Sulpician
Narrative faction label
Civil War 3.101 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Cassius I departed thence to Vibo to the Sulpician fleet, and I our ships having been moored to the shore in the I same way as before, Cassius, with the advantage of I a favourable wind, sent down some merchant-vessels I prepared for burning, and the fleet having caught fire on each wing, five ships were consumed. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.101
Caesar
… Cassius I departed thence to Vibo to the Sulpician fleet, and I our ships having been moored to the shore in the I same way as before, Cassius, with the advantage of I a favourable wind, sent down some merchant-vessels I prepared for burning, and the fleet having caught fire on each wing, five ships were consumed. …