place
Ager Albanus
the Alban district
also: Albanum, Pompey's place at Alba
The Alban district in the hills southeast of Rome, around the Alban Mount; here the site of Pompey's villa, which Cicero planned to visit on his way to the city.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.5 §3 to Pompey's place at Alba
Pompey owned an estate in the Alban district (the Albanum) in the hills southeast of Rome; Cicero plans to call there on his way up to the city as the crisis deepens.
- Ad Atticum 9.15 §1 at the Alban estate with Curio
The Ager Albanus, the district around the Alban hills southeast of Rome; Caesar broke his march there in late March 49 BC in the company of C. Scribonius Curio, the tribune who had crossed to his side and now served as one of his lieutenants.