Pompeii
place · 6 works · 8 mentions · 8 anchored passages
mine near Pompeii · the region of Pompeii · your Pompeii · your beloved Pompeii
in the texts
Lucullus
Town near the narrator's vantage point, whose general region is visible but whose specific villa cannot be distinguished, illustrating the limits of sight.
'What, then, is there that can be perceived, if not even the senses report true things?
We had come the earlier, indeed, because it had been arranged that, if there were a wind, Lucullus should sail to his estate near Neapolis and I to mine near Pompeii.
Letters to Lucilius
City in Campania associated with Lucilius
Lo, Campania, and above all Naples and the sight of your beloved Pompeii, have made my longing for you fresh again—it is past belief;
After a long interval I have seen your Pompeii again.
Institutes of Roman Law
City whose inscription evidence helps date the lex Petronia.
A lex Petronia of uncertain date, but which must have been passed before the destruction of Pompeii, a.
Meditations
Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Vesuvius, cited as an example of a perished city.
and how many whole cities have died, if one may say so — Helice, Pompeii, Herculaneum, and others without number.
Ad Nationes
City destroyed by volcanic fire, cited as predating Christian existence.
When fire poured from heaven upon Volsinii, and upon Pompeii from its own mountain?
De Pallio
City destroyed by volcanic fire, cited as an example of the world's changeability.
From a cloud of this sort Tuscany too, having burnt up its ancient Volsinii — that Campania may the more hope from its own mountains — snatched away Pompeii.