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| A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) | 29 | 29 | Browse | Search |
| Polybius, Histories | 7 | 7 | Browse | Search |
| Pausanias, Description of Greece | 7 | 7 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| Strabo, Geography | 4 | 4 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Letters (ed. Norman W. DeWitt, Norman J. DeWitt) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.) | 3 | 3 | Browse | Search |
| Diodorus Siculus, Library | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
| Demosthenes, Speeches 51-61 | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
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339/8 B.C.At the end of this year, Lysimachides became archon at Athens, and in Rome there were elected
as consuls Quintus Servilius and Marcus Rutilius.Lysimachides was archon at Athens from July 339 to June 338 B.C.
The consuls of 342 B.C. were Q. Servilius Ahala and C. Marcius
Rutilus (Broughton, 1.133). In this year, Timoleon returned to Syracuse and promptly
expelled from the city as traitors all the mercenaries who had abandoned him under the
leadership of Thrasius. These crossed over into Italy, and
coming upon a coastal town in Bruttium, sacked it. The Bruttians, incensed, immediately marched
against them with a large army, stormed the place, and shot them all down with javelins.Plut. Timoleon 30.1-2. Another
group of the impious mercenaries is mentioned also in 30.4. Those who had abandoned
Timoleon were rewarded by such misfortune for their own wickedness. Timoleon himself seized and put to death Postumius the
Etruscan,Th
335/4 B.C.When Evaenetus was archon at Athens, the Romans elected as
consuls Lucius Furius and Gaius Manius.Evaenetus was archon
from July 335 to June 334 B.C. Broughton (1.138) gives the consuls
of 338 B.C. as L. Furius Camillus and C. Maenius. In this
year Alexander, succeeding to the throne, first inflicted due punishment on his father's
murderers,Diodorus has not previously suggested that any
others knew of the plans of Pausanias, who was killed immediately and so could not reveal any
accomplices (Book 16.94.4). Alexander himself was the principal beneficiary of the murder, and
he has been suspected of complicity, especially because, as only half of Macedonian blood, he
was not universally popular. At all events, the known victims of this purge were Alexander's
own rivals: his older cousin Amyntas, son of King Perdiccas III; the family of Alexander of
Lyncestis, although he himself was spared; and Philip's wife Cleopa