place
Luca
also: Lucca
Etruscan town on the southern road into Cisalpine Gaul; the site of the triumvirs' summit conference of April 56 BC, after which Cicero accepted political silence on Caesar's continuation in Gaul.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 1.9 §9 came to Caesar at Luca
The conference of Luca (Lucca), April 56 BC, where Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus renewed their compact and divided the future; Cicero's Campanian-land motion had alarmed them. The meeting forced his political submission, the occasion of this whole letter.
- Ad Familiares 13.13 §1 the municipality of Luca
Etruscan town on the southern road into Cisalpine Gaul, near the boundary of the province; site of the triumvirs' summit conference of April 56 BC. Castronius is described as its leading citizen (longe princeps).
- Ad Familiares 13.13 §1 the municipality of Luca
Etruscan town on the southern road into Cisalpine Gaul; site of the triumvirs' summit conference of April 56 BC.