place
Velia
Velia (Elea), the old Greek city on the western coast of Lucania (modern Marina di Ascea), birthplace of Parmenides and Zeno; in late Republican times a small but pleasant retreat. Cicero met Brutus here on his return from Greece in 44 BC (Phil. 1.9; 10.8) and Verres's Syracusan ship was brought to Velia (Verr. 2.5.44).
Reading notes
- Ad M. Brutum 1.10 §4 at Velia
Velia (modern Castellammare di Bruca, Campania) was a coastal town where Cicero met Brutus in August 44 BC as Cicero was about to sail for Greece; Brutus persuaded him to turn back and resume the fight at Rome.
- Ad M. Brutum 1.15 §5 I saw you at Velia
Velia (modern Ascea Marina) is a coastal town in Lucania, southern Italy; Cicero encountered Brutus there in early August 44 BC as Brutus was departing Italy, ostensibly to take up his provincial command of Macedonia — an encounter Cicero here recalls with grief as a symbol of the republican retreat.
- Tenth Philippic §8 at Velia
A coastal town in Lucania (Greek Elea) from which Brutus sailed away from Italy in August 44 BC, declining to provoke civil war. Cicero recalls the mournful departure.