place
Narona
Roman colony and trading town in southern Dalmatia (Illyricum), on the river Naro (modern Neretva). It lay within the command of P. Sulpicius Rufus; Cicero's runaway slave Dionysius was seen there (Fam. 13.77).
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 5.9 §2 from the camp at Narona
Narona, the Roman colony and trading town on the river Naro (Neretva) in southern Dalmatia, was Vatinius's base of operations against the Dalmatae in 45 BC.
- Ad Familiares 5.10b §1 Narona
Roman colony and trading town in southern Dalmatia (Illyricum), on the river Naro (modern Neretva), from which Vatinius dates this dispatch.