205 B.C. - events and references (original) (raw)
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LYC {2 Audnaeus -M = Dec./Jan.} Document: SEG_38.1476, the response of Xanthus to an appeal for aid from the town of Cytenium in Doris.
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ROM The Roman senate debates whether to invade Africa.
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@ Diod_27.2'1; +Liv_28.38'12-45'12;* Quint_3.8'17, '37;,Silius_16'600-700; Plut:Fab_25'1-26'2; +Appian:Hann_55, :Pun_6-7; Polyaen_8.14'2; DioCass_fr.57'52; +Zonar_9'11;(p233) { CAH_8'62; OCD�.}
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Scipio leaves for Sicily.
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@ +Liv_28.45'13-46'6;* +Appian:Hann_55, :Pun_8; { DPRR.}
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CIS Mago arrives in Liguria.
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@ +Liv_28.46'7-14,* 29.3'15; ~Appian:Hann_54; +Zonar_9'11;(p233) { CAH_8'56; OCD�.}
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NUM Masinissa recovers his father's kingdom.
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@ +Liv_29.30'1-13;* Appian:Pun_10-11.(↓)
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ITA Hannibal is forced to remain mostly inactive by an epidemic in his army and by lack of supplies.
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@ +Liv_28.46'15-16;* ~Appian:Hann_54; +Zonar_9'11;(p233) { CAH_8'56.}
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SIC Scipio prepares an army of invasion in Sicily.
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@ Ennius:Ann_297-299; +Liv_29.1'1-18,* 38.51'1; ValMax_3.6'1, 7.3'3; Sen:Dial_3.11'6; Tac:Ann_2'59; Plut:Mor_196'C; +Appian:Hann_55, :Pun_8; +Zonar_9'11;(p233) { CAH_8'63; Green_704.}
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SPA The Romans crush a rebellion by Indibilis and Mandonius.
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@ +Liv_29.1'19-3'6;* Appian:Hisp_38; { CAH_8'60-61.}
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MAC Philippus marches to Apollonia to face a Roman force led by Sempronius.
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@ +Liv_29.12'2-7;* +Zonar_9'11;(p233) { CAH_8'104; Green_300.}
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GRE ?? Paulus, a friend of Lacydes, resists bravely when put to torture.
@ ClemAl:Strom_4'8.
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<< The death of the philosopher Lacydes, after a long illness.
@ ~Apollod:Fr_47; Phld:Acad_O,B M;B
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?? Document: Syll_554, a decree of the Aetolian League recognising the inviolability of Magnesia.
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ASI ?? Antiochus sends Jewish settlers to Phrygia and Lycia.
@ Joseph:AJ_12'147; { While Antiochus was away in the east.}
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EXT ?? Antiochus receives the epithet "the Great".
@ Appian:Syr_1; { Green_296.}
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PER ?? Document: Austin_190B (OGIS_233), a decree of Antiocheia-in-Persis renewing its close connections with Magnesia on the Maeander.
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CIS Mago receives reinforcements from Carthage, and sets about raising an army from Liguria.
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@ +Liv_29.3'7-5'9,* 24'5; ~Appian:Hann_54, :Pun_9; Zonar_9'11.(p235)
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ITA The Romans recapture Locri, despite a counter-attack by Hannibal.
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@ +Liv_29.6'1-8'5,* 17'1-4, '10; +Appian:Hann_55; +Zonar_9'11;(p235) { CAH_8'56; OCD�.}
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NUM << Syphax defeats Masinissa and drives him out of his kingdom.
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@ ~Liv_29.31'1-33'9,* 30.13'7, 37.25'9; Appian:Pun_11-12; DioCass_fr.57'53; { CAH_8'63, '527.}
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ITA The vicious conduct of Pleminius as Roman governor of Locri.
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@ Diod_27.4'1-5; +Liv_29.8'6-9'12,* 18'7-15, 34.44'7; ValMax_1.1'21; +Appian:Hann_55; { CAH_8'56.}
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EPI ++ General descriptions of the First Macedonian War.
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@ Silius_15'291-316; Zonar_9'15.* (p277)
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The peace of Phoenice between the Romans and Philippus; end of the First Macedonian War.
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@ Polyb_18.1'14; Sall:Hist_4.67'6; +Liv_29.12'8-16,* 31.1'8, 31'19; Silius_15'317-319; Appian:Mac_3'4;(4) Just_29.4'11; Trog:Prol_29; +Zonar_9'11;(p233) { CAH_8'104-105; Errington_p189.}
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EGY {Thoth -E = November} Document: AET_6.16, a letter dated to the reign of the rebel king Haronnophris.
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ROM Q.Caecilius Metellus is appointed dictator to hold the consular elections.
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@ Ennius:Ann_300-305; Liv_30.23'3,* 35.8'4; +FastCap_p62; { DPRR.}
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== After consulting the Sibylline Books, the Romans send envoys to Attalus in an attempt to obtain the sacred stone of the Idaean Mother.
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@ Cic:HarResp_27; +Liv_29.10'4-11'8,* 38'6; Ovid:Fast_4'249-290; Strab_12'567;(5.3) ~Appian:Hann_56; Herodian_1.11'3; Julian:Or_5.159'C-D; August:DeCiv_3'12; { CAH_8'427.}
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ITA == T.Flamininus as praetor is appointed governor of Tarentum.
@ Plut:Flam_1'4-5; { DPRR.}
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GRE Document: Syll_539, a decree of the Amphictyons in honour of Eudamus of Athens, a hieromnemon.
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ROM >> A temple vowed to Virtue by Marcellus is dedicated by his son.
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@ +Liv_29.11'13;* Plut:Mor_322'C.