The Lantern

Chronicle · Pages 188-33261

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Alexandrians

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the successor to him; when he was murdered after a year, he reappointed Ananelus to the priesthood. 12 a Until Cleopatra, the Ptolemies, who were called Lagids, reigned in Egypt for 295 years. 19 2 32

a The movements of the moon, according to the Romans, discovered. * b Artorius the doctor of Augustus perishes after the victory of Actium in a shipwreck. *

11 b Treaty of Antony and Augustus. 18 1 23

c The Romans planted colonies. 13 c Some compute the first year of the monarchy of Augustus from this point. 20 3 31

d Augustus celebrated a triumph for his land-battle triumph.

e Antony handed over Arabia to Cleopatra. d Caesar called Augustus, from whom the month Sextilis received the name of Augustus.

f The beginning of the third disagreement of Augustus and Antony, because the sister of Caesar having been repudiated, he had married Cleopatra. (*)

14 e With a huge pomp of triumphs, Augustus entered Rome, and led before his chariot the children of Cleopatra, the Sun and the Moon. 1 21 4 30

g Nicetes, Hybreas, Theodorus and Plution are considered the most noble Greek teachers of the rhetorical art. *

15 f Nicopolis founded near Actium and the Actian games established. 22 5 29

The power of the Alexandrians ends.

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g Augustus enacts many laws for the Romans.

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h Cleopatra and Antony kill themselves, and Egypt is made a Roman province, which Caius Cornelius Gallus first headed, about whom Virgil writes in the Eclogues . (*) 188th Olympiad

h A census of Rome having been taken, there were found to be 4,164,000 Roman citizens.

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16 i Colonies planted. 23 2 6 3 28