place
Byzantium
also: Byzantii, Byzantiorum
A wealthy free city on the Bosporus within Pliny's sphere, whose lavish annual embassies to emperor and governor Pliny pared back.
Reading notes
- The Letters §10.43.1 Byzantines
The people of Byzantium, a rich free city on the Bosporus, whose costly annual embassies Pliny trimmed.