place
Dalmatia
also: Dalmatiam
The mountainous Illyrian region on the eastern Adriatic coast, home of the Dalmatae, where Vatinius campaigned in 45 BC; a refuge into which Cicero's runaway slave Dionysius might have fled.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 5.10a §1 the Dalmatian cold
Dalmatia, the mountainous Illyrian region on the eastern Adriatic, theatre of Vatinius's command; he blames its harsh winter for his failure to run Dionysius to ground.
- Ad Familiares 5.10b §1 Dalmatia
The mountainous Illyrian region on the eastern Adriatic coast, home of the warlike Dalmatae, where Vatinius campaigned through the winter of 45 BC.