Phoenician
People / regional collective
Civil War 3.101 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “About the same time G. Cassius came to Sicily I with the Syrian, Phoenician, and Cilician fleets, and as Caesar’s fleet was divided into two parts, the praetor P. Sulpicius at Vibo being in command of one half, and M. Pomponius at Messana of the I other, Cassius hurried with his ships to Messana, before Pomponius could learn of his approach, and n finding …”
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Civil War 3.101
Caesar
About the same time G. Cassius came to Sicily I with the Syrian, Phoenician, and Cilician fleets, and as Caesar’s fleet was divided into two parts, the praetor P. Sulpicius at Vibo being in command of one half, and M. Pomponius at Messana of the I other, Cassius hurried with his ships to Messana, before Pomponius could learn of his approach, and n finding him in a state of disorganization, with no surveillance and no fixed order of battle, with the aid of I a strong and favourable wind he sent against the I fleet of Pomponius some merchant-ships loaded with I pine, pitch, tow, and other combustibles and burnt I all thirty-five ships, of which twenty were decked. …