Corsica
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
this arid and thorny rock · this island · this rock
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
An island cited as the origin of a shrine to a spring dedicated by Massa
And so Massa dedicated a shrine of the Spring from Corsica, and in the prayer of the augurs we see Tiberinus, Spino, Anemo, Nodinus, and other names of neighbouring rivers.
Consolation to Helvia
The island of Seneca's exile (Corsica, unnamed but strongly implied), described as barren yet repeatedly settled by different peoples.
this man has coveted what was loathsome to that;
so often has the population of this arid and thorny rock been changed!
What can be found so bare, what so cut off on every side, as this rock?