Baiae
Americannoun
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Once upon a time, a soothsayer had scoffed that the boy had no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding across the Bay of Baiae on horseback.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2015
In a gesture designed to appear conciliatory, Nero invited his mother, Agrippina, to join him at a festival in Baiae, a resort town near present-day Naples.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 26, 2015
May I sing to thee As thou wast hymned on the shores of Baiae?
From Time Magazine Archive
The vineyard owners would not sell their land, until at last, under Mussolini, who would have appreciated the Roman Baiae, the vineyards were expropriated and turned over to the diggers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Baiae was devastated by the Saracens in the 8th century and entirely deserted on account of malaria in 1500.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
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