Named Entity Results, 180 BC

Pharnaces Invades Cappadocia In Asia king Pharnaces, once more treating the reference to Rome with contempt, sent Leocritus in Winter of B. C. 181-180. the course of the winter with ten thousand men to ravage Galatia, while he himself at the beginning of spring collected his forces and invaded Cappadocia.Spring of B. C. 180. When Eumenes heard of it, he was much enraged at Pharnaces thus breaking through the terms of the agreement to which he was pledged, but was compelled to retaliate by ac180. When Eumenes heard of it, he was much enraged at Pharnaces thus breaking through the terms of the agreement to which he was pledged, but was compelled to retaliate by acting in the same way.Eumenes enters Cappadocia. When he had already collected his forces, Attalus and his brother landed from their voyage from Rome, and the three brothers, after meeting and interchanging views, marched out at once with the army. Two Galatian chiefs. But on reaching Galatia they found Leocritus no longer there; and when Carsignatus and Gaesotorius, who had before embraced the cause of Pharnaces, sent them a message desiring that their lives might be spared, and promising that

her, who as praetor had had Sicily as his province. Then the following were elected praetors: Gnaeus Fulvius Flaccus, Gaius Claudius Nero, Marcus Junius Silanus, Publius Cornelius Sulla. Having finished the elections, the dictator laid down his office. Curule aedile that year, together with Marcus Cornelius Cethegus, was Publius Cornelius Scipio,Scipio was probably only 22, but the famous law fixing statutory ages for the different offices (Lex Villia annalis) was not passed until 180 B.C.; XL. xliv. 1. who was later called Africanus. When he was a candidate for the aedileship, and the tribunes of the plebs tried to oppose him, saying that he ought not to be considered because he did not have the legal age for candidacy, he said, If allB.C. 213 the citizens want to make me aedile I have years enough. Thereupon with such enthusiasm they separated to form by tribes in order to cast their votes, that the tribunes suddenly gave up their attempt. The generosity of the ae

a panic-stricken army, he roundly upbraided the praetor and ordered him to leave the province and return to Rome. Nor did the consul, even, accomplish anything worth recording, being recalled to Rome to hold the elections; the actual meetings were blocked by the plebeian tribunes Marcus Fulvius and Manius Curius, because they would not allow Titus Quinctius Flamininus to stand for the consulship immediately after the quaestorship:Until the enactment of the lex Villia annalis in 180 B.C. (XL. xliv. 1), custom alone controlled the sequence in which the offices were held, though sect. 11 below suggests that there were certain legal conditions of eligibility. However, the later legislation that created the cursus honorum merely gave legal form to the prevailing practice, which was that the offices of quaestor, aedile, praetor, and consul should normally be held in that order. the aedileship and praetorship, they said, were already treated with contempt, and the nobles, w

The camp was under the command of Marcus Aemilius, tribune of the soldiers, the son of that Marcus Lepidus who a few years later became pontifex maximus.In 180 B.C. (XL. xlii. 12). When he saw the flight of his men, he met them with his entire guard and ordered them first to halt and then to return to the battle, taunting them with fear and disgraceful flight; then he uttered threats that they were rushing blindly toB.C. 190 their own deaths if they did not obey his orders; finally, he gave the signal to his own men to kill the first of the fugitives and with steel and wounds to drive against the enemy the mass of those that followed. This greater fear prevailed over the lesser; driven by terror in front and rear they first halted; then they too returned to the fight, and Aemilius with his own guard —they were two thousand gallant men —boldly withstood the onrushing king, and Attalus, the brother of Eumenes, from the right flank, where the enemy's left had