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

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1

ROM Twelve Latin colonies refuse to provide contingents for the Roman army.
* Read Livy's account
@ +Liv_27.7'7-11'6,* 37'5, 29.15'2; ValMax_6.9'3; { CAH_8'75, '202.}

2

The censors M.Cornelius Cethegus and P.Sempronius Tuditanus revise the lists of senators and equites.
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@ +Liv_27.11'7-16,* 29.37'1; +FastCap_p62.

3

SPA Scipio captures Carthago Nova.
* Read Polybius' account
@ ~Polyb_10.6'1-20'5;* (?)Diod_26.21'1; ~Liv_26.41'1-51'14; ValMax_4.3'1; Frontin:Str_2.11'5, 3.9'1; Silius_15'180-285, '400-409; Plut:Mor_196'B; Appian:Hisp_19-23; Polyaen_8.16'6; Gell_7.8'3, '6; DioCass_fr.57'42=43; [Vict]:VirIll_49'7-8; ~Eutrop_3.15'2-3; ~Oros_4.18'1; +Zonar_9'8;(p197) { CAH_8'59; OCD�.}

3a

ASI {Artemisius -M} Document: SEG_54.1353, a letter from Aeneas, concerning the appointment of Nicanor as high priest.

3b

GRE ?? Document: Syll_547, a decree of the Athenians at Eleusis in honour of the general Demaenetus.

4

PEL {? July} Philippus visits Argos and attends the Nemean Games.
* Read Polybius' account
@ ~Polyb_10.25'1-26'10;* ~Liv_27.29'9-31'8; Appian:Mac_3;(↓↓) ~Zonar_9'9;(p207) { See Lazenby, pp.163-164.}

5

ROM News of the capture of Carthago Nova reaches Rome.
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@ ~Polyb_10.19'7-9; +Liv_27.7'1-6;* Appian:Hisp_23;(↓) ~Eutrop_3.15'3; Oros_4.18'1.

6

ITA Indecisive fighting between Hannibal and Marcellus near Canusium.
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@ +Liv_27.12'1-15'3;* Plut:Marc_25'3-26'8; ~Oros_4.18'4; { CAH_8'55.}

7

PEL Philopoemen reorganizes the Achaean cavalry.
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@ ~Polyb_10.21'1-24'7;* Plut:Phil_7'3-9; Paus_8.49'7; Suda_Ph'409; { R.M.Errington, Philopoemen, pp.49-54.}

8

PER Antiochus forces the Parthian king into submission.
* Read Polybius' account
@ ~Polyb_10.27'1-31'13;* Just_41.5'7; { Green_295.}

9

PEL Philippus invades Elis.
@ ~Liv_27.31'9-32'9; { See Lazenby, p.164.}

10

ITA Fabius captures Tarentum.
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@ Polyb_10.1'1-10; Cic:DeOr_2'273, :Brut_72, :Sen_10-11, 41; +Liv_27.15'4-16'16;* Strab_6'278;(3.1) Plin:HN_34'40; Silius_15'320-333; Plut:CatMai_2'3-6, :Fab_19'5-23'1, :Mor_195'F; Appian:Hann_49; Polyaen_8.14'3; +Eutrop_3.16'1; August:DeCiv_1'6;(↓) +Oros_4.18'5; +Zonar_9'8;(p197) { CAH_8'55; OCD�.}

11

MAC Philippus is forced to return to Macedonia after receiving news of an invasion by the Dardani.
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@ ~Liv_27.32'9-33'5;* Silius_15'312-314; Just_29.4'6-10; ~Zonar_9'9;(p207) { Green_704=208; but see Lazenby, p.164.}

12

SYR << Antiochus III establishes his son Antiochus as joint king.
@ +BabylChron_BM.35603'R4-5.

13

ROM The tribune C.Publicius Bibulus attacks Marcellus' handling of the war, but Marcellus is elected consul for the coming year.
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@ +Liv_27.20'9-21'8,* 25'10; Plut:Marc_27'1-7.

14

SPA >> Indibilis, Mandonius, and other Spanish leaders leave the Carthaginian army and go over to Scipio.
* Read Polybius' account
@ ~Polyb_10.34'1-38'6;* ~Liv_27.27'1-17; DioCass_fr.57'42-43; ~Eutrop_3.15'3; ~Zonar_9'8;(p199) { CAH_8'59.}

15

CRE ?? Document: PHRC_15, a dedication by Lucius, the Roman commander of an Egyptian garrison.

16

ASI ?? Document: PHRC_1, a dedication to Ptolemy IV, Arsinoe III, Sarapis and Isis at Ephesus.