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

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AFR Hasdrubal marches against Masinissa.
@ Appian:Pun_70.

LUS Lucullus campaigns against the Lusitani near Gades and Turdetania.
@ Appian:Hisp_59; { Lucullus attacked the Lusitani immediately after coming out of his winter quarters.}

NUM << A battle between Masinissa and the Carthaginians.
* Read Appian's account
@ Polyb_36.16'12; ValMax_2.10'4, 5.2e'4; Plut:Mor_791'F-792'A; ~Appian:Pun_71-72;* { CAH_8'151; Walbank_p654.}

LUS Galba massacres the Lusitani.
* Read Appian's account
@ Cic:Brut_89; Nepos:Cat_3'4; [Liv]:Per_49, +:EpOx_48'83;L ValMax_8.1'2, 9.6'2; Suet:Gal_3'2; Appian:Hisp_59-60,* 61; Oros_4.21'10; { CAH_8'137; OCD�.}

NUM Masinissa forces the Carthaginian army to surrender.
* Read Appian's account
@ Polyb_3.5'1; ~[Liv]:Per_48; ~Appian:Pun_72-74,* 79; Zonar_9'26;(p367) { CAH_8'150-151.}

SYR ?? Demetrius studies Epicurean philosophy with Philonides.
@ Phld:Phil_27-29, 37, 41.

++ Demetrius is alleged to be frequently drunk.
* Read Polybius' account
@ Polyb_33.19'1;* Athen_10.440'b.

Demetrius is defeated and killed by the army of Alexander Balas.
* Read Josephus' account
@ Polyb_3.5'3; 1Macc_10'48-53; ~[Liv]:Per_48, 52; Strab_13'624;(4.2) Joseph:AJ_13'58-61,* '80; Appian:Syr_67; Just_35.1'11; +[Euseb]:Chron_255, 263; +Hieron:Chron_1867; Sulpit_2'24; ExcBarb_46A; { CAH_8'362; OCD�.}

ROM The Romans start to raise an army to fight against the Carthaginians.
* Read Appian's account
@ ~Appian:Pun_74,* 80, 93; { CAH_8'152.}

PHO The wedding of Alexander Balas and Cleopatra, daughter of Ptolemy VI; Alexander summons Jonathan and treats him with great honour.
* Read 1Maccabees' account
@ +1Macc_10'51-66;* [Liv]:Per_52; Joseph:AJ_13'80-85; ChronPasc_441'C; +Hieron:Chron_1866, 1874; Sulpit_2'24; { CAH_8'538; Green_445.}

GRE The Achaean general Menalcidas receives a bribe from the people of Oropus.
@ Paus_7.11'6-12'3; { Menalcidas was probably strategus in 151/0 (Walbank_p532).}

NAR << **Scipio Aemilianus passes through Massilia and other cities, and makes enquiries about the British Isles.**
@ Strab_4'190<q"(2.1) Polyb_34.10'7>;{ Walbank_p612.}

ROM The senate votes to allow the Achaean exiles to return home, after a caustic comment from Cato.
* Read Plutarch's account
@ Polyb_3.5'4; Plut:CatMai_9'2-3,* :Mor_199'E; Paus_7.10'12; Zonar_9'31;(p401) { CAH_8'319; Green_278-279.}

Supposed date of the conversation in Cicero's "de Senectute".
@ Cic:Sen_3-85; { Cato is said to be 84 years old, and Masinissa is 90 years old (Cic:Sen_32-34).}

The Carthaginians send an embassy to defend their action against Masinissa.
* Read Appian's account
@ Diod_31.1'1, 3'1; Appian:Pun_74;* { CAH_8'151.}

Cato persuades to senate to go to war against Carthage, despite the opposition of Nasica.
* Read Polybius' account
@ Polyb_36.1'1-2'4;* [Cic]:RhetHer_4'20; Cic:LegAgr_2'87, :Tusc_3'51, :Off_1'79; Diod_34.33'3-5; ~[Liv]:Per_49; Plut:CatMai_27'2-5; Flor_1.31'4-5; [Vict]:VirIll_47'8; August:DeCiv_1'30, 2'18; Oros_4.23'8-10; Zonar_9'30;(p399) { This famous debate is reported in various contexts; but the final decision to go to war was made in this year (see Walbank_p654).}

?? The Lex Aelia et Fufia confirms the right of magistrates to obstruct plebeian assemblies.
* Read Cicero's account
@ Cic:RedSen_11, :HarResp_58, :Sest_33, :Vat_18, 23, :Pis_9-10;* Schol:Bob_148;L { ~ OCD�.}

16a

?? Gallus explains Archimedes' globe.
@ Cic:Rep_1'21-22; { Gallus died before the trial of Galba in 149 B.C.}

16b

GRE ?? Construction of the Stoa of Attalus at Athens.
@ SEG_16.158; Athen_5.212'f.

LYC ?? Document: SEG_60.1569, a treaty between Oenoanda and the Lycian League.

?? Cibyra and three other cities in Lycia form a political union.
@ OGIS_762; Strab_13'631.(4.17)

PAL ?? Document: Jubilees_, the Book of Jubilees. { The book appears to refer to the Maccabean revolt, and was probably written soon afterwards.}