the Senate-house | | settles in Rome. (44). | | | | Cicero killed (43). | | | | Virgilius. | | | | Antonius and | | Cleopatra defeated | | (31). | | Augustus, Roman | 30 | Diodorus Siculus, of Agyrium in Emperor (30). | | Sicily, historian, gives some account | | of the oldest music of the Egyptians Horace. | | and Greeks. | | Maecenas. | | | | Titus Livius, | 10 | Vitruvius (Pollio M.), born in historian. | | Italy, architect, writes on musical | | subjects. Ovidius, poet. | | | A. D.| Hermann in Germany | 1 | Gradual decay of the Greek Music. defeats | | Varus (9). | | The Romans | | The first Christian hymns (St. under the Emperor | | Matthew, chap. XXVI., v. 30; St. Claudius | | Mark, chap. XIV., v. 26; I Corinth., invade England | | chap. XIV., v. 15; Ephes., chap. V., (40). | | v. 19; Coloss., chap. III., v. 16; St. London founded | | James, chap. V., v. 13, etc.). by the Romans | | (49). | | | 50 | Pliny the Elder, born at Verona in | | the year 27, died in 79. Several books | | on music. | | Destruction of | 60 | Nero, Roman Emperor from A.D. 54 Jerusalem by | | to 68, musician, singer, flutist, Titus (70). | | lyrist. He sings and plays in public, Herculaneum | | and is said to have maintained 5000 and Pompeii | | musicians in his pay. destroyed by | | an eruption of | | Vesuvius (79). | | Tacitus, historian. | 80 | Plutarchus, born at Chaeronea in Juvenal, poet. | | Boeotia, about the year 40, biographer Martialis, poet. | | and philosopher. Several musical Pliny the | | essays. Younger. | | Trajan, Roman | | Emperor (98). | | | 100 | Ptolemaeus (Claudius) born at | | Pelusium in Egypt, about the year 70, Introduction of | | mathematician, geographer, astronomer,