place
Pessinus
also: Pessinunte, Pessinus
An important city in Galatia (north-central Asia Minor), the great cult-centre of Cybele (the Great Mother); Cicero's freedmen Diogenes and Philo passed through it en route to the tetrarch Adiatorix (Fam. 2.12, 50 BC).
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 2.12 §2 Pessinus along with Philo
Pessinus was the great Galatian cult-centre of Cybele (the Great Mother) in the interior of Asia Minor, roughly en route from Cilicia toward the Galatian client-kingdoms; Diogenes and Philo were heading there and then on to the tetrarch Adiatorix.