The Lantern

Chronicle · Pages 188-33237

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1 218 1 f Ptolemy Epiphanes, having appointed Scopas general of his army, captures Judaea and many cities of Syria.

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5 c The Jews were defeated, and 60,000 of their soldiers were slaughtered.

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3 g Naevius the writer of comedies dies at Utica, driven from Rome by a party of nobles, but especially of Metellus. *

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d Vestal Virgins buried alive at Rome, on account of an accusation of unchastity.

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5 214 145th Olympiad h Plautus, from Sarsina in Umbria, dies at Rome; who, because of trouble over his income, had hired himself

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