16 g Libya left by the will of king Appion to the Romans. * 3 65
11 l Crassus celebrated a triumph. * 7 70 h The satiric and lyric 5
(1) 'togatae'.
(2) Salome.
(3) The Third Servile War (Gladiators' War), instigated in 73 B.C. by Spartacus, an escaped slave and gladiator; the war ended in 71 B.C.
(4) Not the peninsula as a whole, but the entire Roman province. This had been in revolt under Sertorius.
(5) Venusia was on the borders of Apulia and Lucania; the date was 8 December 65 B.C.
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poet Horace Flaccus is born at Venusia to a freedman father. * he died at Piacenza. *
25 a Caesar, crossing the Rhine, devastates the Germans. 12 56
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17 a Apollodorus the Pergamene, a Greek orator, teacher of Callidius and Augustus, is considered important. * 4 64 b The consul Crassus captured with his son at Carrae. *
26 c Ventidius is the first of the Romans to defeat the Parthians. * 13 55
18 b Pompey, after Jerusalem had been captured, makes the Jews tributary. 5 63
d The active Populares orator Curio is considered notable in Rome; who afterwards in Africa, from the shame of losing his Army, chose to die rather than escape. *
19 c Those things which Sallust and Livy write about Catiline, Cethegus, and Lentulus, and the Consul Cicero, happened at this time. (*) 6 62 27 14 54
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20 d Cicero spends a year in exile, being received with honour by Plancius. 1 * 7 61
e Virgil, having assumed the toga, goes to Milan, and after a short time goes on to Rome. *
e Pompey hailed 'imperator.'
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21 f Caesar captures Lusitania and some islands in the ocean. 8 60 182nd Olympiad
29 f The statue of Jupiter Olympiacus struck by lightning. 16 52
22 g Messalla Corvinus the orator, and Titus Livius of Padua, the writer of history, are born. * 9 59