place
Capua
also: Capua
The chief city of Campania; a key Pompeian rallying-point in early 49 BC, where Cicero wrote several of these letters.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 8.12 §2 Capua already having been put in my charge
At the outbreak of war Pompey had assigned Cicero a supervisory command over Capua and the Campanian coast; Cicero here defends his refusal to take it up as prudence rather than cowardice or bad faith.
- Ad Atticum 16.8 §1 either at Capua or not far from Capua
Capua, the chief city of Campania, where Octavian proposed a secret meeting with Cicero; Cicero dismisses the secrecy as childishly impossible.
- Ad Atticum 16.9 §1 He is enrolling at Capua
At Capua in Campania Octavian was openly levying and registering soldiers and paying out their bounties.
- On the Agrarian Law, Second Speech §87 Carthage, Corinth, and Capua
The three cities Rome's ancestors judged capable of rivalling her for empire: Carthage and Corinth were destroyed in 146 BC, Capua stripped of its political institutions in 211 BC after siding with Hannibal. Cicero warns that a colony at Capua would resurrect a second Rome.
- Twelfth Philippic §7 Capua, which in these times is a second Rome
Capua, the great Campanian city, which had expelled Antony's partisans and nearly captured Antony himself; Cicero praises it as a bulwark of the Republican cause.