159 BC - Deaths

Deaths

  • Eucratides I, king of Bactria, who has reigned since around 170 BC.
  • Eumenes II, king of Pergamon.
  • Publius Terentius Afer (Terence), Roman comic dramatist, the author of six verse comedies that are long regarded as models of pure Latin (b. c. 195 BC) (approximate date).
  • Alcimus, high priest of Judea.

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