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Baiae

American  
[bay-yee] / ˈbeɪ ji /

noun

  1. an ancient resort city in SW Italy, near Naples: villas of Caesar, Nero, and Pompey.


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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

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

From about the time Julius Caesar was a problem child, Baiae, a few miles north of modern Naples, was Rome's ritziest seaside resort.

From Time Magazine Archive

They were then at Baiae; and here the party stopped at a little inn, where they proposed to dine.

From Among the Brigands by James De Mille

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