Brundisium
Americannoun
noun
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Pompey had crossed the sea from Brundisium, and Cæsar had retreated across Italy to Capua.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
Leaving his province on the earliest opportunity, he reached Brundisium on the 24th of November, and found civil war inevitable.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
But to go back a little; we shall find Cicero still waiting at Brundisium during August and September.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
The more leisurely journey from Rome to Brundisium described in Hor Sat I v seems to have taken about fifteen days; see Palmer on I v 103.
From The Last Poems of Ovid by Akrigg, Mark Bear
They were all three of the party who made the famous journey to Brundisium in 37 B.C.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by Sellar, W. Y.
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