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Pessinus

also: Pessinunte, Pessinus

An important city in Galatia (north-central Asia Minor), the great cult-centre of Cybele (the Great Mother); Cicero's freedmen Diogenes and Philo passed through it en route to the tetrarch Adiatorix (Fam. 2.12, 50 BC).

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Mentioned in 2 works (3 total)

On the Responses of the Haruspices speeches · 2 mentions
Ad Familiares 2.12 letters · 1 mention

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