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Events

Antiochus IV Epiphanes invades Egypt and installs Ptolemy Physcon as king.

Perseus of Macedon repulses a Roman army commanded by A. Hostilius Mancinus in Thessaly

Parchment is invented, in Pergamum .

The earliest known paved streets appear in Rome .

Crates Of Mallus visits Rome.

Births

Dionysios Thrax , linguist

Lucius Accius , Roman tragic poet

Deaths

Apollonius Of Perga , Greek mathematician