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Corfinium

Place

Civil War 1.15 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… With them he makes his way by forced marches to Domitius Ahenobarbus at Corfinium and reports the arrival of Caesar with two legions. …”

Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.

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Civil War 1.15

Caesar

… With them he makes his way by forced marches to Domitius Ahenobarbus at Corfinium and reports the arrival of Caesar with two legions. …

Civil War 1.15

Civil War 1.16

Caesar

… He stays there himself one day for foraging purposes and then hastens to Corfinium. …

Civil War 1.16

Civil War 1.18

Caesar

Meanwhile word is brought to Caesar that the inhabitants of Sulmo, a town seven miles distant from Corfinium, are ready to carry out his wishes, but are prevented by the senator Q. Lucretius and by Attius the Pelignian, who were in occupation of the town with a garrison of seven cohorts. …

Civil War 1.18

Geographical record

Pleiades representative point · precise

Corfinium was the principal city of the Paeligni in the valley of the Aternus river. The site becomes the capital of the breakaway Italic groups that oppose Rome during the Social War.

Pleiades 413105 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 42 F4 Corfinium

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