De Galatische Oorlog: Het Jaar 189 BCE

Samenvatting Stichting van de Latijnse kolonie Bononia; De nieuwe praetor van Hispania Ulterior, Lucius Baebius Dives, wordt gedood op weg naar zijn provincie; Lucius Aemilius Paullus zet zijn operaties tegen de Lusitani voort en behaalt een grote zege; De pontifex maximus Publius Licinius Crassus verbiedt de praetor en flamen Quirinalis…

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Lusitanian and Celtiberian Wars: The Year 151 BCE

Summary The Senate decides to continue the war against the Celtiberians, but there are serious problems with the levy of soldiers; The consuls are arrested by people’s tribunes who had been unable to obtain exemption from military service for their friends; Scipio Aemilianus volunteers to fight in Spain; Marcus Claudius…

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The Bacchanalia: The Year 186 BCE

Summary The consuls Spurius Postumius Albinus and Quintus Marcius Philippus suppress the Bacchanalia in Rome and the rest of Italy; The Senate adopts the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, which allows the Bacchanalia to continue under very strict conditions only; The consul Quintus Marcius Philippus is heavily defeated by the Ligurian…

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Prelude to the Seleucid War: The Year 193 BCE

Summary A Lex Sempronia curbs usury; Many Romans seek exemption from military service, but the Senate refuses to grant dispensations; A large army of Ligurians surrounds Pisa, but withdraws when the consul Quintus Minucius Thermus arrives with his army; The consul Lucius Cornelius Merula wins a bloody, but decisive victory…

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