Ambracia
Place
Civil War 3.36 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Then Cassius, smitten with fear when he learnt of the approach of Scipio and saw the horsemen whom he supposed to be Scipio’s, turned towards the mountains which enclose Thessaly, and from these parts began to direct his course towards Ambracia. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.36
Caesar
… Then Cassius, smitten with fear when he learnt of the approach of Scipio and saw the horsemen whom he supposed to be Scipio’s, turned towards the mountains which enclose Thessaly, and from these parts began to direct his course towards Ambracia. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
Ambracia (modern Arta) was an ancient city of central Greece, founded as a colony of Corinth in the seventh century BCE. It was located near the Ambracian Gulf along the course of the river Arachthos.
Pleiades 530794 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 C3 Ambracia