place
Samo
also: Samos
Samos, the great Ionian island off the Lydian coast, traditional birthplace of Pythagoras and seat of the Heraion (one of the oldest and largest Greek temples). A free city under Rome, plundered of the Heraeum's statuary by Verres (Verr. 2.1.50). Frequent in Cicero (Pro lege Manilia 33; Ad Q. fr. 1.1.25; Phil. 11.5).
Reading notes
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.1 §25 the most noble of Ionia
Samos, the island off the Ionian coast, was reckoned the noblest city of Ionia; Cicero credits Quintus with restoring it and Halicarnassus in Caria from ruin.
- Eleventh Philippic §5 Samian exile
An exile from Samos to whom Dolabella handed Trebonius over for torture; "Samian" recurs as Cicero's contemptuous label for the torturer-executioner.