place
Apulia
also: Apuliam
Region of southeastern Italy. In Fam. 1.10 Cicero teases the jurisconsult Valerius about retreating to his Apulian estate, where he plays the lone wise man among rustics.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.21 §2 at the gates of Apulia
Apulia, the heel-region of south-east Italy, lay on Pompey's line of retreat toward the port of Brundisium, from which he intended to cross to Greece.