OL. A.D. A.U.C.

784 Tiberius consul with Sejanus.

Suet. Tib. 26, 65.
Fall of Sejanus, Oct. 18. He had been in favor now
16 years. The day of his death was consecrated to
Jove. Sat. x. 56-107. Cf. Tac. Ann. vi. 25.

785 Birth of Otho.

787 A. Persius Flaccus, born at Volaterræ in Etruria.

789 Death of Thrasyllus. Sat. vi. 576.
[Cf. Fast. Hellen. iii. p. 277.]

790 Death of Tiberius, in March.
Caligula succeeds, a. æt. 25.

Birth of Nero in December. He and Caligula were
both born at Antium.

791 Potion of Cæsonia? Sat. vi. 616, seq.

[Birth of Josephus, the historian.]

792 Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee, deposed and banished by Caligula, and his dominions given to Agrippa the father of Agrippa, Berenice, and Drusilla. Sat. vi. 156.

40 793 Caligula at Lyons, on his way to the ocean, institutes the "Certamen Græcæ Latinæque facundiæ." Suet. Calig. 20. Sat. i. 44, "Aut Lugdunensem Rhetor dicturus ad aram." Cf. xv. 111. Pers. Sat. vi. 43. [M. Annæus Lucanus brought to Rome in his eighth month.]

794 Caligula slain, Jan. 24. Claudius succeeds, a. æt. 50. Birth of Titus, Dec. 30. [Exile of Seneca.]

Agrippa receives from Claudius Judæa and Samaria.

795 Deaths of Pætus and Arria.

796 First campaign of A. Plautius in Britain.
Influence of Narcissus (Suet. Claud. 28; Dio, lx.
p. 688.
Sat. xiv. 329, "Divitiæ Narcissi Indulsit
Cæsar cui Claudius omnia"), and of Posides. Suet.
U. s. Sat. xiv. 91. [Birth of Martial.]

44 797

206 45

798

46

[Death of Agrippa. Cf. Acts xii. 21-23.]

[His son Agrippa at Rome intercedes for the Jews.]

799 Excesses of Messalina.

Sat. vi. 114–132.

A.U.C.

801 Death of Messalina (and C. Silius, whom she had open-
ly married), Tac. Ann. xi. 26; Suet. Claud. 26, 36,
39, through the influence of Narcissus. Sat. xiv.
331; x. 329-345.

Pallas the Arcadian, Claudius' freedman and secretary.
Sat. i. 109. Cf. an. 62.

The younger Agrippa succeeds his uncle Herod.
Remmius Palamon, the grammarian, Quintilian's mas-
ter, flourishes. Suet. clar. Gram. 23. Sat. vi. 451,
Volvitque Palæmonis artem;" vii. 215, "docti
Palæmonis;" and 1. 219.

66

207 49 802 Marriage of Claudius and Agrippina (widow of Domitius, cf. an. 28). Seneca, through Agrippina's influence, recalled from exile.

50

(Cf. A.D. 41. Schol.

Tac. Ann. xii. 8.

ad Sat. v. 109.) Nero (a. æt. 11) placed under Seneca's care. Suet.

Ner. 7.

803 Eighth campaign in Britain under Ostorius. Caractacus captured. [Persius places himself under Cornutus' care. Pers. v. 36.]

51 804 Birth of Domitian, while his father is consul suffectus. Nero receives the Toga Virilis.

52 805 Felix, brother of Pallas, made procurator of Judæa.

208 53 806 Nero marries Octavia.

Agrippa the younger appointed to Philip's tetrarchy, and Trachonitis, and Abilene.

Sat. v.

807 Claudius poisoned by Agrippina's mushroom.
147, "Boletum domino: sed qualem Claudius edit,
Ante illum uxoris post quem nil amplius edit." (Cf.
Mart. Ep. xiii. 48; I. xxi. 4.) Sat. vi. 620, "Minus
ergo nocens erit Agrippinæ Boletus."
The poison
was procured from Locusta. Sat. i. 71, 72.
Nero succeeds, Oct. 13, a. æt. 17.
Domitius Corbulo appointed to Armenia. Sat. iii. 251,
"Corbulo vix ferret tot vasa ingentia." Cf. Tac.
Ann. xiii. 8.

808 Death of Britannicus, who is poisoned by Nero, through the agency of Locusta.

811

Successful campaign of Corbulo in Armenia. Cf. Sat. viii. Sabina Poppaa. Sat. vi. 462. Her husband Otho sent into Lusitania, where he remains ten years. Cf. Tac. Ann. xiii. 45.

The Parthian war is perhaps alluded to in Persius,
Sat. v. 4. Vid. D'Achaintre in loc.

59 812 Death of Agrippina (Tac. Ann. xiv. 4; Suet. Ner. 34), during the Quinquatrus (xiv.-x. Kal. April). Sat. viii. 215.

Consulship of L. Fonteius Capito. (Cf. an. 118.) Sat. xiii. 17, "Fonteio Consule natus."

60 813 Institution of the Neronia. "Certamen triplex Quinquennale: Musicum, Gymnicum, Equestre." Corbulo's successful campaign in Syria.

210 61 814 Boadicea's victory.

Victory of Suetonius Paulinus. Galba in Spain. [Birth of Pliny the younger, a few years after Tacitus.]

62 815 Death of Burrus.

64

211 65

66

Sofonius Tigellinus succeeds as "Præfectus Cohortibus Prætoriis.' Cf. Tac. Ann. xiv. 57; xv. 37, 72. Sat. i. 155, "Pone Tigellinum," etc.

Nero marries Poppaa. Death of Octavia. Tac. Ann. xiv. 60, 64.

Pallas put to death for his money.

65. Cf. A.D. 48.

Death of Persius, in his 28th year.

Tac. Ann. xiv.

Perse

817 Nero in the theatre. Fires at Rome. Only four re-
gions remaining entire. Tac. Ann. xv. 40.
cution of Christians (c. 44), on whom the blame of
the fire was laid, and who were punished with the
"Tunica Molesta." Sat. i. 156; viii. 235. Suet.
Ner. 16.

818 Piso's conspiracy. Death of Seneca. Tac. Ann. xv.
60. Sat. viii. 211, “Libera si dentur populo suf-
fragia, quis tam Perditus ut dubitet Senecam præ-
ferre Neroni." Sat. x. 15, "Temporibus diris igitur
jussuque Neronis Longinum, et magnos Senecæ præ-
divitis hortos clausit," et seq.

Death of Lucan, in his 26th year. Sat. vii. 79. Tac.
Ann. xv. 70. Suet. Ner. 35.

Death of Poppæa. Tac. Ann. xvi. 6. Sat. viii. 218,
"Sed nec Electræ jugulo se polluit, aut Spartani
Sanguine conjugii."

819 Death of Thrasea Pætus. Tac. Ann. xvi. 21-35.
Martial comes to Rome, æt. 23.

Nero sets out for Greece: meets Vatinius ("Sutrinæ
tabernæ alumnus," Tac. Ann. xv. 34) at Beneven-

tum. Sat. v. 47, "Tu Beneventani Sutoris nomen habentem Siccabis calicem nasorum quatuor." Lubinus places the banishment of Annæus Cornutus in this year. Cf. ad Pers. v. 5.

67 820 Death of Corbulo.

Nero in Greece, celebrates the 211th Olympiad (the Olympiad having been deferred for him, Suet. Ner. 19-22), and adds a musical contest. Sat. viii. 225, "Gaudentis fœdo peregrina ad pulpita cantu Prostitui, Graiæque apium meruisse coronæ."

[Jewish war committed by Nero to Vespasian.]

68 821 Nero returns to Rome. Sat. viii. 230, "Et de marmoreo citharam suspende Colosso."

212 69 822

70

71

Vindex revolts and proclaims Galba. Ib. 221, "Quid enim Verginius armis Debeat ulcisci magis aut cum Vindice Galba."

Galba accepts the empire in April.

Death of Nero in June, in his 31st year.

[Quintilian comes to Rome with Galba, and re-
mains 20 years.]

Vitellius proclaimed, Jan. 2. Tac. Hist. i. 56, 57.
Galba killed, Jan. 15, in his 73d year. Sat. vi. 559,
"Magnus civis obît et formidatus Othoni."
Otho acknowledged. Battle of Bedriacum. Death
of Otho at Brixellum in April, in his 37th year.
Sat. ii. 106, "Bedriaci in campo spolium affectare
Palati."

Vitellius enters Rome in July, and is killed Dec. 21.
Vespasian proclaimed July 1st, æt. 60.

823 Vespasian enters Rome. Titus takes Jerusalem.

824 Triumph of Titus and Vespasian. They passed through

825 Commagene reduced to a province. Sat. vi. 550, "Commagenus Aruspex."

74 827 Expulsion of Philosophers by Vespasian.

75 828

76 829
78 831 Agricola in Britain. Tac. Agric. xviii.

Temple of Peace concluded.
Birth of Hadrian. Cf. A.D. 138.

Suet. Vesp. 9.

Sat. ii. 160.

A. U.C.

832 Death of Vespasian, June 23, in his 70th year.
Titus succeeds. [Eruption of Vesuvius. Death of
Pliny the elder. Cf. Plin. vi. Epist. 16, 20.]

80 833

Fire at Rome.

Temple of Isis, and Capitol, burnt.

Death of Titus, Sept. 13.

Domitian succeeds. Sat. iv. 37, "Flavius Ultimus, et calvo serviret Roma Neroni.

835 Domitian rebuilds the Capitol (Suet. Dom. 5), and patronizes learning. Sat. vii. 1, "Et spes, et ratio

studiorum in Cæsare tantum."

83 836 Domitian's expedition against the Catti and Sarmatæ. Three Vestal virgins punished. Sat. iv. 10, "Sanguine adhuc vivo terram subitura Sacerdos."

84

837 Domitian takes the name of "Germanicus." Receives
the censorship for life. Sat. iv. 12; ii. 121.
Defeat of Galgacus in Britain. Sat. ii. 160, 161, “Do-
mitianus nobiles multos relegavit et optimates occi-
dit." Chron. Euseb. Cf. Sat. iv. 151, seq.

86 839 Domitian institutes the Capitoline Games. Suet. Dom.
4, "Certamen quinquennale triplex, Musicum,
Equestre, Gymnicum." [Cf. A.D. 60.] Sat. vi. 387,
"An Capitolinam deberet Pollio quercum Sperare
et fidibus promittere." Cf. ad Sulpic. 41.
Dacian war. Sat. iv. 111, cum Schol.

217 89

[Birth of Antoninus Pius.]

842 Quintilian teaches at Rome ("Publicam Scholam et Salarium è fisco accepit," Hieron.), Domitian's nephews, among others. Some think Juvenal attended his lectures. Sat. vi. 75, 280; vii. 186, 189.

90 843 Domitian expels the philosophers (cf. A.D. 74). Tac. Agr. 2. (Sat. iii. may perhaps refer to this, "omni bonâ arte in exsilium actâ," cf. 1. 21.)

91

Senecio put to death for writing a book in praise of
Helvidius Priscus. Cf. Sat. v. 36.

Sulpicia's Satire. [Pliny prætor in his 29th year.]

844 Domitian's triumphs over Dacians and Germans. [Sat. vi. 205, "Dacicus et scripto radiat Germanicus auro:" but cf. A.D. 110.]

Cornelia, a Vestal virgin, buried alive. (Vid. Suet. Dom. 8. Plin. iv. Ep. 11. Cf. A.D. 83.) This happened after the death of Julia. Sat. ii. 32.