But Cicero speaks of the daughter of 'a praetor' being carried off from
Misenum, and it is not improbable that he alludes to M. Antonius
Creticus, praetor B.C. 75. If this explanation is correct, the Antonia
was the grand-daughter of the orator Antonius.]
[Footnote 233: [Greek: stulides]. The meaning of this word is
uncertain. [Greek: Stulis] is a diminutive of [Greek: stulos] , and
signifies a small pillar, or pole. It may be that which carried the
colours. But I do not profess to have translated the word, for I do
not know what is meant.]
[Footnote 234: From the places enumerated it appears that the pirates
had carried their ravages from the coast of Asia Minor to the shores
of Greece and up the Ionian Sea as far as the entrance of the Gulf of
Ambracia, now the Gulf of Arta, near the entrance of which Actium was
situated on the southern coast, and even to the Italian shores. The
temple of Juno Lacinia was on the south-eastern coast of Italy on a
promontory, now called Capo delle Colonne, from the ruins of the
ancient temple. The noted temples of antiquity were filled with works
of art and rich offerings, the gifts of pious devotees. Cicero (_Pro
Lege Manilia_), c. 18) speaks of the pirates as infesting even the Via
Appia.]
[Footnote 235: Not the mountain of that name, Kaltwasser remarks, but
a town of Lycia in Asia Minor, one of the headquarters of the pirates.
Strabo (p.
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