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Embassy of Ptolemy Philadelphus, 273 BCE

15. C. Fabiō Liciniō C. Claudiō Canīnā cōnsulibus: 273 BCE (ablative absolute with form of esse assumed. AG 419a).

annō urbis conditae quadringentēsimō sexāgēsimō prīmō: 293 BCE. The conflict between this and the consular date just given suggest Eutropius may have written octagesimo, not sexagesimo. 

lēgātī Alexandrīnī ā Ptolemaeō missī: in 273 BCE Ptolemy II of Egypt recognized Rome’s emergence as a "great power" by requesting and gaining a grant of amicitia or diplomatic recognition (Bird; LS amicitia II.A).

vēnēre: syncopated form of vēnērunt

petierant: syncopated form of petiverant

War with the Picentes, 269-268 BCE

16. Q. Ogulniō C. Fābiō Pīctōre cōnsulibus: 269 BCE.

Pīcentēs: The Picentes lived across the Apennines east of Rome and had been bound to Rome by treaty from 299 BCE. After a brief but bitter struggle (269–268 BCE) a group of them was relocated near Salerno and Paestum in what had previously been Lucanian territory (Bird).

commovēre: syncopated form of commovērunt

ab īnsequentibus cōnsulibus P. Semprōniō Ap. Claudiō: Publius Sempronius Sophus and Appius Claudius Russus were consuls in the following year, 268 BCE.

dē hīs: "over them"; the regular expression used for a triumph celebrated for a victory over an enemy (Hazzard). For more information on triumphs, see triumphs.

Arīminus: Ariminum (Rimini) on the Adriatic in Gallia Cispadana became a Latin colony in 268 BCE (Bird).

Beneventum: Beneventum was originally called Malventum and was a fortress town in the territory of the Hirpini Samnites. In 268 BCE it, too, became a Latin colony but the Romans changed its unpropitious name (Bird).