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Events

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Syria

Roman Republic

Births

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Events

By place

Syria

★ Artaxias I, King of Armenia, is taken captive by the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes when he attacks Armenia. Artaxias is forced to recognize Antiochus IV's suzerainty over Armenia before he is released.

Roman Republic

★ The Roman playwright Terence's ''Hecyra'' (''The Mother-in-Law'') is first performed.

Births

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Deaths

★ Perseus, the last king of Macedonia, who has ruled from 179 BC to 168 BC and whose attempts to dominate Greece has brought on the final defeat of Macedonia by the Romans, leading to the Roman annexation of the region (b. c. 212 BC)