place
Pompeii
also: Pompeii, Pompeiorum
Town on the Bay of Naples in Campania, native place of Lucilius; later destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §5.49.1 your Pompeii
Pompeii, the Campanian town on the bay; called 'yours' because Lucilius was a native of it (or held property there). It would be buried by Vesuvius in AD 79, some years after these letters.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §8.70.1 your Pompeii
Pompeii, the Campanian town on the bay of Naples and the native place of Lucilius; Seneca, revisiting it, is thrown back upon his own youth. (It would be buried by Vesuvius a dozen years after his death.)
- Natural Questions §6.1.1 Pompeii
The Campanian city on the Bay of Naples; Seneca writes of the earthquake that struck it (later destroyed by Vesuvius in AD 79).