Corcyra
Place
Civil War 3.3 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “Pompeius, availing himself for the purpose of collecting forces of a whole year which had been free from war and without disturbance from an enemy, had gathered a large fleet from Asia and the Cyclades islands, from Corcyra, Athens, Pontus, Bithynia, Syria, Cilicia, Phoenice, Egypt; had contracted for the building of a large fleet wherever possible; had …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.3
Caesar
Pompeius, availing himself for the purpose of collecting forces of a whole year which had been free from war and without disturbance from an enemy, had gathered a large fleet from Asia and the Cyclades islands, from Corcyra, Athens, Pontus, Bithynia, Syria, Cilicia, Phoenice, Egypt; had contracted for the building of a large fleet wherever possible; had requisitioned a large sum of money from Asia, Syria, and all the kings, potentates, and tetrarchs, and from the free communities of Achaia; and had compelled the tax-farming associations of the provinces of which he was himself in control to pay over large sums.
Civil War 3.7
Caesar
Lucretius Vespillo and Minucius Rufus were at Oricum with eighteen Asiatic ships, of which they had been put in- command by D. Laelius; and M. Bibulus was at Corcyra with a hundred and ten ships. …
Civil War 3.8
Caesar
… For Bibulus, having been informed at Corcyra of Caesar’s approach, hoping to be able to fall in with some portion of the loaded ships, fell in with them empty; and coming across about thirty of them, he vented on them the rage caused by vexation at his own slackness, and burnt them all, slaying in the same fire crews and captains, hoping for the rest to be deterred by the greatness of the punishment. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
An island located in the Ionian Sea. Modern-day Corfu, Greece.
Pleiades 530835 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 A2 Corcyra Ins.
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