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

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ETR {3 January -R} The birth of M.Tullius Cicero.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Leg_2'3,L :Brut_161, 239-240,* #:Att_13.42'3; [Liv]:Per_120; Seneca:Suas_6'22-23, 7'9; #Plut:Cic_2'1, 48'4; GranLic_14; #Gell_15.28'3; Hieron:Chron_1912, 1975; { OCD_c.}

ROM Caepio passes a law to share the membership of juries between senators and equites.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Clu_140,* :DeOr_1'225, 2'199, ~:Brut_161, 164; +Obseq_41; +Cassiod:Chr_648; { CAH_9'93; OCD_c.}

EGY {21 Pharmuthi -E = May} Document: BD_140, recording the sale of priestly rights belonging to Picus.

EGY << Metellus is accused of extortion, but is acquitted.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Att_1.16'4,* :Balb_11; ValMax_2.10'1.

NUM << Marius captures a fort near the river Muluccha.
@ ~Sall:Jug_92'1-94'7; Mela_1'29; Frontin:Str_3.9'3; Flor_1.36'14.

AEG << The colossus at Rhodes is toppled by an earthquake.
@ +Hieron:Chron_1910.

SYR << A plot against Ptolemy Lathyrus is uncovered at Seleuceia.
@ ~Diod_34.39a'1; { ~Hölbl_p208.}

ROM The triumph of Metellus Numidicus.
* Read Fasti's account
@ +FastTr_p107;* CIL_6.40942; Vell_2.11'2; [Vict]:VirIll_62'1; Schol:Bob_176;L { CAH_9'785; OCD_m.}

{1 August -R} The triumph of Minucius, over the Scordisci and Thracians.
@ #FastTr_p107; { CAH_9'785; OCD_m.}

EGY {14 Mesore -E = August} Document: SelPap_1.67, recording a loan of money to Eunous and Patseous.

NUM << The quaestor L.Sulla arrives at Marius' camp with reinforcements from Italy.
@ ~Sall:Jug_95'1-96'4; ValMax_6.9'6, 9.2'1; { OCD_s; DPRR.}

NAR Caepio recaptures Tolosa and removes its sacred treasures.
* Read Strabo's account
@ Strab_4'188;* (1.13) +Gell_3.9'7; DioCass_fr.90'1; Just_32.3'10-11; ~Oros_5.15'25; { CAH_9'785.}

NUM Marius defeats the joint forces of Jugurtha and Bocchus.
@ ~Sall:Jug_97'1-99'3; Diod_36.1'1; ~[Liv]:Per_66; Frontin:Str_2.1'3; Flor_1.36'15; Eutrop_4.27'2; Oros_5.15'9-17.

ROM {29 September -R} The birth of Cn.Pompeius Magnus.
* Read Velleius' account
@ Cic:Brut_239; Vell_2.53'3-4;* ValMax_5.2'9; #Plin:HN_37'13; Plut:Pomp_79'5, :Mor_717'C;(Q8.1) Appian:BCiv_1'121; GranLic_13; Hieron:Chron_1912; { OCD_p.}

NUM Marius defeats Jugurtha and Bocchus in a second battle near Cirta, while on his way to winter quarters.
@ +Sall:Jug_100'1-102'1; Frontin:Str_2.4'10; Oros_5.15'18.

Marius sends Sulla and A.Manlius on a mission to Bocchus.
@ ~Sall:Jug_102'1-15; Appian:Num_4.

ROM Cn.Mallius is elected consul, in preference to Q.Catulus.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Mur_36,* :Planc_12.

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EGY {15 Phaophi -E = November} Document: AET_7.24, recording the purchase of a cow by Dionysius son of Cephalas.

ITA Document: CIL_1.677 & 1.678, recording the dedication of walls at Capua, to Ceres and to Castor and Pollux.

ETR ++ The youth and family background of Q.Sertorius.
@ Plut:Sert_2'1-2.

GRE ?? Document: CIL_1.693, a dedication by Q.Minucius Rufus to Apollo at Delphi.

AS1 ?? The birth of Apollodorus of Pergamon, a rhetorician who became one of the teachers of Octavianus.
@ ~Lucian:Macr_23; { Apollodorus, who lived for 82 years, is described as old in 44 B.C.}