Birth of Horace, on his father's estate,
near Venusia, Dec. 8; vi. Id. Dec.
L. Aurelius Cotta, L. Manlius Tor-
quatus (Coss.)

(Virgil was 5 years older, born u. c. 684.)

L. Julius Cæsar, C. Marcius Figulus
(Coss.)

M. Tullius Cicero, C. Antonius (Coss.)
Catilinarian conspiracy; birth of Au-
gustus; Orbilius comes to Rome.

D. Junius Silanus, L. Licinius Muræna
(Coss.)

M. Pupius Piso Calpurnianus, M. Val-
erius Messala (Coss.)

L. Afranius, Q. Cæcilius Metellus
Celer (Coss.)

First Triumvirate of Pompey, Cæsar,

and Crassus.

Adventure of Horace when a child (?).

695 59 6 C. Julius Cæsar, M. Calpurnius Bibu

lus (Coss.)

Birth of Livy.

L. Calpurnius Piso, Cæsonius A.
Gabinius (Coss.)

Exile of Cicero.

P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, Q:

Cæc. Metellus Nepos (Coss.)

Sueton. in Vit.
Carm. III. xxi. 1.
Epod. xiii. 6.
Sat. II. i. 34, 5.
Carm. IV. xi. 2.

Carm. 111. iv. 9 20.

Recall of Cicero. Catullus thirty
years old.

Cn. Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus,
L. M. Philippus (Coss.)
Cæsar in Gaul.

Cn. Pompeius Magnus II., M. Lici-
nius Crassus II. (Coss.)

Virgil, aged sixteen, assumes the toga
virilis. Death of Lucretius the
same day, aged forty-one.
Catullus mentions Pompey's second
Consulate.

L. Domitius Ænobarbus, App. Clau-
dius Pulcher (Coss.)

War of Crassus against the Parthians.

Cn. Domitius Calvinus, M. Valerius
Messala (Coss.)

Horace in Rome for his education.
Defeat and death of Crassus.

Donat. Vit. Virgil.

C. 2.

Sat. 1. vi. 71-6.

725 29 36 C. Cæsar V., Sex. Appuleius (Coss.)