He sojourned first at Vibo, in the extreme south of Italy, intending to pass from thence into Sicily.
It was there that he learned that a certain distance had been prescribed; but it seems that he had already heard that the Proconsular Governor of the island would not receive him, fearing Caesar.

Then he came north from Vibo to Brundisium, that being the port by which travellers generally went from Italy to the East.

He had determined to leave his family in Rome, feeling, probably, that it would be easier for him to find a temporary home for himself than for him and them together.
And there were money difficulties in which Atticus helped him.[280] Atticus, always wealthy, had now become a very rich man by the death of an uncle.

We do not know of what nature were the money arrangements made by Cicero at the time, but there can be no doubt that the losses by his exile were very great.

There was a thorough disruption of his property, for which the subsequent generosity of his country was unable altogether to atone.