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- An ancient city and Greek colony of south-central Italy near present-day Naples. Founded c. 750 BC, it was among the earliest Greek settlements in Italy. It later featured prominently in Roman legend as the site of a cave housing a sibyl.
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Ancient Greek , and thenRoman , settlement nearNaples famed for itssibyl .
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She, they say, was of Babylonian extraction, being the daughter of Berosus, who wrote the Chaldaean History; and when she had crossed over (how, I know not) into the region of Campania, she there uttered her oracular sayings in a city called Cumae, six miles from
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001
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Apparently, he went to the city of Cumae, an old Greek city on the coast about twenty-five miles northwest of Vesuvius.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Apparently, he went to the city of Cumae, an old Greek city on the coast about twenty-five miles northwest of Vesuvius.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Apparently, he went to the city of Cumae, an old Greek city on the coast about twenty-five miles northwest of Vesuvius.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Apparently, he went to the city of Cumae, an old Greek city on the coast about twenty-five miles northwest of Vesuvius.
The Spartacus War Barry Strauss 2009
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Tony and Annalisa visit the sit of the Sibylla of Cumae, a famous oracle centuries ago.
Sopranos episode guide #17: Commendatori DAVID BISHOP 2007
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Tony and Annalisa visit the sit of the Sibylla of Cumae, a famous oracle centuries ago.
Archive 2007-04-01 DAVID BISHOP 2007
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Now if the scene of the dinner is actually at Cumae this sounds very peculiar; it might even be a gloss added by some copyist whose knowledge was not equal to his industry.
Satyricon 2007
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Mommsen, in an excellent paper (Hermes, 1878), has laid the scene at Cumae.
Satyricon 2007
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The traditional dating for Zopyrus puts him in the first half of the fourth century (Marsden 1971, 98, n. 52), but Kingsley has convincingly argued that he was in fact active in the last quarter of the fifth century, when he designed artillery for Cumae and Miletus (1995, 150 ff.).
Pythagoreanism Huffman, Carl 2006
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