place
Aquinum
also: Aquini, Aquino
A town in the Liri valley on the Via Latina (modern Aquino, Lazio), not far from Cicero's estate at Arpinum; mentioned in Fam. 9.24 as a site of plots against Cicero in 43 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 16.10 §1 either at Aquinum or at Arcanum
Aquinum was a town near Arpinum; Arcanum was the country estate of Cicero's brother Quintus in the same district, both convenient stopping-places off the highway.
- Ad Atticum 16.13 §2 stayed that day at Aquinum
Aquinum, a town in southern Latium on the Latin Way, near Arpinum; a stage on Cicero's overland route.