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Jerome, Chronicle (2005) pp.188-332


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    2   a Harmodius and Aristogiton killed the tyrant Hipparchus, and the courtesan Leaena their friend, when compelled with torments, lest she betray her companions, she amputated her tongue with her teeth.
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  34   520   68th Olympiad a The Aeginatans controlled the sea 17th for 20 years until the crossing of Xerxes.
       
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  35   519     14  
  46   508
       
        1510   15  
  47   507
       
            16   b Valerius, the colleague of the consul Brutus, died so poor that he was interred at public expense. *
  48   506
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  36   518     17  
  49   505
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  37   517   69th Olympiad
       
  66th Olympiad               18   c At Rome, after a census had been taken, there were found to be 120,000 men.
  50   504
    6   b The temple of Jerusalem is completed, when Haggai and Zechariah are prophesying among the Jews.
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  38   516        
Of the Macedonians, Alexander, for 43 years  
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  39   515         d Nine years after the kings were expelled, a new rank was created, that is, the dictatorship, and the Master of the Horse, who would answer to the dictator. Largius was the first Dictator, and Spurius Cassius the Master of Horse. (*)
 
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  40   514        
 
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  41   513        
       
  67th Olympiad  
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  1   503
    10   c After the kings had been expelled from the City, Rome was holding power barely as far as the 15th milestone. The seven kings of the Romans from Romulus until Tarquinius Superbus reigned for 240 years, or as some prefer, 243. (*)
  42   512     20   
  2   502
       
            21   
  3   501
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  43   511   70th Olympiad e Hellanicus the historian, and Democritus the philosopher, and Heraclitus surnamed 'the Dark', and Anaxagoras the natural scientist are considered important.
       
       
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  4   500
       
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  5   499
       
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  6   498
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  44   510 1520   25   f Pythagoras the philosopher dies.
  7   497
        d After the kings had been expelled, first two consuls began to exist at Rome, from Brutus; then tribunes of the plebs and dictators, and then consuls again controlled the Republic for close to 464 years, until Julius Caesar, who was the first to seize sole rule, in the 183rd Olympiad.
          71st Olympiad g The Volsci destroyed Corioli. *
       
       
            26   h Aeschylus the writer of tragedies is well known.
  8   496
       
               
       
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  45   509     27    i The Latins rebelled against the Romans.
  9   495
       
               
       
       
            28    l After an uprising had happened, the people of Rome, seceded from the fathers.
  10   494
                                   
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    29   a Marcius, who had captured Corioli, withdrew his army from its seige of the City (Rome) by the intervention of his mother Veturia and his wife Volumnia. *
  11   493       a Choerilus and Phrynicus are considered illustrious.
  21   483
       
               
       
       
                b Diagoras is well known, and the followers of his natural philosophy.
       
       
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  22   482
  72nd Olympiad  
              c Xerxes, when he had come to Athens, burned down the city, at the time of the leadership of Callias.
  23   481
    30   b The war that was waged in Marathon, and those things that are written about Miltiades and Aristides who was surnamed the Just.
  12   492        
       
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  13   491   75th Olympiad  
       
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  14   490     6   d The war that was waged in Thermopylae. and the naval battle off Salamis.
  24   480
    33   c Panyasis the poet is considered illustrious.
15   489        
       
        d 300 nobles of the Fabian family slaughtered by the people of Veii. *
               
       
       
            7   e The Athenians fortify Piraeus with a wall.
25   479
        e When the Roman soldiers were besieged on mount Algidus, they were freed by the dictator Quintius Cincinnatus. *
            8   f Hieron reigns at Syracuse.
  26   478
       
        1540   9   g Aeschylus the tragedian is well known.
  27   477
       
          76th Olympiad
       
       
            10   h War in Plateia and Mycale.
  28   476
  73rd Olympiad  
            11   i After Gelon, Hieron exercises tyranny at Syracuse.
  29   475
    34   f Egypt was severed from Darius.
  16   488     12  
  30   474
1530   35    g Gelo occupied Syracuse.
  17   487     13   k Pindar the musician is considered important.
31   473
    36    h Pindar and Simonides the lyrical poets are considered notable.
      486   77th Olympiad  
       
       
            14    l Themistocles flees to the Persians.
  32 n Start of the 71st jubilee accord-
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        i At Rome, the Vestal Virgin Pompilia, discovered in unchastity, was buried alive.
  18         15    m Sophocles, the tragedian, first published the works of his ingenuity.
  33 471
  5th of the Persians, Xerxes son of Darius, for 20 years.
               
     
   
               
     
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  19   485     16   o At Rome, the vestal virgin Sunia, discovered in unchastity, was buried alive.
  34 470
  74th Olympiad k Xerxes captures Egypt.
               
       
      l Aristides is expelled with ignominy.   20   484     17    p Sophocles and Euripides are considered important. 35   469
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                subsequent deeds which are reported to have been performed by them, would not have been silent about Esther.
       
        a Herodotus the historical writer is well known.
               
       
       
            3   a Sicily was ruled by the people.
  42   462
    18   b Bacchylides and Diagoras are celebrated at Athens for their superlative eloquence.
  36   468     4   b Cimon overcomes the Persians in naval and land battle near the Eurimedontis: and halts the Median war.
  43   461
       
               
       
1550   19   c Zeuxis the painter is well-known; some people judge that the so-called 'the bath of the Byzantines' is one of his paintings, many of which he made on commission. *
  37   467        
       
       
               
Of the Macedonians, Perdiccas, for 28 years.  
       
                c An eclipse of the sun happened.
 
       
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        d Themistocles dies from a draught of bull's blood.
            5   d Anaxagoras dies.
  1   460
       
                e Heraclitus is considered important.
       
    20   e Socrates is born.
  38    466         f Evenus the poet is important.
       
        f A stone fell from the sky into the Aegon River.
                g Ezra the priest, notable among the Hebrews, is well-known, in whose time the high priesthood was held by Eliashib, son of Joakim, son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak. Moreover Ezra was most well-learned in the Divine Law, and an important teacher of all the Jews who had returned from captivity to Judaea.
       
  6th of the Persians, Artabanus, for 7 months, after whom, 7th, Artaxerxes, who was surnamed Long-Hand, for 40 years.
               
       
   
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  2   459
   
  39    465        
       
   
               
       
   
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  3   458
   
               
       
   
        1560   8  
  4   457
   
          81st Olympiad h Empedocles and Parmenides are considered most notable natural philosophers.
       
  79th Olympiad g These things were written about Esther and Mordecai: some affirm that they took place under this king, which I do not think; for Ezra, who writes that in this time Ezra and Nehemiah were returned from Babylon, and the
            9  
  5   456
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  40   464         i Zeno and Heraclitus the Dark are well known.
     
       
            10    k Pherecydes the second writer of history is well known.
  6   455
       
               
       
          41    463     11    Cratinus and Plato the writers of comedies 7   454
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        are considered important.
        1570   18   permission of his master, came to Judaea from Babylon in his 20th year, and in his 32nd year restored the walls and the city. Ezra writes that the task was completed under the high priest Joiada, Joasib, who was succeeded by his own son, Jonathan, who lived in the time of Alexander of Macedon.
  14   447
        a Aristarchus the tragedian is well known.
               
       
       
               
       
        b The very famous centennial games of Rome first held.
               
       
       
               
       
    12   c 302 years from the founding of the City, the Decemvirs were created, and after one year they were ejected on account of Appius Claudius, who wished to abduct the daughter of a certain Virginius who was fighting against the Latins in Algidum. *
  8   453        
       
       
            19   a Up to this point, the divine Scriptures of the Hebrews contain annals of time: those things which happened among them after these things, we provide from the book of Maccabees, and Josephus, and from the writings of Africanus, which thereafter continued the universal history until the Roman period.
  15    446
       
               
       
       
               
       
       
               
       
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    13    d The Romans through ambassadors sought out laws from the Athenians, from which the Twelve Tables were inscribed.
    452        
       
       
               
       
       
            20   b The Athenians and Lacedaemonians initiate a treaty of 30 years.
  16   445
    14   e Crates the writer of comedies, and Telesilla and Bacchylides the lyric poets, are considered important: likewise, Praxilla and Cleobulina are renowned.
  10    451        
       
       
                c Herodotus was honoured for reading his books in the assembly at Athens.
       
       
               
       
       
          84th Olympiad  
       
    15   f The temple of Juno that had been at Argos burned down.
   11   450     21   d Melissus the natural philosopher is well known.
17    444
       
            22    e Euripides the tragedian is considered important, and Protagoras the sophist, whose books the Athenians burned by a public decree.
  18    443
    16   g Abaris the Hyperborean Seer is well known.
   12   449