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  • Siniša Bilić-Dujmušić

    Roman Frontier Studies 2009, 06/2017
    Book Chapter

    Antiqua arte Cilix is an expression used in Lucan’s Pharsalia to describe a sea-trap (or ship-trap) which was employed by Cilician pirates to stop and capture merchant ships. In this instance, however, the shiptrap was used in the battle between Caesarian and Pompeian forces off the island of Curicta (today Krk in Croatia, Figure 1) in the northern Adriatic in the summer of 49 BC. This paper will suggest a possible reconstruction of the device. Today, the battle itself is an obscure event. We do not have much surviving information and hardly anyone has ever heard of it, but it