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
Whenever trouble brewed in ancient Rome, messengers sped south to the Cumaean Rock, a many-chambered volcanic promontory twelve miles west of Naples.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everybody knows the description given by Virgil of the Cumaean sybil at the moment of vaticination: "The god, the god, she cried," etc.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
