place
Lilybaeo
also: Lilybaeum
Lilybaeum (modern Marsala), the great port and stronghold at the western tip of Sicily, founded by the Carthaginians in 396 BC and the seat of the quaestor of Western Sicily under Rome. Cicero served here as quaestor under Sex. Peducaeus in 75 BC, and the city is the locus of many of the central Verrine outrages (the seizure of the Boethus hydria, the silver of Diodorus the Maltese, etc., Verr. 2.4.37 etc.). One of the assize-towns of the province.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 12.28 §1 threatening from Lilybaeum
Lilybaeum (modern Marsala) was the great port at the western tip of Sicily, the standard crossing-point to the province of Africa; men hostile to Cornificius were gathering there to make trouble.