place
Armenia
also: Armenius
Mountainous land east of Asia Minor; its woods supply the lion of the second messenger simile.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §15.94.65 Armenia
The mountainous kingdom east of Asia Minor, drawn into the Mithridatic wars under its king Tigranes; another arena of Pompey's conquests.
- Hercules on Oeta §234 a tigress, lying pregnant beneath an Armenian crag
Armenia, like the Caspian, proverbial for tigers; the simile for Deianira's fury.
- Thyestes §732 Armenian wood
Mountainous Armenia, whose woods supply the lion of the messenger's simile.