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Picenum
also: Piceno
The region on the Adriatic coast of central Italy, a Pompeian stronghold from which Pompey could levy supporters. In 56 BC a large band was expected thence to back Milo against Clodius's gangs.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 7.13 §1 not even Picenum was a known country
Picenum, the Adriatic region of east-central Italy, was traditionally Pompeian territory (his family's heartland); Cicero's gibe is that Pompey has so mismanaged the campaign that he does not even know the ground in his own stronghold.
- Ad Atticum 7.16 §2 if he himself comes into the Picenum country
Picenum, the Adriatic-coast region north-east of Rome, was Pompey's family heartland and recruiting ground; his hope of rallying it explains his confidence that Cicero might soon return to Rome.
- Ad Atticum 7.21 §2 go into Picenum himself
Picenum, the Adriatic coastal region of central Italy, was Pompey's ancestral power base; its swift loss to Caesar (confirmed here by Dolabella's letter) was a decisive early blow to the Pompeian cause.
- Ad Atticum 7.23 §1 cohorts from Picenum under Lentulus and Thermus
Philotimus's optimistic report had Picene cohorts rallying to L. Domitius Ahenobarbus under P. Lentulus Spinther the younger and Q. Minucius Thermus; in fact Picenum had already fallen and Domitius would be trapped and captured at Corfinium within weeks.
- Ad Atticum 8.1 §1 the affairs in Picenum
Picenum, the coastal region of east-central Italy, was Pompey's old client-country and the first sector to collapse before Caesar's advance in February 49 BC. Its loss is the bad news Vibullius's despatch carries.
- Ad Atticum 8.8 §1 he had lost Picenum by his own fault
Picenum, the Adriatic-coast region of central Italy and Pompey's own ancestral power-base, fell to Caesar's advance in late February 49 BC; its loss was felt as a particular humiliation for Pompey.