-211

This page relates to the year -211 Calendrier Julien proleptic.

Events

Financial problems of Antiochos III which, to pay its immense army (100 000 infantrymen and 20 000 riders according to Justin), innovates by despoiling an indigenous sanctuary of Médie.

With Rome, Consul At of Publius Sulpicius Bent Maximus (for the first time) and Cn. Fulvius Centunalus (Centumalus) Maximus.

Hannibal plunders the Latium. It fails in front of Rome, which reconquers the towns of Italy of the south.

Capoue, adopted like key position by Hannibal, goes to the Romains after a second seat. The city is subjected to a terrible repression. The aristocracy is massacred, the Plèbe is reduced in slavery. The territory and the town of Capoue become property of the Roman people.
Hannibal, to widen the conflict, is combined after the catch of Capoue with Philippe V of Macedonia.
Alliance of Rome and the League étolienne with the Greek cities of Sparte, Messène and Elect against Philippe V of Macedonia.
the army of both Scipion is reduced to nothing by the Carthaginians with Baetis (Spain). Cn. Cornelius Scipion (the future African) replaces them as proconsul in Spain.

Introduction of the atellane in Rome, kind of comedy having been born with Atella, in Campania, where one finds the same characters from one part to another.

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