Eutropius, Breviarium

Eutropius, Breviarium: a Standard history source. Covers AD 98 – 305, with 74 events in chronological order. Text license and provenance included.

TypeStandard history
ViewpointInsider account
Years coveredAD 98 – 305
Events74 events, 41 placed on the map
AuthorEutropius
Original titleBreviarium ab urbe condita

Regions: Southern Europe 52 · West Asia 11 · Western Europe 10 · Egypt & North Africa 1

Events

YearPlaceEventPassage
AD 98RomeNerva adopts Trajan and dies in Rome after a reign of one year, four months and eight days.Eutr. 8.1
AD 98CologneTrajan is acclaimed emperor at Agrippina in Gaul (Colonia Agrippinensis, Cologne).Eutr. 8.2
AD 101 – 106다키아(도나우 건너편)Trajan defeats Decebalus and makes Dacia, across the Danube, a province, with a circumference of 1,000 miles.Eutr. 8.2
AD 114아르메니아Trajan retakes Armenia, held by Parthia, and kills Parthamasiris, who ruled it.Eutr. 8.3
AD 116CtesiphonTrajan conquers and takes Seleucia, Ctesiphon and Babylon.Eutr. 8.3
AD 116 – 117인도 국경·홍해Trajan advances to the frontier of India and the Red Sea, creating three provinces, Armenia, Assyria and Mesopotamia, and then makes Arabia a province too.Eutr. 8.3
AD 117SelinusOn his way back, Trajan dies of dysentery at Seleucia in Isauria. He was the only emperor buried within the city, and his ashes were placed beneath the column in the Forum.Eutr. 8.5
AD 117아시리아·메소포타미아·아르메니아Hadrian withdraws the armies from the three provinces Trajan had added and makes the Euphrates the empire's frontier, but friends dissuade him from giving up Dacia.Eutr. 8.6
AD 138캄파니아When Hadrian dies in Campania at over sixty, his successor Antoninus overcomes the Senate's opposition and obtains his deification.Eutr. 8.7
AD 161LoriumAntoninus Pius dies at his villa at Lorium, 12 miles from Rome, and is deified.Eutr. 8.8
AD 165셀레우키아(아시리아)Verus stays around Antioch and Armenia and wins great successes through his generals, taking Seleucia. The Latin text puts the captives at 400,000, while Watson's English translation says 40,000.Eutr. 8.10
AD 169베네티아(콘코르디아→알티눔 길)Verus, sitting beside his brother Marcus in a carriage from Concordia to Altinum, suddenly dies of apoplexy.Eutr. 8.10
AD 169RomeWith the treasury empty, Marcus, to avoid taxing the provinces and the Senate, sells the imperial gold vessels, crystal cups, silk garments and jewels at auction in Trajan's Forum for two months.Eutr. 8.13
AD 172 – 175CarnuntumMarcus holds out three full years at Carnuntum, ends the Marcomannic War, in which the Quadi, Vandals, Sarmatians and Suebi joined, and frees the Pannonians.Eutr. 8.13
AD 176RomeMarcus again holds a triumph in Rome together with his son Commodus, whom he had already made Caesar.Eutr. 8.13
AD 192로마(사료에 도시 없음)Commodus dies suddenly, with rumors that he was strangled or poisoned, and is condemned as an "enemy of mankind."Eutr. 8.15
AD 193로마(사료에 도시 없음)The elderly Pertinax, appointed by the Senate, is killed on the 80th day of his reign by a mutiny of the praetorian guards and a plot by Julianus.Eutr. 8.16
AD 193밀비우스 다리(로마 북쪽)Julianus is defeated by Severus at the Milvian Bridge and dies on the Palatine after a seven-month reign.Eutr. 8.17
AD 193CyzicusSeverus kills Pescennius Niger, who revolted in Egypt and Syria, at Cyzicus.Eutr. 8.18
AD 195 – 199파르티아·아라비아·아디아베네Severus defeats Parthia, inland Arabia and Adiabene, makes Arabia a province, and takes the titles Parthicus, Arabicus and Adiabenicus.Eutr. 8.18
AD 197LugdunumClodius Albinus, who styled himself Caesar in Gaul, is defeated and killed at Lugdunum.Eutr. 8.18
AD 208 – 211브리타니아Severus builds a wall from sea to sea to protect the provinces he had gained. Its length is 133 miles in the Latin text and 32 miles in Watson's English translation.Eutr. 8.19
AD 211EboracumSeverus dies in old age at Eboracum (York), leaving two sons, Bassianus and Geta; Geta was declared a public enemy and soon died.Eutr. 8.19
AD 216RomeCaracalla builds splendid baths in Rome (the Baths of Antoninus), but has nothing else worth recalling.Eutr. 8.20
AD 217EdessaCaracalla dies near Edessa in Osrhoene while preparing a Parthian campaign and is buried with a state funeral.Eutr. 8.20
AD 218불명Macrinus and his son Diadumenianus are killed together in a soldiers' revolt.Eutr. 8.21
AD 222로마(사료에 도시 없음)Elagabalus is killed with his mother in a soldiers' riot.Eutr. 8.22
AD 232페르시아Alexander wages war on Persia and gloriously defeats King Xerxes.Eutr. 8.23
AD 235갈리아Alexander dies in Gaul in a soldiers' riot. He was devoted to his mother.Eutr. 8.23
AD 238AquileiaMaximinus, the first emperor raised by the army, is killed at Aquileia by Pupienus after being abandoned by his men, and his son dies with him.Eutr. 9.1
AD 242 – 244동방·파르티아The boy Gordian opens the doors of the temple of Janus, goes east, and defeats in a great battle the Persians who were trying to invade.Eutr. 9.2
AD 244CircesiumFor Gordian, killed by Philip's treachery on his way back, the soldiers raise a tomb 20 miles from Circesium and carry his remains to Rome.Eutr. 9.2
AD 248RomeUnder Philip and his son, the thousandth anniversary of Rome's founding is celebrated grandly with games and spectacles.Eutr. 9.3
AD 249VeronaPhilip and his son are killed by soldiers, the father at Verona and the son in Rome.Eutr. 9.3
AD 251야만족 땅(도나우 건너)Decius and his son die together in barbarian territory, and the father is deified.Eutr. 9.4
AD 253InteramnaGallus and his son are killed at Interamna on the way to attack Aemilianus, who had revolted in Moesia. The reign was famous only for plague.Eutr. 9.5
AD 260메소포타미아Valerian is defeated by King Shapur in Mesopotamia, then taken prisoner and dies in old age as a slave.Eutr. 9.7
AD 260RavennaThe Germans invade as far as Ravenna.Eutr. 9.7
AD 260MursaGallienus kills Ingenuus, who had put on the purple, at Mursa.Eutr. 9.8
AD 260 – 265TarracoThe Germans flood as far as Spain and take the renowned city of Tarraco.Eutr. 9.8
AD 260 – 269갈리아In that desperate time Postumus, a man of lowly origin in Gaul, puts on the purple, rules for ten years and restores the devastated provinces.Eutr. 9.9
AD 262 – 266CtesiphonOdaenathus defeats Persia and defends Syria, recovers Mesopotamia and advances as far as Ctesiphon.Eutr. 9.10
AD 267 – 268그리스·마케도니아·폰토스·아시아The Goths overrun Greece, Macedonia, Pontus and Asia, and Dacia is also lost.Eutr. 9.8
AD 268MilanGallienus is killed at Milan along with his brother Valerian.Eutr. 9.11
AD 269MogontiacumPostumus is killed by his soldiers after refusing to let them plunder the rebellious city of Mogontiacum.Eutr. 9.9
AD 269일리리쿰·마케도니아Claudius wins a great battle over the Goths who were ravaging Illyricum and Macedonia.Eutr. 9.11
AD 271CologneVictorinus is killed at Agrippina through the plot of a clerk.Eutr. 9.9
AD 271BurdigalaTetricus, the senator and governor of Aquitania, is chosen emperor by the army in his absence and puts on the purple at Burdigala.Eutr. 9.10
AD 271RomeIn Rome, mint workers counterfeit coins, kill the treasury official Felicissimus and revolt; Aurelian suppresses them with extreme severity and executes several nobles.Eutr. 9.14
AD 271 – 275RomeAurelian surrounds Rome with a stronger wall and builds a temple of the Sun filled with gold and jewels.Eutr. 9.15
AD 271 – 275다키아·모이시아With Illyricum and Moesia ravaged, Aurelian judges Dacia indefensible, moves Roman citizens to Moesia and calls that land the new Dacia.Eutr. 9.15
AD 272AntiochAurelian captures Zenobia, who held the East after Odaenathus's death, near Antioch without a major battle.Eutr. 9.13
AD 274CatalauniAurelian defeats Tetricus at Catalaunum in Gaul. Unable to bear his army's mutiny, Tetricus himself hands over his army and begs rescue with a line of Virgil.Eutr. 9.13
AD 274RomeAurelian enters Rome and celebrates a triumph as the recoverer of East and West, with Tetricus and Zenobia walking before his chariot.Eutr. 9.13
AD 275CaenophruriumAt a place called Caenophrurium on the old paved road between Constantinople and Heraclea, Aurelian is killed by soldier friends who believed a forged list.Eutr. 9.15
AD 277 – 278갈리아Probus recovers Gaul from the barbarians by victory and suppresses Saturninus in the East and Proculus and Bonosus at Agrippina.Eutr. 9.17
AD 280SirmiumProbus sets his soldiers to work planting vineyards on Mount Alma near Sirmium and Mount Aureus in Upper Moesia, then hands them to the provincials.Eutr. 9.17
AD 282SirmiumProbus is killed at Sirmium in a soldiers' revolt, inside an iron tower.Eutr. 9.17
AD 283CtesiphonCarus attacks and defeats Persia and takes the renowned cities of Coche (Seleucia) and Ctesiphon.Eutr. 9.18
AD 283티그리스 강변 진영Carus, camped by the Tigris, is killed by a thunderbolt from the gods.Eutr. 9.18
AD 284페르시아에서 돌아오는 길Numerian, carried in a litter because of an eye ailment, is killed through a plot by his father-in-law Aper, and the stench of the body reveals it only days later.Eutr. 9.18
AD 284페르시아에서 돌아온 군대의 진영The victorious army, having lost Carus to lightning and Numerian to a plot, hands the throne to Diocletian, from Dalmatia.Eutr. 9.19
AD 285MargumDiocletian defeats the universally hated Carinus in a great battle at Margus. Carinus is betrayed by his army.Eutr. 9.20
AD 285 – 286갈리아When Gallic peasants rise under the name Bagaudae, Diocletian sends Maximian as Caesar, who puts them down in light fighting.Eutr. 9.20
AD 286GesoriacumCarausius, tasked at Bononia with clearing Frankish and Saxon pirates, is suspected of withholding plunder and ordered executed by Maximian, so he puts on the purple and seizes Britain.Eutr. 9.21
AD 293제국 전체Diocletian raises Maximian to Augustus and makes Constantius and Galerius Caesars. Constantius marries Herculius's stepdaughter Theodora, and Galerius Diocletian's daughter Valeria.Eutr. 9.22
AD 296브리타니아Allectus, who killed Carausius, rules three years and is put down by the praetorian prefect Asclepiodotus, so Britain is recovered after ten years.Eutr. 9.22
AD 297 – 298AlexandriaDiocletian forces Achilleus, besieged in Alexandria, to surrender after about eight months and kills him, then carries out harsh executions and confiscations in Egypt.Eutr. 9.23
AD 297 – 298아프리카Maximian Augustus subdues the Quinquegentiani in Africa and brings peace.Eutr. 9.23
AD 297CallinicumGalerius meets Narseh between Callinicum and Carrhae but, with a small force against a large army, is defeated.Eutr. 9.24
AD 298LingonesCaesar Constantius, driven back by barbarians at Lingones, is hauled up the wall by ropes, but when his army arrives he cuts down 60,000 Alamanni within six hours.Eutr. 9.23
AD 298대아르메니아Galerius gathers forces from Illyricum and Moesia, wins a great victory over Narseh in Greater Armenia, and seizes his wife, sisters, children and treasures.Eutr. 9.25
AD 305NicomediaOn the same day Diocletian at Nicomedia and Herculius at Milan lay aside the imperial insignia and become private citizens.Eutr. 9.27
AD 305SalonaDiocletian spends his old age as a private citizen at a villa near Salonae, dies there and is deified.Eutr. 9.28

Text license and provenance

Eutropius, Breviarium, tr. J. S. Watson (1886); Latin text thelatinlibrary.com

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