place
Metapontum
also: Metapontum, Metapontinus
A Greek city on the gulf of Tarentum in southern Italy where Pythagoras spent his last years and died. In De Finibus 5.4 Cicero recalls visiting the very house and seat of Pythagoras there before turning aside to his host.
Reading notes
- On the Ends of Good and Evil §5.4 I came with you to Metapontum
Metapontum was a Greek city in southern Italy where Pythagoras spent his last years and died. Cicero recalls making a pilgrimage to Pythagoras's house there, an instance of place stirring reverence for great men.