Naples
Place
Civil War 3.21 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… When he had himself reached Casilinum, and when at one and the same time his military standards and arms were seized at Capua and the gladiators, who were preparing the betrayal of the town, were seen at Naples, finding himself shut out from Capua by the detection of his designs and fearing danger, because the Roman citizen body, considering that he should …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.21
Caesar
… When he had himself reached Casilinum, and when at one and the same time his military standards and arms were seized at Capua and the gladiators, who were preparing the betrayal of the town, were seen at Naples, finding himself shut out from Capua by the detection of his designs and fearing danger, because the Roman citizen body, considering that he should be regarded as a public enemy, had taken up arms, he abandoned his design and turned aside from his journey.
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
Founded as Parthenope by Greeks in the eighth century B.C., the site eventually gave rise to Neapolis in the sixth century B.C. and was one of the most prominent cities of Magna Graecia. Modern-day Naples, Italy.
Pleiades 433014 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 44 F4 Parthenope/Neapolis