place
Luceria
also: Luceria
A town in Apulia, southern Italy. In Fam. 15.15 Cicero recalls letters Cassius had sent him from Luceria (early 49 BC), where Pompeian forces concentrated at the start of the civil war.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 8.1 §1 should come to Luceria
Luceria in Apulia was Pompey's mustering-point and headquarters as he fell back toward the Adriatic. Pompey's hand-written postscript summoning Cicero there signals, to Cicero, that the seaboard and its towns are being written off.
- Ad Atticum 8.11 §4 there is so much talk at Luceria
Luceria in Apulia had been Pompey's headquarters and mustering-ground; the dilectus (conscription) reportedly proclaimed there alarmed Italy, though Cicero says the universal ruin to come is more to be feared than the levy itself.
- Ad Atticum 8.16 §2 certain ``Lucerias'' of his
Luceria in Apulia was Pompey's headquarters during the retreat, from which he was rumoured to be issuing Sullan-style threats of proscription against those who stayed behind; "Lucerias" stands for those menacing pronouncements. The jurors dread a victorious Pompey more than a victorious Caesar.
- Ad Familiares 15.15 §4 those earliest ones you sent from Luceria
Luceria in Apulia was a Pompeian mustering-point at the outbreak of the war in early 49 BC; Cassius had written from there urging Cicero on a course Cicero now wishes he had followed.