Oppian states that he is from 'the city of Hermes' and the 'city at the promontory of Sarpedon'.Halieutica 3.9, 3.205-209 This has been supplemented by information from the biographies attached to medieval manuscripts, which state that his birthplace was Caesarea (now known as Anazarbus) or Corycus in Cilicia,Mair, A.W. 1928. Oppian, Colluthus, Tryphiodorus., Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge (MA), xiii-xv. or Corycus according to the Suda. All these cities were in the Roman province of Cilicia.
