The Lantern

Chronicle · Pages 188-33246

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1860 23 b The battle against the generals of Demetrius having begun, Judas is killed, having carried on the pontificate for 3 years.

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1 157 30 c The Romans, after the false Philip had been killed, make the Macedonians tributaries.

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24 c Aristarchus the grammarian is well known.

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2 156 32 d At Alexandria, with Ptolemy judging, the Samaritans and Jews contend about the honours that are to be offered by each party to their temple, and the Jews win.

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25 d Jonathan, general of the Jews, the brother of Judas, after Bacchides the general of Demetrius had been expelled from Judaea, received the pontificate. *

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e The poet Lucilius is born. *

26 e Pacuvius of Brundisium the tragedian, the nephew of the poet Ennius by his daughter, is considered important; and he lived in Rome as long as he busied himself with painting and offered fables for sale; then, having moved to Tarentum, he died almost a nongenarian. 1

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4 154 1870 33 f At Rome, a survey having been carried out, there were found to be 322,000 men.

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34 g Oppius imprisons the Galli: and Carthago is brought by Scipio under the power of the Romans,668 years since her foundation; or, as