place
Apamea
also: Apameam
Apamea on the Orontes, a fortress city of Syria. Q. Caecilius Bassus held out here; in Fam. 12.12 Cassius notes Bassus would have kept it 'shut up' against him had his soldiers not defected.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 2.17 §3 the garrison at Apamea
Apamea on the Orontes (modern Afamia, Syria) was a key garrison town on the border between Cicero's Cilician command and Bibulus's Syrian province; Cicero had stationed troops there against the Parthian threat and withdrew them when the alarm subsided.
- Ad Familiares 12.12 §3 he would have held Apamea shut up until it was taken by storm
Apamea on the Orontes, a strong city of Syria where the renegade Q. Caecilius Bassus had entrenched himself; his troops mutinied and came over to Cassius before it had to be stormed.