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

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ROM {1 January -R} Document: Cic:Att_1.12, a letter from Cicero to Atticus.

{January -R} Pompeius receives an enthusiastic welcome on his return to Rome.
* Read Appian's account
@ Cic:Phil_2'12; Plut:Pomp_43'4-5, :Mor_737'B;(Q9.1) Appian:Mith_116;* { CAH_9'361.}

{25 January - R} Document: Cic:Att_1.13, a letter from Cicero to Atticus.

{13 February - R} Document: Cic:Att_1.14, a letter from Cicero to Atticus, referring to pronouncements of Pompeius in an assembly and in the senate.{ CAH_9'362.}

The senate appoints Marcius Philippus to be governor of Syria.
@ Appian:Syr_51; { OCD_p; DPRR.}

{15 March - R} Document: Cic:Att_1.15, a letter from Cicero to Atticus, announcing that Q.Cicero has been appointed to be governor of Asia.

Cato refuses a marriage alliance with Pompeius.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Plut:CatMin_30'3-6,* :Pomp_44'2-3; { CAH_9'362.}

EPI Atticus declines an offer to go out to Asia with Q.Cicero.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Att_1.16'14;* Nepos:Att_6'4.

ROM {May -R} Clodius is brought to trial for sacrilege, but is acquitted, allegedly after bribing the jury.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Att_1.16'2-5,* '9-10, :HarResp_37, :Mil_13; ValMax_4.2'5, 8.5'5, 9.1'7; Sen:Ep_97'1-9; Plut:Cic_29'1-7, :Caes_10'6-11, :Mor_206'A; Suet:Caes_74'2; Appian:BCiv_2'14; +DioCass_37.46'1-3, 39.6'2; Schol:Bob_85, 90-91; { CAH_9'363; OCD_c.}

{15 May -R} Cicero and Clodius argue in the senate; Cicero composes a speech against Clodius and Curio.
@ Cic:Att_1.16'9-10; Schol:Bob_85-91, 148;L

Caesar leaves for his province in Spain; Crassus protects him from his creditors.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Plut:Caes_11'1-4,* :Crass_7'6, :Mor_206'B; Suet:Caes_18'1, 71'1; Appian:BCiv_2'8; { OCD_c.}

NAR Manlius Lentinus captures Valentia.
@ +DioCass_37.47'1-48'1.

ROM {June/July -R} Document: Cic:Att_1.16, a letter from Cicero to Atticus.

ASI << Flaccus levies crews to man a fleet in Asia.
@ Cic:Flac_30-33; Schol:Bob_100.L

<< Flaccus prevents the Jews in Asia from sending money to Jerusalem.
@ Cic:Flac_66-69.

<< Other complaints made against Flaccus concerning his actions as governor of Asia.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Flac_34-45,* 70-93; { OCD_f.}

ROM {27 July -R} Pompeius supports Afranius and Metellus in the election of consuls for the following year.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ #Cic:Att_1.16'12; Plut:CatMin_30'7-10, :Pomp_44'4-6,* :Mor_806'A-B; +DioCass_37.49'1; { CAH_9'364.}

THR << **C.Antonius, as governor of Macedonia, fights unsuccessfully against the Dardani and Thracians.**
* Read Dio's account
@ Syll_762'16-22<t=B _Sherk__78>;[Liv]:Per_103; DioCass_38.10'1-3,* 51.26'5; Obseq_61a; { DPRR.}

MAC << Plancius and Sestius serve under Antonius in Macedonia.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Sest_13,* :Planc_28, 61; { OCD_s.}

19a

CYR << Document: SEG_28.1540, a decree of the city of Berenice in Libya.

GAL The German king Ariovistus defeats the Gauls at Magetobriga.
@ Caes:BGall_1.31'12; { CAH_9'383.}

NAR C.Pomptinus defeats Catugnatus, the leader of the Allobroges, and captures Solonium.
* Read Dio's account
@ Cic:ProvCon_32; Caes:BGall_1.6'2, 44'9; [Liv]:Per_102; +DioCass_37.48'2-3.*

ROM {19 September -R} Domitius Ahenobarbus as aedile displays a hundred bears in the circus.
@ #Plin:HN_8'131; { DPRR.}

A lunch break is introduced for the audience during gladiatorial contents.
@ +DioCass_37.46'4.

{28 September -R} Pompeius celebrates a triumph over the pirates and Mithridates.
* Read Appian's account
@ Cic:Off_1'78; +FastTr_p108; Diod_40.4'1; Strab_12'557;(3.31) Vell_2.40'3; ValMax_8.15'8; Lucan_3'165-166; #Plin:HN_7'97-98, 12'111,L 33'151, #37'11-18; Plut:Pomp_45'1-46'2; Appian:Mith_116-117;* +DioCass_37.21'1-2, 42.5'5-6; +Hieron:Chron_1956; { CAH_9'364.}

ITA ?? The setting of the second book of Cicero's Academica, a conversation in Hortensius' villa at Bauli.
@ Cic:Acad_2'9-148; { Catulus is one of the speakers in this book.}

25a

ROM << Catulus has a dream about the future greatness of the young Octavianus.
* Read Appian's account
@ Suet:Aug_94'8; DioCass_45.2'3-4.*

++ Praise of the honourable character of Catulus.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Dom_113,* :Sest_101, 122, :Off_1'76, '109, '133; ValMax_6.9'5; Plut:Gal_3'1.

The death of Q.Catulus.
* Read Dio's account
@ Cic:Att_1.20'3; Vell_2.48'6; +DioCass_37.46'3;* { ~CAH_9'363; ~OCD_c.}

{1 December -R} Cicero speaks in the senate on behalf of the tax collectors in Asia.
@ Cic:Att_1.17'9, :Off_3'88; { CAH_9'365.}

Metellus Celer prevents the re-introduction of the Ludi Compitalicii.
@ Ascon_7;L (↓) { When Metellus was consul designate.}

{5 December -R} Document: Cic:Att_1.17, a letter from Cicero to Atticus, discussing ill feeling between Atticus and Q.Cicero.

GER == Orgetorix persuades the Helvetii to invade the neighbouring parts of Gaul.
* Read Caesar's account
@ +Caes:BGall_1.2'1-4'4;* Oros_6.7'3-4.

GAL == Diviciacus goes to Rome to appeal for help; the senate confirms an alliance with the Aedui.
* Read Caesar's account
@ +Caes:BGall_1.35'4,* 6.12'5.

AFR << M.Caelius accompanies Q.Pompeius, the governor of Africa.
@ Cic:Cael_73; { DPRR.}

ROM == The censors increase the number of senators.
@ +DioCass_37.46'4; { CAH_9'364.}

== The humane behaviour of C.Octavius as praetor.
@ Cic:QFr_1.1'21;(7) Suet:Aug_3'2.

== The end of the list of consuls in the chronicle of Castor.
@ +[Euseb]:Chron_265, 295;(↓) { OCD_c.}

AEG ++ A summary of the life and writings of Castor of Rhodes.
@ Suda_K'402, K'469.