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Cyzicenis
also: Cyziceans
Cyzicus, a great free Greek city on the Sea of Marmara, on an island connected to the mainland of Asia Minor. Its successful resistance to Mithridates in the long siege of 73-72 BC, broken by Lucullus, made it a famous Roman ally; its statuary was admired (Verr. 2.4.135) and its civic records were a model of orderly government (Pro lege Manilia 20; Pro Archia 21).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 3.6 §1 Cyzicus
A Greek city on the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), in the province of Asia. Cicero here still imagines fleeing east to Asia rather than settling in Macedonia, the plan he soon abandoned.
- Ad Atticum 3.13 §2 Cyzicus
A Greek city on the Propontis (Sea of Marmara), far from Italy; a possible retreat Cicero contemplates as hope of an early recall fades. The greater distance would slow his correspondence with Atticus.