place
Lanuvium
also: Lanuvini, Lanuvine
Latin town on the Via Appia in the Alban Hills, famed for its cult of Juno Sospita and for its produce. The 'colei Lanuvini' (Lanuvine cheeses) appear in Fam. 9.22 as an example of a word whose decency depends on context.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 9.13 §6 About Phamea's place at Lanuvium
Lanuvium was a hill town on the Via Appia south of Rome, in fashionable villa country; Cicero is house-hunting (for his brother Quintus) even amid the crisis, but has confused this property with another.
- Ad Atticum 15.4 §2 we ought to go to Lanuvium
Lanuvium, a town in Latium south of Rome where Brutus and Cassius had withdrawn to estates; Cicero expects a face-to-face conference there about the assassins' next move.
- Ad Atticum 15.9 §1 as far off as Lanuvium
Lanuvium, a Latin town about twenty miles south of Rome where Cicero had a villa; he sets its everyday nearness against far-flung Sparta to mock the idea of a comfortable Greek exile.
- For Titus Annius Milo §27 dictator of Lanuvium
Milo held the chief annual magistracy (dictator) of the Latin town of Lanuvium, his birthplace, which obliged him to travel there on a fixed day to install ("nominate") the flamen, its priest. This unavoidable, publicly known journey is central to Cicero's reconstruction of the encounter.