The luxuries of Asia brought to Rome in the spoils of Antiochus 189 The laws of Lycurgus abrogated for a while at Sparta by Philopœmen 188 Antiochus the Great defeated and killed in Media. About this time flourished Aristophanes of Byzantium, Asclepiades, Tegula, C. Lælius, Aristonymus, Hegesinus, Diogenes the stoic, Critolaus, Massinissa, the Scipios, the Gracchi, Thoas, &c. 187 A war, which continues for one year, between Eumenes and Prusias, till the death of Annibal 184 Philopœmen defeated and killed by Dinocrates 183 Numa’s books found in a stone coffin at Rome 179 Perseus sends his ambassadors to Carthage 175 Ptolemy’s generals defeated by Antiochus, in a battle between Pelusium and mount Cassius. The second Macedonian war 171 The battle of Pydna, and the fall of the Macedonian empire. About this period flourished Attalus the astronomer, Metrodorus, Terence, Crates, Polybius, Pacuvius, Hipparchus, Heraclides, Carneades, Aristarchus, &c. 168 The first library erected at Rome, with books obtained from the plunder of Macedonia 167 Terence’s Andria first acted at Rome 166 Time measured out at Rome by a water-machine, invented by Scipio Nasica, 134 years after the introduction of sun-dials 159 Andriscus the Pseudophilip assumes the royalty of Macedonia 152 Demetrius king of Syria defeated and killed by Alexander Balas 150 The third Punic war begins. Prusias king of Bithynia put to death by his son Nicomedes 149 The Romans make war against the Achæans, which is finished the next year by Mummius 148 Carthage is destroyed by Scipio, and Corinth by ♦Mummius 147 ♦ ‘Mummus’ replaced with ‘Mummius’ Viriathus is defeated by Lælius, in Spain 146 The war of Numantia begins, and continues for eight years 141 The Roman army of 30,000, under Mancinus, is defeated by 4000 Numantines 138 Restoration of learning at Alexandria, and universal patronage offered to all learned men by Ptolemy Physcon. The age of Satyrus, Aristobulus, Lucius Accius, Mnaseas, Antipater, Diodorus the peripatetic, Nicander, Ctesibius, Sarpedon, Micipsa, &c. 137 The famous embassy of Scipio, Metellus, Mummius, and Panætius, into Egypt, Syria, and Greece 136