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Updated: June 18, 2025
Only one tower remains, with doors on first and second-floor level and a S. Mark's lion in relief. The island was the ancient Curicta, near which there was a sea-fight between the ships of Cæsar and Pompey in 49 B.C., when the Istrians took the part of the latter.
The war-vessels, which Caesar had given orders to build in the Gallic, Sicilian, and Italian ports, were not yet ready or at any rate not on the spot; his squadron in the Adriatic had been in the previous year destroyed at Curicta; he found at Brundisium not more than twelve ships of war and scarcely transports enough to convey over at once the third part of his army of twelve legions and 10,000 cavalry destined for Greece.
The war-vessels, which Caesar had given orders to build in the Gallic, Sicilian, and Italian ports, were not yet ready or at any rate not on the spot; his squadron in the Adriatic had been in the previous year destroyed at Curicta; he found at Brundisium not more than twelve ships of war and scarcely transports enough to convey over at once the third part of his army of twelve legions and 10,000 cavalry destined for Greece.
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