Zela
Place
Alexandrian War 72 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “Zela is a town situated in Pontus, with adequate natural defences, considering its position in a plain: for its battlements are reared upon a hillock—a natural one for all its artificial appearance—whose summit is loftier than all the terrain surrounding it. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Alexandrian War 72
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
Zela is a town situated in Pontus, with adequate natural defences, considering its position in a plain: for its battlements are reared upon a hillock—a natural one for all its artificial appearance—whose summit is loftier than all the terrain surrounding it. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
Zela (modern Zile, Turkey) was an important ancient city of north-central Asia Minor; Strabo claimed Semiramis had founded the site. Iulius Caesar prevailed in the Battle of Zela against Pharnaces II of The Kingdom of Pontus, coining the phrase "veni, vidi, vici".
Pleiades 857382 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 87 A4 Zela