f Plotius Gallus first taught Latin rhetoric at Rome, about whom Cicero thus declares: "I retain the memory that, when we were boys, a certain Plotius first began to teach in Latin." *
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11th of Egypt, Ptolemy Dionysus, for 30 years
1930 2 g Gaius Valerius Catullus, the lyric writer, is born at Verona. 17 87
1 i Sulla occupied Rome, and dies after two years. 24 80
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2 a Having defended Roscius against Chrysogonus, Cicero withdraws to Athens, and returns from that place to Rome after three years. * 25 79 a Vergil Maro is born in the community that is called "Andes" not far from Mantua, when Pompey and Crassus were consuls. *
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3 b Pompey celebrated a triumph most gloriously. 26 78
c Jannaeus devastates many communities. b M. Porcius Cato the Stoic philosopher is well known. *
d Lepidus declared a public enemy.
1940 4 e T. Quintius Atta, a writer of national dramas , dies at Rome, and is buried at the second milestone of the Praenestine Way. * 27 77 178th Olympiad
Of the Jews, Alexandra reigned for 9 years. 13 c Antioch in Syria captured by the Romans. 9 68
d The Cretan war started, from which Metellus was called Creticus. The Jews made tributaries by Pompey, and Hyrcanus received the pontificate among them, for 34 years.
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5 f Alexandra, also called Salina 2 , the wife of Alexander, reigned at Jerusalem, in whose time the breakdown of government and various military disasters oppressed the Jews. 1 76 e The grove of Daphne near Antioch is consecrated to Apollo by Pompey. *
1950 14 f Aristobulus and Hyrcanus, sons of Alexandra, fighting against each other for power, exposed an opportunity to the Romans to take possession of Judaea. And so Pompey, coming to Jerusalem after the city had been captured and the Temple had been opened, approaches up to the holy of holies; he brings Aristobolus with him as a captive, and confirms the pontificate to Hyrcanus; then he makes Antipater, the son of Herod of Ascalon, procurator of Palestine. 1 67
6 2 75
7 g The Gladiators' War in Campania. 3 * 3 74
h L. Lucullus was the first to be hailed 'imperator', having defeated Armenia, Mesopotamia, and captured Nisbis with the brother of the king. (*) 15 2 66
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9 i Pompey subjugated all Spain. 4 * 5 72
10 k M. Lucullus celebrated a triumph over the Bessi, having captured Cabilonnum, together with Tomis and the other nearby cities. * 6 71