Baiae
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
At Baiae Nero built the biggest bath, and a vast covered pool.
From Time Magazine Archive
May I sing to thee As thou wast hymned on the shores of Baiae?
From Time Magazine Archive
At the same time you ask leave to visit the Baths of Baiae.
From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas
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