Pompeii

[ pom-pey, -pey-ee ]

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noun

an ancient city in SW Italy, on the Bay of Naples: it was buried along with Herculaneum by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79; much of the city has been excavated.

Pompeii

/ pɒmˈpeɪiː /

an ancient city in Italy, southeast of Naples: buried by an eruption of Vesuvius (79 ad ); excavation of the site, which is extremely well preserved, began in 1748

Pompeii

A city of the Roman Empire , on the Italian seacoast, that was known for the luxury and dissipated ways of its citizens. It was destroyed in the first century by an eruption of nearby Mount Vesuvius .

Yea, OK, so Pompeii has movies with Jon Snow, songs, and millions of visitors—but is it under water?!

I came back from doing Pompeii and that had helped me with my fighting skills.

Pompeii is an easy target because of its size and because it is badly guarded.

Husks of homes, some of them choked in jungular vines, furnish a tropical Pompeii for viewers on the disaster bus tours.

Pompeii is at risk of becoming a wasteland as its ruins disintegrate to dust due to lack of maintenance.

The view which here presents itself is much more impressive than that at Pompeii, near Naples.

Unlike Pompeii, it was not covered by protecting ashes, but laid openly exposed to the weather.

Will this farce never have an end until the escaped gas blows up the colliery, and makes of it and of us a new Pompeii?

What remains to us, in the mural decorations of Pompeii and the designs on vases, seem to confirm the criticisms of the ancients.

There is a wall painting of such a scene, found at Pompeii and reproduced in Fig. 12.

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