Placentia
Place
Civil War 3.71 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “In these two battles in one day Caesar lost nine hundred and sixty men and some well-known Roman knights—Tuticanus the Gaul, son of a senator, G. Fleginas of Placentia, A. Granius of Puteoli, M. Sacrativir of Capua—and thirty-two military tribunes and centurions; but the majority of these were overwhelmed at the ditches and lines of investment and …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.71
Caesar
In these two battles in one day Caesar lost nine hundred and sixty men and some well-known Roman knights—Tuticanus the Gaul, son of a senator, G. Fleginas of Placentia, A. Granius of Puteoli, M. Sacrativir of Capua—and thirty-two military tribunes and centurions; but the majority of these were overwhelmed at the ditches and lines of investment and river-banks in the panic and flight of their comrades and perished without any wound; and thirty-two military standards were lost. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
Placentia (modern Piacenza) was an ancient site with Gallic and Etruscan occupation before the Roman conquest of 218 B.C. The city persisted into Late Antiquity.
Pleiades 383741 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 39 F3 Placentia