euseb]:Chron_257;(↓) { Green_716.}

ROM Flaccus proposes a law to extend Roman citizenship to the Italian allies, but he is opposed by the senate.
* Read Appian's account
@ +ValMax_9.5'1; +Appian:BCiv_1'21,* '34; { CAH_8'240-241; DPRR.}

ETR Fregellae revolts from Rome.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_60; Plut:CGrac_3'1;* +Obseq_30; [Vict]:VirIll_65'2; { CAH_8'242; CAH_9'76.}

NAR Massilia appeals for help against the Salluvii, and the senate sends out the consul Flaccus.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_60;* Tac:Hist_4'73; Flor_1.37'3; +Appian:BCiv_1'34; { CAH_9'24; OCD�.}

SYR Cleopatra sets up Antiochus Grypus as king.
* Read Justin's account
@ ~Just_39.1'9;* ~[Euseb]:Chron_257;(↓) { Green_542.}

PAL Alexander Zabinas makes an alliance with Hyrcanus and the Jews.
@ ~Joseph:AJ_13'269.

ETR Fregellae is captured and destroyed by the praetor Opimius.
* Read Ammianus' account
@ [Cic]:RhetHer_4'13, '22, '37; Cic:Planc_70; ~[Liv]:Per_60; Vell_2.6'4; ValMax_2.8'4; Ascon_17;L +Obseq_30; AmmMarc_25.9'10;* { CAH_9'76; OCD�.}

NAR Flaccus defeats the Salluvii.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_60;* +Obseq_30; AmmMarc_15.12'5; { CAH_9'24.}

ROM The census is conducted by the censors Cn. Servilius Caepio and L.Cassius Longinus, who also bring the Aqua Tepula into Rome.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_60;* +Frontin:Aqu_1'8; { CAH_8'505; DPRR.}

L.Cassius punishes M.Aemilius with a heavy fine for building an ostentatious house.
* Read Velleius' account
@ Vell_2.10'1;* ValMax_8.1d'7; { CAH_9'77.}

The senate refuses to grant a triumph to Opimius.
@ ValMax_2.8'4; { OCD�.}

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{November} Timotheus son of Hyspaosines goes to Seleuceia-on-Tigris.
@ AstrDiar_124B.obv'5.

AFR == A plague of locusts causes devastation in Africa and Numidia.
* Read St.Augustine's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_60; +Obseq_30; August:DeCiv_3'31;* (↓) +Oros_5.11'1-5; { CAH_9'28.}

PAL == The birth of Alexander Jannaeus, who is brought up in Galilee.
* Read Josephus' account
@ Joseph:AJ_13'322,* ~'404; { He was 49 years old when he died, in 76 B.C.}

AEG << Document: THI_23'C, an inscription recording the building works of Theophrastus, as superintendent of Delos.

NAR ?? The wealth of Luerius, father of Bituitus, who rides on a chariot scattering gold and silver for his followers to collect.
* Read Athenaeus' account
@ Athen_4.152'd-f<q"* Poseidon_18>;Strab_4'191.(2.3)

AEG ?? Observations and discoveries made by the astronomer Hipparchus.
@ Plin:HN_2'57, '95; { ~ OCD�.}

SIC ++ General comments on Moschus of Syracuse, the second of the bucolic poets.
@ Suda_M'1278; { ~ OCD�.}

ROM ++ M'.Manilius is regularly consulted as an expert on law and other topics.
@ Cic:DeOr_3'133; { Manilius appears in Cicero's "De Republica", which is set in 129 B.C.}

++ General comments on the character of C.Laelius "the Wise".
* Read Anon's account
@ Lucil_200-202; [Cic]:RhetHer_4'19;* Cic:Fin_2'24-25, :Tusc_5'55; Plut:CatMin_7'3; { ~ OCD�.}