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Baiae

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[bey-yee] / ˈbeɪ yi /

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

Last week Archaeologist Amadeo Maiuri of the National Museum in Naples formally opened to the public a partially excavated Baiae.

From Time Magazine Archive

At Baiae Nero built the biggest bath, and a vast covered pool.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mother of Italy! dost thou still survive muttering thy strange warnings in some sunless labyrinth, that the rapacious guides of Baiae have yet failed to penetrate?

From The Naples Riviera by Vaughan, Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp)

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