place
Tyndaritani
also: Tyndaritans
Tyndaris, a Sicilian city on the northern coast east of Mylae, founded by Dionysius I in 396 BC for Lacedaemonian exiles; a city in alliance with Rome. Its Mercury statue carried off by Verres is one of the central episodes of Verr. 2.4 (85-92); the Tyndaritan ship and the captain Aristeus are key figures in the Helorus disaster (Verr. 2.5.108-111).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 15.2 §4 The case of the Tyndaritans
The people of Tyndaris, a town on the north coast of Sicily; Flamma was pressing some lawsuit on their behalf, the details of which Cicero says he does not know.