Cumae
noun
an ancient city in SW Italy, on the coast of Campania: believed to be the earliest Greek colony in Italy or in Sicily.
Cumaean
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a word derived from
Cumae.
Example Sentences
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Called “The Four Sibyls,” the frescoes depict the female seers of ancient Greek and Roman mythology, including the Roman, Cumaean, Erythraean and Delphic sibyls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2025
Katherine spends her days sightseeing in the Museum of Archaeology and experiencing a tremor of anxiety at the Cave of the Cumaean Sibyl.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2013
The epigram to The Waste Land, which concerns the Cumaean Sibyl, rings strangely among these standing irons.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2012
Dr. Maiuri, delighted by the reality of what for 2,400 years had been deemed legend, stood silent, heard naught but the clop clop of water dripping from the crevices of the Cumaean Rock.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the coming of the Cumaean Demeter into the religious world of Rome is but the sacred parallel to the coming of Cumaean grain into the material world of Rome.
From The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome by Jesse Benedict Carter
