1362 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES OF War continued against the Ligurians. The Senatusconsultum de Bacchanalibus. Coss. Ap. Claudius Pulcher. M. Sempronius Tuditanus. War continued against the Ligurians. P. Scipio Africanus accused by M. Naeviiis. He retires from Rome before his trial. Coss. P. Claudius Pulcher. L. Porcius Licinus. Censs. L. Valerius Flaccus. M. Porcius Cato. War continued against the Ligurians. Cato ex- ercises his censorship with great severity ; expels Flamininus from the senate, and de- prives L. Scipio of his equus publicus. Death of Plautus. Coss. M. Claudius Marcellus. Q. Fabius Labeo. War continued against the Ligurians. Death of Scipio Africanus. (The year of his death is variously stated: see Vol. IIL p. 747.) Death of Hannibal. Coss. Cn. Baebius Taraphilus. L. Aemilius PauUus. War continued against the liigurians. Two praetors sent into Spain. Coss. P. Cornelius Cethegus. M. Baebius Tamphilus, War continued against the Ligurians. The Ligures Ingauni submit to the Romans. Lex Cornelia Baebia de ambitu. The sumptuary law of the tribune Orchius. Discovery of the alleged books of Numa. Coss. A. Postumius Albinus, C. Calpumius Piso. Mori. e. Q. Fulvius Flaccus. War continued against the Ligurians, The Ligures Apuani transplanted to Samnium. Colony sent to Pisa. . The Lex Annalis of the tribune Villius fixes the age at which the magistracies might be held. Coss. L. Manlius Acidinus Fulvianus. Q. Fulvius Flaccus. Censs. L. Aemilius Lepidus. M. Fulvius Nobilior. War continued against the Ligurians : they are defeated by the consul Fulvius. Tib. Gracchus, the father of the two tribunes, subdues the Celtiberians in Spain. Death of Philip king of Macedonia, and accession of Perseus.- The citizens at the census are 273,294. Caecilius, the comic poet, flourished. Coss. M. Junius Brutus. A. Manlius Vulso. War with the Istrians. Coss. C. Claudius Pulcher. Ti. Sempronius Gracchus. Subjugation of the Istrians by the consul Claudius, who also defeats the Ligurians. Colonies founded at Luna and Lucca. The consul Gracchus carries on war against the Sardinians, who had revolted. Coss. Q. Petillius Spurinus. Occis. e. Cn. Cornel. Scipio Hispallus. Mort. e. C. Valerius Laevinus. War continued against the Ligurians. The consul Petillius defeated and slain by the Ligurians. Gracchus subdues the Sar- dinians. 174 173 172 171 170 169 168 16: 166 165 Coss. P. Mucius Scaevola. M. Aemilius Lepidus II. War continued against the Ligurians, who are defeated by the consuls. Gracchus returns to Rome, and triumphs over the Sardinians. Origin of the proverb Sardi venules. Coss. Sp. Postumius Albinus Paullulus. Q. Mucius Scaevola. Censs. Q. Fulvius Flaccus. A. Postumius Albinus. The censors order the streets of Rome to be paved. The citizens at the census are 269,015. Coss. L. Postumius Albinus. M. Popillius Laenas. Popillius defeats the Ligurians. Ennius is now in kis 67th year. Coss. C. Popillius Laenas. P. Aelius Ligus. Eumenes comes to Rome to denounce Per- seus. • Coss. P. Licinius Crassus. C. Cassius Longinus. War with Perseus. First year. The consul Licinius carries on the war with success against Perseus. He winters in Boeotia and Thessaly. Coss. A. Hostilius Mancinus. A. Atilius Serranus. Second year of the war against Perseus. The consul Hostilius Mancinus commands in Macedonia. Birth of the poet Accins or Attius. Coss. Q. Marcius Philippus II. Cn. Servilius Caepio. Censs. C. Claudius Pulcher. Ti. Sempronius Gracchus. Third year of the war against Perseus. The consul Marcius commands in Macedonia. The Lex Voconia. The libertini placed in the four city tribes by the censor Grac- chus. The citizens at the census are 312,805. Death of Ennius. Coss. L. Aemilius Paullus II. C. Licinius Crassus. Fourth and last year of the war against Per- seus. The consul Aemilius Paullus defeats Perseus at the battle of Pydna on the 22nd of June. Perseus shortly afterwards taken prisoner. End of the Macedonian monarchy. War with the Illyrians ; the war is ended in 30 days. Death of Caecilius, the comic poet. Coss. Q. Aelius Paetus. M. Junius Pennus. Aemilius Paullus settles the affairs of Greece. He destroys seventy towns in Epeinis. More than 1000 principal Achaeans are sent to Rome : among them is the historian Polybius. Coss. M. Claudius Marcellus. C. Sulpicius Gallus. The consuls defeat the Alpine Gauls and the Ligurians. The Andria of Terence exhibit'?d. Coss. T. Manlius Torquatus. Cn. Octavius. The Ilecyra of Terence exhibited.
