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

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ROM The Sicilians appeal to Cicero to take on the accusation of Verres at Rome.
@ Cic:Verr_2.2'10.

{January -R} Cicero overcomes a challenge from Q.Caecilius, to be appointed the official prosecutor of Verres.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:DivCaec_1-73;* Quint_7.2'2; Plut:Cic_7'5.

Verres arranges for a rival prosecutor (? Dasianus) to collect evidence against a former governor of Achaea.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Verr_1'6;* Sall:Hist_4'55.L

EGY {1 Mecheir -E = February} The final dedication of the temple of Horus at Edfu.
@ AET_8.13.I; { Hölbl_p275.}

PON << Lucullus sends Ap.Claudius as an envoy to Tigranes to demand the surrender of Mithridates.
* Read Memnon's account
@ Memn_31'2;* ~Plut:Luc_19'1; { CAH_9'238-239; McGushin_2'167.}

<< Lucullus captures Amisus after prolonged resistance led by Callimachus, but fails to stop his soldiers from looting the town.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Cic:LegMan_21; Sall:Hist_4'46-48;L Memn_30'4; ~Plut:Luc_19'1-9,* 32'5-6, 33'3; ~Appian:Mith_83; Eutrop_6.8'2; { CAH_9'238; OCD_a.}

ROM Popular pressure forces Pompeius and Crassus to stage a public reconciliation.
@ +Appian:BCiv_1'121; { OCD_c.}

PON << Triarius arrives unexpectedly off the coast of Pontus, and defeats the navy of Heracleia.
@ Memn_34'1-7.

<< Cotta and Triarius capture Heracleia, after it is abandoned by Connacorex.
* Read Memnon's account
@ Sall:Hist_4'50-51; Memn_34'8-36'2;* ~Appian:Mith_82; { The siege lasted for two years.}

SIC L.Metellus attacks Pyrganion and other pirates, and forces them to retreat from the coast of Sicily.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_98;* ~Oros_6.3'5; { DPRR.}

AS1 Lucullus reorganises the province of Asia, and takes vigorous measures to reduce debt and restore prosperity.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Cic:Acad_2'3; ~Plut:Luc_20'1-6,* 23'1; ~Appian:Mith_83;(↓) { CAH_9'239, '247.}

The cities of Asia establish festivals in honour of Lucullus.
@ ~Plut:Luc_23'1-2.

The poet Archias accompanies Lucullus in Asia.
@ ~Cic:Arch_11.

SYR Ap.Claudius is deliberately delayed by his guides, but leaves them behind and makes his own way to Antioch.
@ Plut:Luc_21'1.

PAL ?? The Pharisees gain great influence during the reign of Alexandra, despite the opposition of her son Aristobulus.
* Read Josephus' account
@ Joseph:BJ_1'110-115,* ~:AJ_13'408-418.

PHO Tigranes captures Ptolemais, but is soon afterwards recalled home by news of the Roman advance towards his kingdom.
* Read Josephus' account
@ Joseph:BJ_1'116, :AJ_13'419-421;* ~Plut:Luc_21'2; Movses_2'14.

SYR Ap.Claudius meets Tigranes, and bluntly warns him of the consequences if Mithridates is not handed over.
* Read Memnon's account
@ Sall:Hist_4'58;L Memn_31'2-3;* Plut:Luc_21'6-8; { CAH_9'791.}

ROM Lentulus and Gellius are elected as the first censors since Sulla's reforms, and Pompeius, though consul, comes with his horse to be examined by them.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Cic:Verr_1'54; ValMax_5.9'1; +Plut:Pomp_22'4-9,* :Mor_203'F-204'A; { 9'225; OCD_g.}

PON Lucullus captures Sinope.
* Read Memnon's account
@ Cic:LegMan_21; Diod_14.31'2; Strab_12'546;(3.11) Memn_37'1-8;* ~Plut:Luc_23'2-6, 46'1; ~Appian:Mith_83; Eutrop_6.8'2; ~Oros_6.3'2-3; { The events in Pontus are shown here in approximately the same order as they appear in Memnon's account; see McGushin_2'167-168.}

Lucullus captures Amaseia; the death of Diodorus the general of Mithridates.
* Read Strabo's account
@ Strab_13'614;* (1.66) ~Memn_37'9.

Mithridates has Metrodorus and Amphicrates killed, after hearing that they had been disloyal.
* Read Strabo's account
@ Strab_13'609-610;* (1.55) ~Plut:Luc_22'2-7.

ROM Pompeius and Crassus are again reconciled, after constant disagreements throughout their consulship, and Pompeius retires to private life for a while.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Sall:Hist_4'56;L Plut:Pomp_22'3, +23'1-6, :Crass_12'2-4;* Suet:Caes_19'2; { CAH_9'228.}

The Lex Plotia authorises the return from exile of L.Cinna and other supporters of Lepidus.
* Read Suetonius' account
@ Sall:Hist_4'52;L ~Suet:Caes_5'1;* { CAH_9'227; OCD_lex.}

?? Another Lex Plotia is an agrarian law.
@ Cic:Att_1.18'6; { CAH_9'227.}

The Lex Pompeia defines the crime of parricide.
@ Justin:Dig_48.1'1<q"Macer>;Justin:Dig_48.2.12'4<q"Venuleius>;Justin:Dig_48.9'1-10; { OCD_parricide.}

(?) Maecilia begins a long career of adultery.
@ +Catull_113'1-2.

++ The grammarian Cornelius Epicadius is a freedman of Sulla, and a favourite of his son Faustus.
@ Suet:Gram_12;