place
Volaterrae
also: Volterra
Etruscan town; site of Sulla's camp during the closing campaign of the civil war (81 BC).
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 6.6 §9 a part of Italy not at all to be slighted
The phrase refers to Etruria and in particular Volaterrae, Caecina's home city in the heart of Etruria; Caesar, as a shrewd politician, would need the goodwill of the Etruscan nobility, and restoring Caecina would signal generosity to that constituency.