place
Dyme
also: Dymaeos, Dymaeans, Dymaei
City of Achaea in the northwestern Peloponnese where Pompey had settled former Cilician pirates; driven from their land, they had taken again to brigandage and were making the sea unsafe in 44 BC.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 16.1 §3 As for the Dymaeans, driven from their land and making the sea unsafe
Dyme was an Achaean town in the Peloponnese; its inhabitants, evicted to make room for Pompey's veteran colonists, had taken to piracy, making the sea route Cicero contemplated dangerous.