* [[Caecilius Statius]], bardd Rhufeinig (ganed tua [[219 CC]])
* [[Jia Yi]], gwleidydd a bardd o [[China]] (g. [[200 CC]])
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{{Year nav BC|169}}
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==Events==
===By place===
====Greece====
* [[Macedon]]ian forces led by [[Perseus of Macedon]] trap a [[Roman Republic|Roman]] army led by [[consul]] Quintus Marcius Phillipus near [[Vale of Tempe|Tempe]], but the Macedonians fail to take advantage of their resulting superior tactical position.
* King Perseus asks the [[Seleucid]] King [[Antiochus IV Epiphanes|Antiochus IV]] to join forces with him against the danger that Rome presents to all of the [[Hellenistic civilization|Hellenic]] monarchs. Antiochus IV does not respond.
====Roman Republic====
* ''[[Lex Voconia]]'' (The Voconian Law) is introduced in Rome by the [[tribune]], Quintus Voconius Saxa, with the support of [[Cato the Elder]]. This law prohibits those who own property valued at 100,000 [[Sestertius|sesterces]] from making a woman their heir.
==Births==
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==Deaths==
* Quintus [[Ennius]], epic poet, dramatist, and satirist, the most influential of the early [[Latin]] poets, and often called the founder of Roman literature or the father of [[Roman Republic|Roman]] poetry. His epic ''Annales'', a narrative poem telling the story of Rome from the wanderings of [[Aeneas]] to the Ennius' own time, remains the national epic until it is later eclipsed by [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'' (b. [[239 BC]])
