place

Piraeus

also: Piraeum, the Piraeus

The principal harbour of Athens, some 10 km southwest of the city. In May 45 BC M. Claudius Marcellus (cos. 51) was murdered near the Piraeus by his companion P. Magius Cilo, as reported by Servius Sulpicius Rufus in Ad Fam. 4.12.

Reading notes

Ad Atticum 4.16 §3 the Piraeus
The harbour-town of Athens, the dramatic setting of Plato's Republic.
Ad Atticum 6.9 §1 the Piraeus
The fortified harbour town some five miles southwest of Athens, the city's port since the fifth century BC; Cicero landed here on his homeward voyage and received Atticus's letter the moment he stepped ashore.
Ad Atticum 7.3 §10 did not reckon the Piraeus to be a town
Cicero debates whether the Piraeus, the port of Athens, is a town (oppidum) taking the bare accusative or a mere locality (locus) taking a preposition; the grammatical pedantry is a friendly jab at Atticus the connoisseur of Latinity.