Crete
Place
Civil War 3.4 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “He had made up nine legions of Roman citizens: five from Italy, which he had conveyed across the sea; one of veterans from Cilicia, which, being formed out of two legions, he styled the Twin Legion; one from Crete and Macedonia out of veteran troops which, when disbanded by their former commanders, had settled in those provinces; two from Asia, for the …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.4
Caesar
He had made up nine legions of Roman citizens: five from Italy, which he had conveyed across the sea; one of veterans from Cilicia, which, being formed out of two legions, he styled the Twin Legion; one from Crete and Macedonia out of veteran troops which, when disbanded by their former commanders, had settled in those provinces; two from Asia, for the levying of which the consul Lentulus had arranged. …
Alexandrian War 1
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
WHEN the Alexandrian war flared up, Caesar summoned every fleet from Rhodes and Syria and Cilicia: from Crete he raised archers, and cavalry from Malchus, king of the Nabataeans, and ordered artillery to be procured, corn despatched, and auxiliary troops mustered from every quarter. …
Civil War 3.5
Caesar
He had collected a very large quantity of corn from Thessaly, Asia, Egypt, Crete, Cyrene, and other districts. …