Arpinum

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 9.17 §1 I should go to Arpinum

  Arpinum, the hill-town in the Volscian country about 100 km southeast of Rome, was Cicero's birthplace and ancestral home; with the capital barred to him he falls back on it both for refuge and for his son's coming-of-age ceremony.

• Ad Atticum 12.42 §3 from there perhaps to Arpinum

  Arpinum, in the hills of southern Latium, was Cicero's ancestral home town and the site of his family estates. He considers retreating there after the Tusculanum, still avoiding the crowds of Rome.

• Ad Atticum 13.9 §2 I must go to Arpinum

  Arpinum, the hill town of the Volsci in southern Latium that was Cicero's birthplace and where he held family estates. He needs to settle the rents on those small properties.

• Ad Atticum 15.3 §1 I received in the Arpinate

  Arpinum, the hill town southeast of Rome that was Cicero's birthplace and the site of a family estate; here he received Atticus's letters while travelling.

• Ad Atticum 16.8 §2 flee to Arpinum

  Arpinum, Cicero's ancestral hometown in the hills southeast of Rome, which he regarded as a place of safety away from the armies.

• Ad Atticum 16.13 §1 toward Arpinum

  Arpinum, the hill town in the Liris valley that was Cicero's birthplace and family seat, where he kept estates and often retreated.

• Ad Familiares 13.11 §1 fellow-townsmen of Arpinum

  Arpinum was the Volscian hill-town in southern Latium where Cicero (and Marius before him) was born; it had held full Roman citizenship since 188 BC. As a patron of his native municipality Cicero routinely lent it the weight of his name.

• Ad Familiares 13.11 §1 fellow-townsmen of Arpinum

  Arpinum was the Volscian hill-town in southern Latium where Cicero (and Marius before him) was born; full Roman citizenship since 188 BC. The municipality elected only a college of three aediles.

• Ad Familiares 14.7 §3 The Arpinum estate

  Arpinum, a hill town in Latium some 100 km southeast of Rome, was Cicero's ancestral home and the site of family property. He suggests Terentia retreat there, away from the troops, if grain prices rise in the city.

• On the Agrarian Law, Third Speech §8 my paternal and ancestral Arpinate estate

  Arpinum, Cicero's home town in the Volscian hills, the family estate held by lawful inheritance; he contrasts his honest title with the privileged "best right" Rullus's law would grant to seized Sullan land.

• On Duties §1.21 the land around Arpinum is called the Arpinates'

  Arpinum was Cicero's own hometown, a hill town southeast of Rome; its citizens were the Arpinates. He uses it and nearby Tusculum to illustrate how naturally common land becomes private property through long occupation.

• Tusculan Disputations §5.66 a man of Arpinum

  Cicero's own birthplace, a hill town in Latium. He pointedly observes that the most learned city of Greece had to learn of its greatest citizen's monument from an Arpinate, i.e. himself.