place
Tyrus
Tyre
also: Tyre, Tyrians, Tyriis
The great Phoenician port city on the coast of Syria. In Q.fr 2.11 a Tyrian embassy is given a hearing in the Senate, opposed by the Syrian tax-farmers.
Reading notes
- Ad Quintum Fratrem 2.11 §2 a crowded Senate gave audience to the Tyrians
An embassy from the Phoenician city of Tyre was heard in the Senate, opposed by the publicani (tax-farming companies) who held the Syrian revenue contracts and resented Gabinius's conduct as governor of Syria.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.66 after they had come to Tyre
Tyre, the great Phoenician port on the Levantine coast, where Pompey's fleeing companions put in. Only on reaching safety did their distress break out, showing grief can be deferred at will.