k Anaxilaus Larisseus, a Pythagorean
(1) Dio Cassius 51.21.8 . The reference is to Alexander Helios (the 'sun') and Cleopatra Selene (the 'moon').
(2) This number is missing in 'O'.
(3) This number is coloured red in 'O'.
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and a magician, is expelled from the City and from Italy by Augustus. * was offered to him, declined.
21 a Quintilius of Cremona, a friend of Vergil and Horace, dies. * 11 23
a M. Terentius Varro the philosopher dies when nearly a nonagenarian. *
b Augustus deprived the Cyzicenes of their liberty.
1990 17 b Thebes of Egypt razed to the ground. 7 27 22 c Pylades, the Cilician writer of pantomime, although the ancients themselves had sung and danced, was the first in Rome to make a chorus and pipe make music. * 12 22
c Cornelius Gallus the Frejusian poet, by whom Egypt was first governed, as we said above, killed himself with his own hand in the 43rd year of his life. *
23 d Sent by Augustus, Tiberius took possession of Armenia. 13 21
d Trallis destroyed in an earthquake.
18 e The Indians through a deputation requested friendship with Augustus. * 8 26 e Atratinus, who had prosecuted Caelius at the age of seventeen, is considered important among orators. In the end, due to the weight of his illnesses, having died voluntarily in the bath, he left Augustus his heir. *
f Messala Corvinus, when he was first made urban prefect, relinquished his magistracy on the sixth day, claiming that it was an unjust form of authority. *
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19 g Augustus makes the Calabri and the Gauls subject to taxation. 9 25 24 f The Cantabri, initiating an insurrection, are crushed. 14 20
h Munatius Plancus, a student of Cicero, is considered notable as an orator; who, when he was in charge of Gallia Comata, founded Lyons. * 25 g Herod in Jerusalem constructed many and great buildings. 15 19
26 h Vergil dies in Brundisium, when Sentius Saturninus and Lucretius Cinna were consuls. His bones, having been taken to Naples, are buried within the second mile-marker of that city, with this very epitaph written above it, which he himself had dictated as he lay dying: 16 18
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20 i Marcus Lollius makes Galatia a province.
k Augustus, when the monarchy
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