The History of Roman Literature - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
207 The poem on the victory of Sena entrusted to Livius.
204 Cato quaestor; brings Ennius to Rome.
201 Naevius dies (?).
191 Cato military tribune.
190 Cincius still writes.
189 Ennius goes with Fulvius into Aetolia.
185 Terence born. [2]
184 Cato censor. Plautus dies.
179 Caecilius flourished.
173 Ennius wrote the twelfth book of the _Annals_.
170 Accius born.
169 Ennius dies. Cato's speech _pro lege Voconia_.
168 Caecilius dies.
166 Terence's _Andria_.
165 Terence's _Hecyra_.
163 Terence's _Hautontimorumenos_.
161 Terence's _Eunuchus_ and _Phormio_.
160 Terence's _Adelphoe_.
159 Terence dies.
154 Pacuvius flourished.
151 Albinus, the consul, writes history (Gell. xi. 8).
150 Cato finishes the _Origines_.
149 Cato, aged 85, accuses Galba. Dies in the same year. C. Calpurnius Piso Frugi, the historian.
148 Lucilius born.
146 Ca.s.sius Hemina flourished. C. Fannius, the historian, serves at Carthage.
142 Antonius, the orator, born.
140 Cra.s.sus, the orator, born. Accius, aged 30, Pacuvius, aged 80, exhibit together.
134 Semp.r.o.nius Asellio served at Numantia. Lucilius begins to write.
123 Caelius Antipater flourished.
119 Cra.s.sus accuses Carbo.
116 Varro born.
115 Hortensius born.
111 Cra.s.sus and Scaevola quaestors. [3]
109 Atticus born.
107 Cra.s.sus tribune.
106 Cicero born.
103 The Tereus of Accius. Death of Turpilius.
102 Furius Bibaculus born at Cremona.
100 Aelius Stilo.
98 Antonius defends Aquillius.
95 First public appearance of Hortensius. Lucretius born (?).
92 Cra.s.sus censor. Opilius teaches rhetoric.
91 Cra.s.sus dies. Pomponius flourished.
90 Scaurus flourished.
89 Cicero serves under the consul Pompeius.
88 Cicero hears Philo and Molo at Rome. Rutilius resident at Mitylene.
Plotius Gallus first Latin teacher of Rhetoric.
87 Antonius slain. Sisenna the historian. Catullus born (?).
86 Sall.u.s.t born.
82 Varro of Atax born. Calvus born.
81 Cicero _pro Quinctio_. Valerius Cato Grammaticus. Otacilius, first freedman who attempts history.
80 _Pro Roscio._ 79 Cicero at Athens; hears Antiochus and Zeno.
78 Cicero hears Molo at Rhodes.
77 Cicero returns to Rome.
76 Asinius Pollio born (?).
75 Cicero quaestor in Sicily.
74 Cicero again in Rome.
70 _Divinatio_ and _Actio I. in Verrem_. Virgil born.
69 Cicero aedile.
67 Varro wins a naval crown under Pompey in the Piratic War (Plin.
_N. H._ xvi. 4).
66 Cicero praetor. _Pro lege Manilia. Pro Cluentio._ M. Antonius Gnipho flourished.
65 _Pro Cornelia._ Horace born.
64 _In toga candida._ 63 Consular orations of Cicero. _Pro Murena._ 62 _Pro P. Sulla._ 61 Annaeus Seneca born.
59 Livy born(?). Aelius Tubero with Cicero in Asia. _Pro A. Thermo.
Pro L. Flacco._ 58 Cicero goes into exile.
57 Cicero recalled. Calidius a good speaker.
56 _Pro s.e.xtio. In Vatinium. De Provinciis Consularibus._ 55 _In Calpurnium Pisonem. De Oratore._ Virgil a.s.sumes the _toga virilis_.
54 _Pro Vatinio. Pro Scauro. De Republica._ 52 _Pro Milone._ Lucretius dies(?). [4]
51 Cicero proconsul in Cilicia.
50 Death of Hortensius. Sall.u.s.t expelled from the senate.
49 Cicero at Rome. Varro lieutenant of Pompey in Spain.
48 Lenaeus satirizes Sall.u.s.t. Cicero in Italy.
47 Cicero at Brundisium. Hyginus brought to Rome by Caesar. Catullus still living (C. 52).
46 The _Brutus_ written. Calvus dies. Sall.u.s.t praetor. _Pro Marcello. Pro Ligario._ 45 Cicero's _Orator_. _Pro Deiolaro._ 44 The first four Philippics. Death of Caesar.
43 The later Philippics. Death of Cicero. Birth of Ovid.
42 Horace at Philippi.
40 Cornelius Nepos flourished. Perhaps Hor. Sat. i. 2. Epod. xiii.
39 Ateius Philologus born at Athens. Perhaps Virg. Ecl. vi. viii.
Hor. Od. ii. 7. Epod iv.
38 Perhaps Ecl. vii. Hor. Sat. i. 3.
37 Varro (aet. 80) writes _de Re Rustica._ Perh. Ecl. x. Sat. i. 5 and 6. Epod. v.
36 Cornelius Severus(?) Hor. Sat. i. 8, 35 Bavius dies. Hor. Sat. i. 4, 9, 10.
34 Sall.u.s.t dies. Sat. ii. 2. Epod. iii.
33 Sat. ii. 3. Epod. xi. xiv.
32 Atticus dies. Sat. ii. 4, 5. Epod. vii.
31 Messala consul. Sat. ii. 6. Epod. i. and ix.
30 Gallus made praefect of Egypt. Ca.s.sius Severus dies. Tibullus El. i.
3. The _Georgics_ published. Hor. Sat. ii. 7, 8, and perhaps 1, Epod ii.
29 Livy writing his first book. Propertius I. 6.
28 Varro dies.
27 Od. i. 35. Vitruvius writing his work.
26 Gallus dies (aet. 40). Second book of Propertius published (?).
[5]
25 Livy's first book completed before this year. Hor. Od. ii. 4.
24 Quintil. Varus dies (= the poet of Cremona, mentioned in the ninth Eclogue [?]).
23 The first three books of the Odes published.
22 Marcellus dies. Virgil reads the sixth Aeneid to Augustus and Livia.
Third book of Propertius (?).
21 Hor. writes Ep. i. 20 (aet. 44).
