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Leucopetra
also: Leucopetram, Leucopetram Tarentinorum
Leucopetra ("White Rock"), the promontory at the southern tip of Italy near Rhegium (here the "Leucopetra of the Tarentines"), a usual embarkation point for Greece; Cicero put in here in August 44 BC, was driven back by a south wind, and abandoned his voyage.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 16.6 §1 to Tarentine Leucopetra by light boat
Leucopetra was a promontory near Rhegium; Cicero weighs whether to cross direct to Patrae or hop along the coast to Leucopetra, then on to Corcyra, the standard staging-island for the run up the Greek coast.
- Ad Atticum 16.7 §1 set out from Leucopetra
Leucopetra was a promontory just south of Rhegium at the toe of Italy, the point from which Cicero launched his crossing to Greece; a south wind drove him straight back to it, and the news he then heard made him abandon the voyage altogether.