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Baiae

American  
[bey-yee] / ˈbeɪ yi /

noun

  1. an ancient resort city in SW Italy, near Naples: villas of Caesar, Nero, and Pompey.


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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

May I sing to thee As thou wast hymned on the shores of Baiae?

From Time Magazine Archive

From about the time Julius Caesar was a problem child, Baiae, a few miles north of modern Naples, was Rome's ritziest seaside resort.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just before the end he withdrew to Baiae, leaving Antoninus in charge at Rome.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Marvin, Frederic Rowland