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Magnesians from Sipylum
also: Magnetibus ab Sipylo
Magnesia ad Sipylum, a Hellenistic city on the northern face of Mt Sipylus in Lydia, the site of L. Scipio's victory over Antiochus III in 190 BC. Quintus Cicero alone of the Asian governor's staff held firm against L. Sestius Pansa's demands on the city (Ad Q. fr. 2.9.2).
Reading notes
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.9 §2 Magnesians from Sipylum
Magnesia ad Sipylum, in Lydia near the foot of Mt Sipylus; an embassy from the city, in Rome on the same business that brought the Tenedian deputation, gave honourable mention to Quintus's resistance to the demand of L. Sestius Pansa.