place
Arretium
also: Arretino
A city in Etruria (modern Arezzo, Tuscany), about 80 miles north of Rome, near an estate of Messalla. Its cold country river stands for the dreary rustic exile Sulpicia dreads spending her birthday in.
Reading notes
- The Elegies §14 Arretium
A city in Etruria (modern Arezzo, Tuscany), about 80 miles north of Rome. Sulpicia's patron Messalla apparently had an estate nearby, and a country birthday there represented the antithesis of sophisticated urban Roman life that the poet prizes.