Miseno

[ mee-ze-naw ]

noun

1. a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: ruins of ancient Misenum, a Roman naval station and resort.

Miseno

/ miˈzɛːno /

noun

1. a cape in SW Italy, on the N shore of the Bay of Naples: remains of the town of Misenum , a naval base constructed by Agrippa in 31 bc

Example Sentences

According to his account, Pliny the Elder was then a fleet commander at Misenum - modern day Miseno - across the bay from Pompeii.

From BBC

But all the while a rosy glow was spreading over Cape Miseno, it ran along the coast of Bai�, and caught Posilipo with a delicate radiance.

From Project Gutenberg

The fleet which lay at Capo Miseno, the great naval station of those days, was commanded by one 46 Anicetus, a freedman, who, being of an ingenious mechanical turn of mind, devised a ship of a sort likely to prove useful to any tyrant anxious to speed his friends into the nether world without suspicion.

From Project Gutenberg

One looks down from the spine over a broken land of vineyards to a curved bay, an almost perfect semicircle, bounded on the left by the height of Posilipo, with the high crag of the Island of Nisida, and on the right by Capo Miseno, the point which took its name from the old Trojan trumpeter who made the long perilous voyage with �neas, but perished as he reached the promised land where at last the wanderers were to find rest.

From Project Gutenberg

Lower down in the vast prospect is the chain of Campanian mountains, which seem so lofty when one cannot look beyond them; and at their feet lies Naples, that queenly city with the long sweep of coast from Posilipo to Miseno, where the flames rose from the pyre of the Trojan trumpeter.

From Project Gutenberg