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Consuls: Quintus Marcius Philippe (for the 2nd time, plebeian) and Gnaeus Servilius Zepion (patricius); proconsul: Aulus Gostilius Mantsin (in Epirus); praetors: Gaius Decimius (Flav) (for foreign affairs), Gaius Marcius Figul, Gaius Sulpicius Gall, Mark Claudius Marcellus, Publius Fonteius Capitoulus and Servius Cornelius Lentulus (in Sicily); Proprietor: Appius Clausususus Centiusius Centiusiusiusiusiusiusiusiusiusiusius Cortiusiusiusiusius (indius Cortius) and Públius Públius Públius Públius Públius Públius (inus)
Winter by Perseus of Macedon came to Acarnania on Stratus, but the city was occupied by the legate Popilius. Spring – Consul Quintus Martius invades Macedonia through passages past Lake Ascurid. Perseus was frightened and fled to Pydna, but then he came to his senses and returned to Dius when the Romans withdrew to Philae. Gentius, king of the Illyrian tribe of the Labeatus, made an alliance with Perseus for 300 talents. Having received some money, Gentius attacked Illyria and imprisoned the Roman ambassadors. Perseus offered an alliance to the Gauls who lived beyond Eastr, but refused to pay them, and the Gauls left.
Antiochus IV besieged Alexandria, but unsuccessfully, and conquered the rest of Egypt. Antiochus made Ptolemy Philometor king of Memphis and left, leaving the garrison at Pelusia. Philometor reconciled with Ptolemy Fiscon with the help of their sister Cleopatra II. The brothers ruled together. Antiochus demanded to give him Cyprus and Pelusius. Philometor sent ambassadors to Rome. Antiochus sent a fleet to Cyprus.
King Perseus of Macedonia asks the Seleucid king Antiochus IV to unite with him against Rome, convincing him of the danger that the Roman Republic poses to all Hellenistic monarchies. Antiochus IV, busy with Egyptian affairs, does not answer the embassy of Perseus about an alliance against Rome.

Died.
Quintus Ennius – Roman poet;
Marcus Claudius Marcellus was a Roman politician.

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