place
Alsium
also: Alsiense
Coastal town and resort in Etruria, north-west of Rome on the Tyrrhenian coast (near modern Palo Laziale), the site of fashionable seaside villas; one of the possible landing-points considered for Caesar's return from Africa in 46 BC (Fam. 9.6).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.50 §4 but Alsium
A coastal town of Etruria northwest of Rome on the Via Aurelia, where Cicero plans to wait to meet Caesar; he is arranging borrowed lodgings nearby.