Epirus

Reading notes

• Ad Atticum 1.5 §7 Of the Epirote purchase

  Atticus had bought an estate in Epirus (north-west Greece), near Buthrotum, where he would build his celebrated retreat; Cicero approves the acquisition.

• Ad Atticum 3.1 §1 the road through Epirus

  Epirus, in north-western Greece, was where Atticus held large estates; Cicero hoped to shelter under his friend's protection there on the way east. The route ran from Brundisium across the Adriatic to Dyrrachium and inland.

• Ad Atticum 3.6 §1 Epirus

  The mountainous region of north-western Greece where Atticus owned the estate at Buthrotum. Atticus repeatedly pressed Cicero to break his exile journey there; Cicero kept declining.

• Ad Atticum 3.19 §1 Epirus

  The region of north-western Greece where Atticus held an estate near Buthrotum, with its own harbour. Its port would let Cicero sail quickly for Italy if recall came.

• Ad Atticum 3.20 §1 Epirus

  The north-western Greek region where Atticus held an estate. Cicero had meant to await news of his recall there but now judges it better to stay where he is.

• Ad Atticum 3.21 §1 Epirus

  The north-western Greek region where Atticus held an estate near Buthrotum. Cicero again states his plan to move there from Thessalonica to await the outcome of the recall effort.

• Ad Atticum 9.12 §1 the invitation to Epirus

  Atticus owned a large estate at Buthrotum in Epirus (north-western Greece) and offered it to Cicero as a refuge; Cicero calls the offer "brotherly" but it would have meant crossing to the very region Pompey was making for.

• Ad Atticum 12.53 §1 unless the Epirote correspondence is holding you up

  Atticus owned a large estate at Buthrotum in Epirus (north-west Greece) and conducted regular business correspondence about it. Cicero allows that this may delay Atticus's afternoon letter and tactfully does not press.

• Ad Atticum 13.25 §3 to Epirus

  The region of north-western Greece where Atticus held a large estate; Cicero pictures Atticus reading the books there at leisure.

• Ad Atticum 16.2 §6 you mean to winter in Epirus

  Epirus, the region of north-western Greece where Atticus owned a large estate near Buthrotum; he regularly wintered there, and Cicero hopes to meet him before himself returning to Italy.

• Ad Atticum 16.6 §3 if I get off to Epirus quickly

  Epirus, the region of north-western Greece across the strait from Italy, where Atticus owned extensive estates; it lay on the route Cicero planned to take.

• Ad Familiares 13.18 §2 in the affairs of Epirus and the rest

  Atticus derived a large portion of his income from his estates in Epirus (north-west Greece), which he had inherited from an uncle and developed with slave-run flocks; Servius, as proconsul of Achaea, had jurisdiction over or proximity to these holdings and could offer practical protection.