perusia

name

1. (historical)An ancient Etruscan and later Roman city which eventually became present-day Perugia, Italy.

   “That is, Fabius marched to relieve Sutrium, defeated the Etruscans there, crossed the Ciminian wood, defeated another Etruscan army near Perusia, and then made indutiae with Arretium, Cortona, and Perusia.”

   “Perusia has the epithet ‘Augusta’ in two inscriptions, and another refers to ‘Perusia Restituta’, which should most naturally restoration after the destruction of 40.¹²⁶ This implies that the city enjoyed Augustus' favour, as Saddington notes;¹²⁷ but that is no reason for largely rejecting the accounts of Imperator Caesar's punishment of Perusia in 40, excepting the fantasy of a massacre of the curial class.”

   “The siege of Perusia in 41 seems, additionally, to have cost him^([Propertius]) a relative, a figure mentioned in elegy 1.22 and often identified with the Gallus who speaks in 1.21.”