place
Minturnae
also: Menturnis, Minturnae
A town of southern Latium on the Via Appia near the mouth of the river Liris. Cicero wrote Fam. 14.14 from here in late January 49 BC while tracking the early movements of the civil war.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 9.12 §1 couriers met at Minturnae
Minturnae was a town on the Via Appia near the mouth of the Liris, on the road between Rome and Cicero's Campanian villas; it lay on the natural route by which Caesar's despatch-riders carried news up the coast.
- Ad Atticum 10.13 §2 Servius is said to have lodged at Minturnae on the day before the Nones of May
Minturnae was a town on the Via Appia near the mouth of the Liris, a natural overnight stop for a traveller moving down the coast toward Cicero. "The day before the Nones of May" is 6 May by the Roman backward count.
- Ad Atticum 16.10 §1 turned aside from Minturnae in the direction of Arpinum
Minturnae lay on the Appian Way near the mouth of the Liris; from there Cicero diverted inland toward his native Arpinum to avoid the main road.
- Ad Atticum 16.13 §1 the Tirenus bridge by Minturnae
Minturnae was a town on the Appian Way where the Liris river met the coast; the "Tirenus bridge" was a local crossing nearby. Here the road branched off inland toward Cicero's home town of Arpinum.
- Ad Familiares 14.14 §2 at Minturnae
A town in southern Latium on the Via Appia near the mouth of the Liris, on Cicero's route between Rome and his Campanian estates; he wrote from here while shadowing the early movements of the civil war.
- On His Return: To the Citizens §20 the Minturnenses
The townsmen of Minturnae, who in 88 BC saved the fugitive Marius when he was found hiding in the nearby marshes, before he escaped by ship to Africa. Cicero recalls the episode as the model of a brave man's spirit unbroken by calamity.