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Cumae

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Cu·mae  (kym)
An ancient city and Greek colony of south-central Italy near present-day Naples. Founded c. 750 b.c., it is the earliest Greek settlement known in Italy. Cumae adopted Roman culture after the second century b.c. and gradually declined as neighboring cities rose to power.
Cumae [ˈkjuːmiː]
n
(Historical Terms) the oldest Greek colony in Italy, founded about 750 bc near Naples
Cumaean  adj
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Nero's Baths, the ruins of Baiae, the Temple of Serapis; Cumae, where the Cumaen Sybil interpreted the oracles, the Lake Agnano, with its ancient submerged city still visible far down in its depths--these and a hundred other points of interest we examined with critical imbecility, but the Grotto of the Dog claimed our chief attention, because we had heard and read so much about it.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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