38 B.C. - events and references (original) (raw)
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ROM {17 January} Octavianus marries Livia.
* Read Dio's account
@ #EhrJon:Fast_Jan17; Vell_2.79'2, 94'1; Plin:HN_15'136-137;L Tac:Ann_1'10, 5'1; Suet:Aug_62'2, 69'1, :Tib_4'3, :Claud_1'1; +DioCass_48.44'1-5;* [Vict]:Epit_1'23; { CAH_10'24.}
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A fountain of oil flows from an inn near the river Tiber.
* Read St.Jerome's account
@ +DioCass_48.43'4; !Hieron:Chron_1976;* !Oros_6.18'34, 20'6-7; { From Orosius onwards, this was regarded as an omen foretelling the birth of Christ.}
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{April} The birth of Drusus, the son of Livia.
* Read Suetonius' account
@ Vell_2.95'1; Suet:Claud_1'1;* +DioCass_48.44'4; { OCD_d; three months after the marriage of Livia.}
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MAU Bocchus drives out Bogud, and establishes himself as king of Mauretania.
@ (?)[Liv]:Per_127; +DioCass_48.45'1-3.
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SAR Menas deserts from Sextus Pompeius, and hands over Sardinia to Octavianus.
* Read Appian's account
@ Suet:Aug_74'1; +Appian:BCiv_5'77-78;* +DioCass_48.45'4-9; Oros_6.18'21; { CAH_10'24; OCD_m.}
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PAL Herodes suppresses brigands in Galilee.
@ ~Joseph:BJ_1'309-316, :AJ_14'42-433.
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SYR {9 June} Ventidius defeats and kills Pacorus, the son of the Parthian king, at Gindarus.
* Read Dio's account
@ Strab_16'751;(2.8) Joseph:BJ_1'317; Frontin:Str_1.1'6, 2.2'5; Tac:Hist_5'9; Plut:Ant_34'2-3; Flor_2.19'5-7; #DioCass_49.19'1-21'2;* Just_42.4'7-10; #Festus:Brev_18'2; #Eutrop_7.5'1; Movses_2'20; { OCD_v.}
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ITA Antonius sails to Brundisium, but leaves soon afterwards as Octavianus fails to meet him.
@ +Appian:BCiv_5'78-79; +DioCass_48.46'-2-3; { CAH_10'25.}
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ROM Octavianus prepares to renew the war against Sextus Pompeius.
* Read Appian's account
@ [Liv]:Per_128; +Appian:BCiv_5'80;* Oros_6.18'20.
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GAL << The Gauls in Aquitania start a rebellion, but are defeated by Agrippa.
@ +Appian:BCiv_5'92; DioCass_48.49'3; Eutrop_7.5'1; { CAH_10'25; OCD_agr.}
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ITA Menecrates, the admiral of Sextus Pompeius, defeats Menas near Cumae.
@ +Appian:BCiv_5'81-84; +DioCass_48.46'1-6.
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PER Orodes is overwhelmed by grief, after learning that his son Pacorus has died.
@ Plut:Crass_33'5; Just_42.4'11-13.
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PAL Ventidius sends Machaeras with an army to assist Herodes.
@ Joseph:BJ_1'317-320, :AJ_14'434-438.
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SIC The fleet of Octavianus is destroyed in a storm, after he is defeated by Sextus Pompeius near Messana.
* Read Appian's account
@ [Liv]:Per_128;(?)Plin:HN_7'148; Suet:Aug_16'1-2; +Appian:BCiv_5'84-91;* +DioCass_48.47'1-48'4; Julian:Caes_325'C; Oros_6.18'21-22; { CAH_10'24.}
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ARM Antonius besieges Antiochus of Commagene at Samosata, but eventually agrees to a truce.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Joseph:BJ_1'321-322; :AJ_14'439-447; Plut:Ant_34'4-7;* DioCass_49.22'1-2; Oros_6.18'23; Movses_2'21; { CAH_10'24; OCD_anti.}
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PAL Antigonus defeats and kills Joseph, the brother of Herodes, near Jericho.
@ Joseph:BJ_1'323-327, :AJ_14'448-450.
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ROM {27 November} The triumph of Ventidius: the first triumph won by a Roman general over the Parthians.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ #FastTr_p109; Vell_2.65'3; ValMax_6.9'9; Plin:HN_7'135; Plut:Ant_34'8-9;* (?)Fronto:Ep_2'p136;L (2.9) Gell_15.4'4; DioCass_49.21'1-3; Festus:Brev_18'3; Eutrop_7.5'1; { CAH_10'24; OCD_v.}
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SIC Sextus Pompeius celebrates his victories with a magnificent sacrifice to Neptune at Pelorus.
* Read Dio's account
@ Flor_2.18'3; Appian:BCiv_5'100; +DioCass_48.48'5-49'1;* [Vict]:VirIll_84'2.
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ROM == 67 praetors are appointed during this year.
@ +DioCass_48.43'1-6.
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<< Document: Verg:Ecl_, the Eclogues of Vergilius.
@ [Suet]:Verg_25, 26, 43; { OCD_v; see Tenney Frank, Vergil, p.137.}
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ASI << Document: IAph_8.25 & 8.31-32, letters from Octavianus to the cities of Aphrodisias, Ephesus and Samos.
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<< Document: IAph_8.29 & 8.30, letters from Octavianus to Stephanus, and from Stephanus to Aphrodisias.