place
Arabia Felix
also: Arabia Felix
The fertile south-western corner of the Arabian peninsula. Cicero reports a rumour that Pompey was thinking of it, with Egypt and Mesopotamia, as a place of refuge.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 9.11 §4 of Arabia Felix
"Arabia Felix" (literally "Fortunate Arabia") was the Roman name for the fertile, incense-bearing south-western corner of the Arabian peninsula; it figures here among the wild rumours of distant lands to which Pompey might withdraw and rebuild his strength.