70 Bc

Events

• August - In Rome, Cicero prosecutes former governor Verres; Verres exiles himself to Marseilles before the trial is over.
• Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus become consul.
• The office of censor is reinstated in the Roman Republic.
• Lucullus captures Sinop.

Births

• October 15 - Virgil, Roman poet (d. 19 BC)
• December - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (or January 69 BC)
• Publius Cornelius Dolabella, Roman general
• Maecenas, Roman politician and patron

Deaths

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