place
Ephesus
also: Ephesus, Ephesum
A great and populous Greek city on the coast of Asia Minor; here named, with Alexandria, as an example of a merely earthly fatherland too small for the soul.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §102.21 Ephesus
A great Greek city of the Ionian coast of Asia Minor; cited, with Alexandria, as a merely earthly fatherland too narrow for the soul, whose true home is the whole cosmos.