place
Seleucia Pieria
Seleucia in Pieria
also: Seleucea Pieria, Seleucia in Pieria
The fortified Syrian port of Antioch, founded by Seleucus I in the coastal district of Pieria; the point of departure for a freedman of C. Trebonius who brought Cicero news from the East (Att. 11.20). Distinct from Seleucia-on-the-Tigris.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 11.20 §1 Seleucia in Pieria
The Syrian port of Antioch on the Orontes, founded by Seleucus I; the time it took a traveller to reach Brundisium from there (twenty-eight days) gauges how slowly news of Caesar in the East reached Italy.