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

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ETR The senate garrisons the sea coast between Cumae and Rome with freedmen.
* Read Appian's account
@ ~Appian:BCiv_1'49;* Macrob:Sat_1.11'32.L

An Italian force attempts to encourage revolt in Etruria, but is defeated by Pompeius.
@ +Appian:BCiv_1'50; { CAH_9'124.}

Marius is forced by ill health to give up his command.
@ ~Plut:Mar_33'6; { CAH_9'124.}

C.Titius (? Titinius) leads a mutiny in Cato's army.
@ DioCass_fr.100'1.

Cato is defeated and killed by the Marsi near Lake Fucinus.
* Read Livy's account
@ +[Liv]:Per_75;* Vell_2.16'4; +Appian:BCiv_1'50; Eutrop_5.3'2; +Oros_5.18'24; { CAH_9'124; OCD_poppaedius.}

ITA {29 April -R} Sulla captures and destroys Stabiae.
@ #Plin:HN_3'70; { CAH_9'125.}

ETR Vettius Scato meets and talks informally with Pompeius.
@ +Cic:Phil_12'27.

Pompeius defeats the Marsi.
* Read Livy's account
@ +[Liv]:Per_74;* +Appian:BCiv_1'52; { OCD_vettius.}

Vettius is killed by his slave after being captured by the Romans.
@ Sen:Ben_3.23'5; Macrob:Sat_1.11'24.L

Q.Varius is found guilty under the terms of his own law.
* Read Cicero's account
@ ~Cic:Brut_305;* ValMax_8.6'4; { CAH_9'115; OCD_v.}

ROM The senate suspends trials under the Lex Varia because of the war situation.
@ Ascon_74.L

The Lex Papiria Plautia grants further citizenship rights to the Italians.
* Read Cicero's account
@ [Cic]:RhetHer_3'2; Cic:Arch_7;* Vell_2.17'1; +Schol:Bob_175; { CAH_9'126; OCD_plautius.}

The praetor A.Sempronius Asellio is murdered after attempting to help debtors.
* Read Appian's account
@ +[Liv]:Per_74; ValMax_9.7'4; ~Appian:BCiv_1'54;* ~Oros_5.18'27-29; { CAH_9'787.}

MAC The Thracians, led by their king Sothinus, invade Macedonia, but are forced back by C.Sentius.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Pis_84;* Diod_37.5a'1; +[Liv]:Per_74, 76; ~Oros_5.18'30.

PON << Nicomedes invades Pontus, with the support of the Roman envoys.
* Read Appian's account
@ Sall:Hist_4.67'10; ~Appian:Mith_11-12,* 14, 57; DioCass_fr.99'1; { CAH_9'144; Green_560.}

15b

EXT << Arshak becomes king of the Iberians, after defeating Mirvan in battle.
@ ChronGeorg_4; { Traditional date, according to C.Toumanoff.}

CIS << Sex.Caesar(?) dies at Asculum, and is succeeded in his command by C.Baebius.
@ ~Appian:BCiv_1'48;(↓) { DPRR.}

ITA The Roman admiral Albinus is killed in a mutiny at Pompeii.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ +[Liv]:Per_75; ValMax_9.8'3; Plut:Sull_6'16;* Polyaen_8.9'1; +Oros_5.18'22.

Sulla defeats the Samnites under Cluentius near Nola.
* Read Appian's account
@ Cic:Div_1'72, 2'65; +[Liv]:Per_75; ValMax_1.6'4; Plin:HN_22'12;L Flor_2.6'13; +Appian:BCiv_1'50;* +Oros_5.18'23; { CAH_9'124.}

Sulla subdues the Hirpini.
* Read Appian's account
@ +[Liv]:Per_75; +Appian:BCiv_1'51;* [Vict]:VirIll_75'5.

Sulla invades Samnium and captures Bovianum.
@ +Appian:BCiv_1'51; { CAH_9'1255.}

<< Carbo defeats the Lucanians.
@ Flor_2.6'13.

Cosconius defeats the Samnites under Trebatius near Canusium.
* Read Appian's account
@ ~Diod_37.2'8; +[Liv]:Per_75; +Appian:BCiv_1'52;* { CAH_9'125.}

The Romans capture Herculaneum and besiege Pompeii.
@ Vell_2.16'2; { CAH_9'125.}

{June 11 -R} T.Didius is defeated and killed by the Italians.
@ #Ovid:Fast_6'567-568; { OCD_d.}

The Italian general Marius Egnatius is killed by the Romans.
@ +[Liv]:Per_75.

25a

EGY {Pauni -E = June} Document: AET_6.3'C-D, two demotic marriage contracts.

ETR Pompeius defeats a large force of Italians near Asculum, after which Vidacilius commits suicide.
* Read Appian's account
@ Vell_2.21'1; ~Appian:BCiv_1'48;* ~Oros_5.18'21; { CAH_9'125.}

26a

EGY {25 Payni -E = July} Document: OGIS_188 & 189, an obeisance to Isis performed by Tryphon at Philae.

ASI Mithridates sends Pelopidas to complain to the Roman envoys in Asia about Nicomedes' aggression.
* Read Appian's account
@ Sall:Hist_4.67'10; ~Appian:Mith_12-14;* { CAH_9'144; Green_560.}

PAL Demetrius Akairos defeats Alexander near Shechem.
* Read Josephus' account
@ (?)Qumran_4Q169'1;(Nahum,2.11) Joseph:BJ_1'92-95,* ~:AJ_13'376-378; { Shortly before Demetrius was defeated by Philippus.}

ITA Some slaves rescue their mistress after Grumentum is captured.
@ Sen:Ben_3.23'2-4; Macrob:Sat_1.11'23;L { Grumentum may have been captured by the Roman army which Gabinius led into Lucania.}

A.Gabinius is defeated and killed in Lucania.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_76;* +Oros_5.18'25.

ETR Sulpicius subdues the Marrucini.
* Read Livy's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_76;* +Oros_5.18'25; { CAH_9'124.}

The Romans besiege Pinna, a city of the Vestini.
@ ValMax_5.4e'7.

The Vestini surrender to Pompeius.
* Read Livy's account
@ +[Liv]:Per_75,* 76; +Appian:BCiv_1'52; +Oros_5.18'25; { CAH_9'124.}

The Paeligni surrender to Pompeius.
@ ~[Liv]:Per_76.

CAP Mithridates expels Ariobarzanes from Cappadocia.
* Read Appian's account
@ ~[Liv]:Per_76; Appian:Syr_48, :Mith_10,* 15, 57;(↓) Festus:Brev_11'3; { CAH_9'144; OCD_a.}

ROM Sulla returns to Rome to stand as a candidate for consul.
* Read Diodorus' account
@ ~Diod_37.25'1;* +[Liv]:Per_75; Vell_2.17'3; +Appian:BCiv_1'51;(↓) { CAH_9'125; OCD_s.}

CIS Pompeius grants Latin status to the Transpadanes.
@ Ascon_3;L Plin:HN_3'138; { CAH_9'126.}

ETR Document: CIL_1.848-861 & 1.875-877, sling shots from Asculum.

ETR Pompeius captures and sacks Asculum.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Cic:Clu_21; ~[Liv]:Per_76, 85; Vell_2.21'1;(?)Tac:Ann_13'6; Plut:Pomp_4'2-3;* Flor_2.6'14; Gell_15.4'3; ~Oros_5.18'18-20, '26; { CAH_9'125; OCD_p.}

ROM C.Caesar attempts to stand as a candidate in the consular elections, but is stopped by Sulpicius.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:HarResp_43,* :Brut_226; Ascon_25;L Quint_6.3'75; { CAH_9'166; OCD_c.}

PON Mithridates and the Romans make preparations for a new war.
* Read Appian's account
@ ~Appian:Mith_17;* ~Just_38.3'5-7.

ETR {17 Nov. -R} Document: CIL_1.709, in which Pompeius grants Roman citizenship to a squadron of Spanish horsemen.{ CAH_9'126.}

Pompeius grants Roman citizenship to P.Caesius of Ravenna.
@ Cic:Balb_50.

ROM Q.Metellus, as praetor, enrols the poet Archias as a Roman citizen.
@ Cic:Arch_7-8; { DPRR.}

The Lex Plautia alters the composition of juries.
@ +Ascon_79;L { CAH_9'114-115; OCD_p.}

Papirius Carbo passes a law which sets the weight of an as at half an ounce.
@ Plin:HN_33'46; { DPRR.}

<< C.Vettienus is punished for trying to avoid serving in the Roman army.
@ ValMax_6.3'3.

The censors P.Crassus and L.Caesar impose curbs on luxury goods such as scent and wine.
@ ~Plin:HN_13'24,L 14'95;L { CAH_9'787; OCD_crassus.}

{25 December -R} The triumph of Pompeius Strabo, over the Picentes of Asculum.
* Read Dio's account
@ #FastTr_p107; Vell_2.65'3; ValMax_6.9'9; Ascon_14;L Plin:HN_7'135; Gell_15.4'3; DioCass_43.51'4-5,* 49.21'3; { CAH_9'126; OCD_p.}

ASI ?? Document: Sherk_58B (OGIS_438), an inscription in honour of Herostratus.

50a

MOE << Document: SEG_47.1125, a decree of Histria in honour of a general of Mithridates.

50b

ASI << Document: THI_175.C, a decree of Priene honouring an envoy in disputes with Miletus and the publicani.

ITA << Volcanic fires appear for several days on the islands of Lipara and Hiera.
@ Plin:HN_2'238.

ITA == Document: ARS_63 (CIL_1.590), a new constitution granted to Tarentum.

ROM == The censors do not carry out a census of Roman citizens.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Arch_11;* +FastCap_p74.

++ The childhood of T.Pomponius Atticus.
@ Nepos:Att_1'1-4.

CIS == The floruit of the dramatist L.Pomponius of Bononia.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1928.