Pontus
Place
Civil War 3.3 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “Pompeius, availing himself for the purpose of collecting forces of a whole year which had been free from war and without disturbance from an enemy, had gathered a large fleet from Asia and the Cyclades islands, from Corcyra, Athens, Pontus, Bithynia, Syria, Cilicia, Phoenice, Egypt; had contracted for the building of a large fleet wherever possible; had …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.3
Caesar
Pompeius, availing himself for the purpose of collecting forces of a whole year which had been free from war and without disturbance from an enemy, had gathered a large fleet from Asia and the Cyclades islands, from Corcyra, Athens, Pontus, Bithynia, Syria, Cilicia, Phoenice, Egypt; had contracted for the building of a large fleet wherever possible; had requisitioned a large sum of money from Asia, Syria, and all the kings, potentates, and tetrarchs, and from the free communities of Achaia; and had compelled the tax-farming associations of the provinces of which he was himself in control to pay over large sums.
Alexandrian War 34
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
… He sent P. Sestius to C. Plaetorius, the quaestor, with instructions to bring the legion which had been formed from the hastily improvised forces in Pontus and Quintus Patisius to Cilicia to muster auxiliary troops. …
Civil War 3.4
Caesar
… He had archers from Crete and Lacedaemon, from Pontus and Syria and the other states, to the number of three thousand; also two cohorts, six hundred strong, of slingers, and seven thousand horsemen. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
A region of northeastern Anatolia consisting of the southeastern coast of the Black Sea and the surrounding inland region.
Pleiades 857287 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 87 B4 Pontus
All indexed divisions · 11
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