place
Capua
The chief city of Campania, named (with Vercellae) as a provincial birthplace from which eloquence carried Marcellus and Crispus to the top.
Reading notes
- The Annals §4.57 to Jupiter at Capua, to Augustus at Nola
Campanian towns where Tiberius dedicated temples as the pretext for the withdrawal that would become his permanent retreat (eventually to Capri).
- A Dialogue on Oratory §8 Capua
The chief city of Campania, named as a provincial origin transcended by eloquence.
- The Histories §3.58 Capua
The chief city of Campania, which held loyally to Vitellius against pro-Flavian Puteoli.