Baiae
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
I purpose then to be present at Baiae at Minerva's feast, together with the Emperor, and will hold no second place.
From Nero by Phillips, Stephen
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