Lissus
Place
Civil War 3.26 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Coming to a harbour named Nymphaeum, three miles beyond Lissus, a harbour which was protected from the south-west wind but was not safe from the south, they took their ships in there, reckoning the danger from the storm less than that from the enemy’s fleet. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.26
Caesar
… Coming to a harbour named Nymphaeum, three miles beyond Lissus, a harbour which was protected from the south-west wind but was not safe from the south, they took their ships in there, reckoning the danger from the storm less than that from the enemy’s fleet. …
Civil War 3.28
Caesar
Two of our ships, overtaken by night owing to the slow progress of their course, not knowing what position the rest had taken, anchored opposite Lissus, and Otacilius Crassus, who was in command of Lissus, was preparing to capture these by sending against them a number of row-boats and other small craft; at the same time he was treating for the surrender of their crews, and promising them freedom from injury if they surrendered. …
Civil War 3.29
Caesar
After this had taken place the corporation of Roman citizens who were in occupation of Lissus, a town which Caesar had previously made over to them and for the fortification of which he had arranged, admitted Antonius and assisted him in* every way. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
An important Illyrian port located on the river Drin.
Pleiades 481896 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 49 B2 Lissus
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Civil War 3.26 · Civil War 3.28 · Civil War 3.29 · Civil War 3.40 · Civil War 3.42 · Civil War 3.78