"Mantua gave birth to me;
Calabria carried me off;
Now Parthenope holds me.
I sang of pastures, the country and leaders." * a Agrippa captures Bosphorus.
31 b Cestius the Smyrnean rhetor taught Latin in Rome. * 21 13
a Rebuilding Samaria from the ground up, which for a long time now had been sitting in ashes, Herod renamed it Augusta in honor of Augustus, that is, Sebaste, and constructed the town which is called Panion in Paneas. 192nd Olympiad
c Augustus is hailed as pontifex maximus by the Senate.
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d Herod founded Caesarea in the name of Caesar, which previously used to be called Strato's Tower.
2000 27 b Augustus granted freedom to the Samians. 17 17
c In Cyprus, many parts of the cities were ruined in an earthquake. e Herod founded Anthonis, and Antipatris: and he constructed Herodion in his own honour and that of his father Antipater: also he constructed most cleverly innumerable works in individual cities of Syria which he was ruling.
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d Marcus Lollius defeats the Germans who had taken up arms.
e The poets Varius and Tucca, companions of Vergil and Horace, are considered illustrious, who later corrected the books of the Aeneid under this condition: that they added nothing. *
34 f Tiberius Caesar celebrates a triumph over the captured Pannonians. 24 10
191st Olympiad 35 g Horace dies at Rome in the fifty-seventh year of his life. * 25 9
28 f Augustus adopted Gaius Agrippa as his son. 18 16
36 h Passienus the Father, a notable speech-maker, died. * 26 8
g Aemilius Macer, a poet from Verona, dies in Asia. *
i C. Julius Hyginus, surnamed Polyhistor, the grammarian, is considered illustrous. *
29 h Tiberius makes the Vindelici and those who were bordering Thrace, Roman provinces. 19 15
193rd Olympiad
k After Germany had been devastated, Tiberius is hailed as imperator.
30 Colonies at Beirut and Patras planted. 20 14
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