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their democracy, and first Patra and Dvina shew-ed the example.

The Tarentine war with Pyrrhus, king of Epirus,against the lloinans begins.

279 The Gauls wage war against the Macedonians.

278 The battle near Asculum between the Homans andPyrrhus, in which the Romans got a slight advan-tage.

276 Rrenuus, the Gallic king, defeats the Macedonians ina great battle, in which Sostbenes, the Macedo-nian king, was killed.

275 The inhabitants of /Eginum and Bura, and also theCeraunians, join the Acluvan league.

273 Pyrrhus entirely defeated by the Romans under their■consul Curius Deutatus in a very great bat tie,in which the latter killed 30,000 and took 12,000prisoners.

272 Pyrrhus, king of Epire, recruiting his army, goesagainst Antignnus Gonalus, and takes all hiskingdom from him.

971 Pyrrhus slain at Argos, and Antigonus recovers hiskingdom.

269 Athens taken by Antigonus Gonalus, king of Mace-donia.

•4267 The Samnites, I.ucanians, and Brutians, who hadtaken part with Pyrrhus, entirely subdued bythe Homans.

Tarentum delivered up to the Romans by Molo, theEpirol general.

264 The Caracini subdued by the Romans.

'Pile first coining of silver at Home.

263 Asculum, the capital of Picenmn, taken by the Ro-mans, upon which the whole-nation of the Pi-centes give themselves up to Rome. Antiocliu--,the Syrian king, entirely overthrew the Gauls'that were settled in Asia; by which lie deliveredthe neighbouring princes from their frequent in-cursions. For ibis victory he is surnamed Soter,i. e. r l he Saviour.

261 Tlie Salentines and Sarcinales conquered by the Ro-mans. The conquest of these two nations madeRome mistress of all the countries in Italy, fromthe most remote part of Hetruria to tile Ioniansea, and from the Tyrrhenian sea to the Adriatic.

About this time flourished Berosus, llermachus, He-lenas, CTmias, Ariitctimus, &c.

239 The first Punic war'begins, and continues 23 years.

The chronology of the Arundelian Marbles com-posed.

258 The Romans successful against the Carthaginian in-terest in Sicily.

257 Agrigentuni in Sicily taken from the Carthaginiansby the Romans, after a very obstinate siege ofseven months, The gaining of this place costthe Romans and their allies upwards of 30,000men.

236 The colossus of Rhodes thrown down by an earth-quake.

255 The Carthaginian fleet defeated by Duilius the Ro-man consul.

233 The Carthaginians desiring assistance of the Egyp-tians against the Romans, are denied by Pto-lemy.

Tlie Carthaginians driven out of Sicily by Atlilius,the Roman consul.

251 The great sea-tight near Ileraclea in Sicily betweenthe Homans and the Carthaginians, in which thelatter were defeated with the loss of 30 ships de-stroy ed, and 63 taken. The Homans had 24sunk. After this the Romans sailed for Carthage,and took Clupea, or Apis, which they fortified,and made a key to Africa, ravaged the country,and returned with immense booty, and 20,000pri-oner.s.

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3754 250 Attilius, now proconsul of the Roman army, besieges

Adis, ,t,r Adda, not far from Carthage, and en-gages the Carthaginian army, kills 17,000, andtakes 5000, and IS elephants. This ■ victorybrought the subjection of 80 towns to the Ro-mans, of which Utica was one. Then Attilius(Regains) besieged Tunis, (but nine miles fromCarthago,) ami took it. He afterwards investedCarthage; but offering them conditions too hardfor the senate to accept, they put their army un-der the command of Xantippu«, a Lacedemonianauxiliary, who engaging the Romans, routs thementirely, cuts off about 30,000, and takes Attiliusprisoner.

Aratus persuades the people of Sicyon to join theAcluean league.

About this time nourished Cleanthes, Homer Junior,Mauelho,. Timcr.us, Callimachus, Zoiius, Duris,Neanthes, Clesibius, Sosibius, Hieronymus, lian-no, Laodicc, Lysias, Arioburaanes, &c.

3755 249 Great naval victory of the Romans over the Cartha-

ginians, off Cape liermea; in which the formersunk 104 ships, took 30, and killed 13,000 men.Great storm which destroyed 290 Roman ships outof 370 ; with (lie crews army, and riches ol Africawhich they had taken.

3757 247 The Romans surprise and plunder several towns and

villages on the eastern coast of Africa.

3758 246 The Romans take llimcra in Sicily, and Li para, by

storm, and put most of the inhabitants to thesword.

3760 244 Asdrubal, the Carthaginian general, defeated bv Me-

lellus near Panormus in Sicily with the loss of20,000 men killed.

3761 243 Regulus, the Roman consul, put to death by the

Carthaginians with the most excruciati -g torments,for persuading the Romans to continue the war.

3762 £42 Aratus persuades Tnezene, Epidaur-us, and Megala-

polis, to join tlie Achaean league.

3766 238 The Roman privateers gain a considerable victory

over the Carthaginian fleet, and arc afterwardsdashed in pieces by a storm. The strong citvand forts of Ervx taken from the Romans by Ha-milcar.

3703 236 The Romans attack the Carthaginian fleet, consisting

of 400 sail, overcome ami defeat it, take 73 ship;,,sink 123, and disperse the rest; then advance toEryx, and cut off 2000 Carthaginians, and so putan end to the first Punic war.

The Carthaginians by agreement evacuate Sicily. Inthis war the Homans lost 700 ships, and the Car-thaginians 500.

The whole island of Sicily declared a Roman pro-vince.

The revolting Fuiisci subdued by the Romans.

3769 235 Livius and Andronicus reform the Roman stage bv

introducing the Greciau manner of acting atRome.

.3770 234 Birth of Ennius the poet at Rude*.

Ilamilcar, the Carthaginian general, swears his sonHannibal, a boy of but nine years of age, by lay-ing his hand upon the altar, that lie would be aneternal enemy to Rome.

3771 233 The Boii in conjunction with the Falisci defeat the

Romans ; but are soon alter reduced.

The Romans oblige the Carthaginians to give up theisland of Sardinia.

3772 232 The Ligurians defeated by the Roman consul Cor-

nelius, in which the former had 24,000 killed.

3773 231 The Boii and Ligurians overcome “by Lentulus die

Roman consul.

The Corsicans, at the instigation of the Carthaginians,revolt; but the island is soou after reduced byLentulus.

Seleucus,