place
Apulia
Region of south-eastern Italy, proverbially poor and waste; Seneca contrasts owning land there with owning suburban estates near Rome.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §87.7 Apulia
Region of south-eastern Italy, a byword for poor waste land; to own much of it was no wealth at all.
- Natural Questions §5.17.5 Apulia
Region of southeastern Italy; the atabulus is its scorching local wind.