15 U. C. Varr. 768

A. D. 15-641.

Drusus Cæsar C. Norbanus Flaccus Coss.

The death of Augustus Aug. 19 A. D. 14 was in the fifth

month before these Tables begin. The succession of Tiberius Jber (26

and his first transactions are described in Tacitus and Dio.
Tiberius entered his 56th year Nov. 19 A. D. 14) The Pan-
nonian and German revolts, which commenced in the autumn
of 14, are suppressed, the Pannonian by Drusus, the German
by Germanicus, who carries on war against Arminius in the
spring of A. D. 15.

Tiberius pontifex maximus March 10 A. D. 15.

Birth of Vitellius on the 6th or the 24th of September
A. D. 15.

16 769 T. Statilius Sisenna Taurus L. Scribonius Libo. Tiberii 3 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 18 from June 27.

Third year of Germanicus in Germany. Recalled by Tibe-
rius. Death of Scribonius Libo, followed by edicts for ex-
pelling the mathematici and magi from Italy.

A pretended Agrippa. Agrippa had been put to death by
Tiberius in A. D. 14.

Rise of Sejanus.

17 770 Ol. 199. C. Cæcilius Rufus L. Pomponius Flaccus. Tiberii 4 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 19 from June 27.

Triumph of Germanicus.

East. Earthquake in Asia.

After which he is sent into the War in Africa against Tacfarinas. (Apollonius of Tyana was a youth between 18 and 20 at the death of Archelaus, and Archelaus was called to Rome in 15 and died in 17.)

18 771 Tib. Cæsar Augustus III Germanicus Cæsar II. Tiberii 5 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 20 from June 27.

Germanicus in January of this year is in Greece.

Strabo still writes, now in advanced age. He mentions in
libb. 12, 13 the earthquake which happened in A. D. 17.

Valerius Maximus accompanied Sex. Pompeius to Asia.
Death of Ovid æt. 60, of Livy æt. 76.

19 772 M. Junius Silanus L. Norbanus Balbus. Tiberii 6 from Aug. 19. trib. pot. 21 from June 27.

Germanicus visited Egypt on his return to Syria: he died at Antioch in his 34th year Oct. 9 A. D. 19.

Campaign of Drusus in Germany, to whom Maroboduus surrenders. Artaxias had been appointed in 18 king of Armenia by Germanicus. The Jews are banished from Italy.

L. Seneca at this period is about 25 years of age. His father M. Seneca is now about 80.

20 773 M. Valerius Messala M. Aurelius Cotta. Tiberii 7 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 22 from June 27.

Agrippina the widow of Germanicus arrives at Rome in the beginning of the year. Drusus after the Megalesia, which were celebrated April 4-9, returns to Illyricum. Trial and death of Piso. During that trial Drusus returned from Illyricum.

Tacfarinas renews the war in Africa.

21 774 Ol. 200 Tib. Cæsar Augustus IV Drusus Cæsar II. Tiberii 8 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 23 from June 27.

Tiberius retires into Campania. Junius Blæsus is sent against Tacfarinas. Commotions in Gaul are suppressed.

C. Lutorius Priscus is condemned at the end of this year; a poet who had composed an elegy upon Germanicus, and written verses upon Drusus.

22 775 Dec. Haterius Agrippa C. Sulpicius Galba. from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 24 from June 27.

Tiberii 9

The tribunician power is granted to Drusus, son of Tiberius. The African war continues.

23 776 C. Asinius Pollio C. Antistius Veter. Tiberii 10 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 25 from June 27.

Influence of Sejanus. His rise commenced in A. D. 16. Death of Drusus.

24 777 Ser. Cornelius Cethegus L. Vitellius Varro. Tiberii 11 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 26 from June 27.

End of the African war. Ptolemy king of Mauretania, who reigned in the time of Strabo, assisted the Romans in this year. His father Juba had now been dead about 20 years, according to Josephus.

Cassius Severus is an exile at Seriphos. He had been banished to Crete about A.D. 8. C. Plinius Secundus of Verona was born in the beginning of this year.

25 778 Ol. 201 M. Asinius Agrippa Cossus Cornelius Lentulus. Tiberii 12 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 27 from June 27. Death of Cremutius Cordus the historian.

Votienus Montanus of Narbonne, the orator, is banished to the Balearic islands, where he died about A. D. 28.

26 779 Cn. Lentulus Gætulicus C. Calvisius Sabinus. Tiberii 13 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 28 from June 27. Successful campaign of Sabinus in Thrace. Tiberius withdraws into Campania.

Death of Q. Haterius the orator.

27 780 M. Licinius Crassus Frugi L. Calpurnius Piso. Tiberii 14 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 29 from June 27.

An amphitheatre fell at Fidena, in which 50,000 persons

Lu. 311.

Ti

ing.4.0.29 15 a

Tiberius

perished, according to Tacitus, or 20,000 according to Sue-
tonius.

Tiberius retires to Capreæ.

Tiberii 15 from

28 781 Ap. Junius Silanus P. Silius Nerva.
Aug. 19, trib. pot. 30 from June 27.
Death of Julia the granddaughter of Augustus, after an
exile of 20 years. War with the Frisii, a people beyond the
Rhine. Agrippina the daughter of Germanicus is married to
Domitius. Nero was the issue of this marriage in A. D. 37.
[The Baptism according to Epiphanius, who places the
Nativity at January 6 B. C. 2, and the Baptism at Nov. 8
A. D. 28.]

29 782 Ol. 202 L. Rubellius Geminus C. Fufius Geminus.
berii 16 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 31 from June 27.
Death of Livia at the age of 86. Her son Tiberius is now
in his 70th year.

[The Passion is placed in this year by many authors; by
Lactantius, Augustine, Sulpicius, Ídatius, Fast. apud Noris.,
the Catalogue Pont. Rom. apud Bucherium, by Origen, Hie-
ronymus and Tertullian. It is most probable that the Nati-
vity was in B. C. 5, that the Ministry extended to a fourth
Passover, and that the Crucifixion and Ascension were in
A. D. 29. See F. Rom. vol. 1 p. 12-15 A. D. 29.]

30 783 M. Vinicius L. Cassius Longinus. Tiberii 17 from Aug.
19, trib. pot. 32 from June 27.

[The Passion is referred to this year by Africanus.]

Asinius Gallus the orator, son of Asinius Pollio, is imprisoned.

31 784 Tiberius Cæsar Augustus V. L. Elius Sejanus. Tiberii
18 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 33 from June 27.

Fall of Sejanus. His death is fixed by Tacitus to Oct. 18
A. D. 31, eight years after the death of Drusus, six before the
death of Tiberius. He had been in favour 16 years.

[The Passion according to Prosper and the author of the
Martyrdom of St. Paul; and to Epiphanius who allows three
Passovers after the Baptism, and places the Crucifixion at
March 20 A. D. 31.]

Valerius Maximus wrote IX. 11, 4 extern. soon after the
death of Sejanus.

32 785 Cn. Domitius Ahenobarbus Furius Camillus Scribonianus.
Tiberii 19 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 34 from June 27.

Birth of Otho.

[The Passion is placed in March of the 18th year of Tiberius by the Paschal Chronicle, where the times are disposed in this manner; the Nativity is at Dec. 25 B. C. 3, the Bap

tism at the age of 30y 13d is at Jan. 6 A. D. 29, the Crucifixion at March 23 A. D. 32. For this author anticipated the years of Tiberius, and reckoned them to begin from March 21, to adapt them to his years of the world. See F. Rom. vol. 1 p. 16. Hieronymus and Cassiodorus also refer the Passion to A. D. 32.]

L. Junius Gallio is in disgrace with Tiberius. He adopted

Novatus the eldest son of M. Seneca after A. D. 41.

33 786 Ol. 203 Serv. Sulpicius Galba L. Cornelius Sulla Felix. Tiberii 20 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 35 from June 27.

Agrippina (who had been banished to Pandataria) and her son Drusus are put to death.

[Eusebius places the Passion at the year A. D. 33, the spring

of the Eusebian year 2048.]

Death of Cassius Severus the orator.

His works were pro

scribed, but permitted again by Caligula to be read. Death of Asinius Gallus, 3 years after his exile.

34 787 L. Vitellius Paulus Fabius Persicus.

Aug. 19, trib. pot. 36 from June 27.

Tiberii 21 from

A. Persius Flaccus the poet is born in Etruria Dec. 4 A. D. 34.

35 788 C. Cestius Gallus M. Servilius Nonianus. Tiberii 22 from Aug. 19, trib. pot. 37 from June 27.

Philo Judæus is mentioned at this date by Eusebius.

36 789 Sex. Papinius Allenius Q. Plautius.

Aug. 19, trib. pot. 38 from June 27.

Tiberii 23 from

Death of Thrasyllus. See F. H. III A. D. 14 Greek authors No 244.

37 790 Ol. 204 Cn. Acerronius Proculus C. Pontius Nigrinus. Death of Tiberius March 16 in his 78th year. He reigned 22y 6m 264. Caligula succeeds in his 25th year. Tiberius son of Drusus is slain by order of Caligula about November. Nero born. Nero through his mother was the fifth in descent from Antony the triumvir.

38 791. M. Aquilius Julianus P. Nonius Asprenas. Caligula 2 from March 16, trib. pot. 2.

39

Cotys Polemo and other kings are appointed by Caligula. Birth of Josephus. He was 56 in the 13th year of Domitian, which coincides with his birth in 38 at the close of the first year of Caligula.

792 C. Cæsar Augustus Germanicus II L. Apronius Cæsianus. Caligula 3 from March 16, trib. pot. 3.

Herod Antipas Tetrarch of Galilee is deposed and banished

by Caligula, and his dominions are given to Agrippa. The
43rd year of his reign is marked upon two coins. But, if the
43rd year was current in A. D. 39, the first year began in
B. C. 4, and the death of his father Herod is carried back to
the spring of B. C. 4.

Apion of Alexandria flourished in the reign of Caligula.
He was at Rome with Philo in this year. Demetrius the cynic,
the friend of Seneca, of Thrasea, and of Apollonius Tyaneus,
is already eminent in the reign of Caligula.

Domitius Afer is in danger from Caligula. He escaped by submission. L. Seneca, now about 45 years of age, is also in danger.

40 793 C. Cæsar Augustus Germanicus III solus. Caligulæ 4 from March 16, trib. pot. 4.

Expedition of Caligula to the ocean. He returned and had an ovation on his birthday Aug. 31.

Agrippa is at Rome after the return of Caligula, and intercedes for the Jews. The letters of Petronius arrive a short time before the death of Caligula; for the mandate of Caligula, which was 3 months in its passage, reached Petronius 27 days after the death of Caligula was known at Antioch. The transactions of Petronius in Judæa are fixed by these incidents to A. D. 40.

Ptolemy king of Mauretania is slain. He had reigned 35 years.

Philo Judæus, a native of Alexandria, now an old man, is ambassador to Caligula in behalf of the Jews. He is opposed by Apion, who is described in F. H. III Greek authors No 246.

Lucan is brought to Rome. M. Annæus Lucanus the nephew of the philosopher Seneca was born Nov. 3 A. D. 39.

41 794 Ol. 205 C. Cæsar Augustus Germanicus IV Cn. Sentius Saturninus.

Caligula is slain Jan. 24 in his 29th year. He had reigned 3y 10m 8d, his reign being reckoned exclusive of the day of his death.

Claudius at his election is in his 50th year. He promotes
Agrippa and other kings. Agrippa at this time received Judæa
and Samaria.

Success of Galba and Gabinius in Germany. Birth of Titus
Dec. 30 A. D. 41.

Senecæ de ira libri tres. Soon after the death of Caligula,
and before the exile of Seneca. His exile is at the close of
He was banished to Corsica.

this year.

42 795 Ti. Claudius Cæsar Augustus II C. Cæcina Largus.

Claudii 2 from Jan. 25, trib. pot. 2.

Paulinus and Geta conquer the Moors.
Deaths of Pætus and Arria.

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