place

Dyrrachium

also: Durazzo

Adriatic port city of Epirus, terminus of the Via Egnatia; Cicero's residence in late 58 BC and the city he sailed from on returning from exile.

Reading notes

Ad Atticum 3.8 §1 Dyrrachium
The port on the Illyrian coast (modern Durres) where the Via Egnatia began. The normal landfall for travellers crossing from Brundisium toward Macedonia.
Ad M. Brutum 2.3 §6 Kalends of April, from Dyrrachium
Dyrrachium (modern Durrës, Albania), an Adriatic port and gateway to the Egnatian Road, was Brutus's principal base in Illyricum-Macedonia, dated here to 1 April 43 BC.