place
Delum
also: Delos, shrine of Apollo
Delos, the small Cycladic island at the centre of the Aegean, traditional birthplace of Apollo and Artemis and home of the most ancient inviolable sanctuary in the Greek world. From 167 BC it was a Roman free port and the great clearing-house of Aegean trade — until sacked by Mithridates in 88 and by the pirate Athenodorus in 69 BC. Verres stripped its temple by night (Verr. 2.1.46-47).
Reading notes
- Against Verres, Second Hearing, Book I §46 shrine of Apollo
Apollo's birth-place sanctuary on Delos, the most ancient and revered Apolline shrine in the Greek world; even the Persian fleet, Cicero says, did not violate it.