place
Ituraea
also: Ituraeis, Ituraeos, the Ituraeans
A region of the Lebanon/Syria area whose people were famed as archers. Cicero repeatedly says Antony surrounded the Senate with armed Ituraeans (Phil. 2.19, 112).
Reading notes
- Thirteenth Philippic §18 these benches were occupied by Ituraeans
The Ituraeans were a people of the Lebanon region famed as archers; Cicero repeatedly charges that Antony stationed armed Ituraean guards in the Senate-house, an emblem of armed tyranny.
- Second Philippic §19 besieged by Ituraeans
The Ituraeans were a people of the Lebanon region famed as archers; Antony's use of them as bodyguards is repeatedly cast by Cicero as a barbarian outrage on the Senate.