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

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1

EGY {23 Phamenoth -E = April} Document: PTeb_7, a decree about law suits brought against subordinates of the finance administration.

2

{3 Pachon -E = May} Document: SelPap_2.378, a receipt for sales tax paid by Senpoeris.

3

{19 Pachon -E = June} Document: PTeb_19, a letter from Polemon to Menches.

4

{? Pachon -E = June} Document: PTeb_44, a petition to Menches from Haryotes.

5

{11 Payni -E = June} Document: PTeb_17, another letter from Polemon to Menches.

6

MOE The consul Cato is defeated by the Scordisci.
* Read Florus' account
@ Diod_34.30a'1-30c'1; +[Liv]:Per_63; Flor_1.39'1-4;* DioCass_fr.88'1; +Eutrop_4.24'1; AmmMarc_27.4'4; { CAH_9'32.}

6a

CAP << Nicomedes invades Cappadocia, and forces Laodice, the sister of Mithridates, to become his wife.
@ Just_38.1'1-5; { This must have happened soon after the death of Ariarathes VI, and not as Justinus says, shortly before the death of Ariarathes VII.}

6b

PEL << Document: IG_4.558, a decree of the Dionysiac artists at Argos.

6c

AEG << Document: Syll_1133, a dedication to Isis Tychē at Delos.

7

EGY {12 Epeiph -E = July} Document: PTeb_57, a letter from Petenephies.

8

{Epeiph -E = July} Document: PTeb_13, a letter from Menches to Ptolemaeus (? the strategus).

9

BAE Marius as propraetor curbs banditry in Further Spain.
@ ~Plut:Mar_6'1; { ~OCD_m; Green_718.}

10

EGY {2 Mesore -E = August} Document: PTeb_15, two letters from Menches to Horus.

11

Document: PTeb_16, another letter from Menches to Horus.

12

MOE The Scordisci defeat and kill Lucullus, the commander of the garrison at Heracleia.
@ Frontin:Str_3.10'7; { This incident probably occurred in the aftermath of the defeat of Cato.}

13

EGY << Document: PTeb_18, a letter from Polemon to Menches.

14

{14 Phaophi -E = Nov.} Document: PTeb_14, a letter from Menches to Horus.

15

{20 Phaophi -E = Nov.} Document: PTeb_26 & 71, a letter from Horus and a report on irrigation and sowing.

16

{? Hathyr -E = Nov.} Document: PTeb_39, a petition from Apollodorus to Menches.
@ SelPap_2.276.

17

?? Document: PTeb_23, a letter from Marres to Menches.

18

ROM << The daughter of L.Helvius is killed by a bolt of lightning.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Plut:Mor_284'A;* +Obseq_37; ~Oros_5.15'20-21; { CAH_9'747.}

19

{16 December -R} The Vestal virgin Aemilia is found guilty of breaking her vow of chastity.
* Read Dio's account
@ +[Liv]:Per_63; Plut:Mor_284'B; DioCass_fr.87'1-5;* +Obseq_37; ~Oros_5.15'22; #Macrob:Sat_1.10'5;L { CAH_9'747.}

20

{18 December -R} The Vestal virgin Licinia is acquitted after speeches by L.Crassus and C.Curio.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:Brut_122,* 124, 160; Ascon_46;L #Macrob:Sat_1.10'6;L Schol:Bob_85.

21

The census is completed, with a total of over 394,000 Roman citizens.
@ +[Liv]:Per_63; { CAH_9'783.}

21a

EGY {10 Choiak -E = December} Document: AET_6.4'C, a demotic divorce document.

22

ROM == Sulpicia is chosen, as the chastest woman in Rome, to dedicate the temple of Venus Verticordia.
@ Ovid:Fast_4'157-160; ValMax_8.15'12; Plin:HN_7'120; +Obseq_37.

23

== The birth of the orator Q.Hortensius.
* Read Cicero's account
@ ~Cic:Brut_229-230,* 301, 324; { OCD_h.}

24

== Omens, including the appearance of a circle around the sun, and a rainshower of milk and blood.
@ +Plin:HN_2'98, +'147.