The Lantern

Chronicle · Pages 188-33254

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after whom Jannaeus, also called Alexander, for 27 years.

1 c Ptolemy Physcon was expelled from the kingdom by his mother Cleopatra, and withdraws to Cyprus.

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3 d Aquilius suppressed the Slave war in Sicily.

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d Turpilius the writer of comedies, exceedingly old, dies at Sinuessa. * e Dying, Ptolemy King of the Cyrenes made the Romans his heirs in his will.

13 e Gaius Lucilius the satirical writer dies at Naples, and is given a public funeral, in the forty sixth year of his life. *

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f The poet Marcus Furius, surnamed Bibaculus, is born at Cremona. * 5 g The poet Titus Lucretius is born, who afterwards, driven mad by a love-potion, although during intervals of his insanity he had composed several books which Cicero later corrected, killed himself with his own hand in his forty-fourth year. *

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14 g 200,000 Cimbrians slaughtered, and 80,000 captured along with their leader Teutomodus by Marius. *