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Sentence Examples
When they are to arrive in Italy they are to seek out a prophetess called the Sibyl at Cumae.
Very soon Cumae spread its power over the whole Phlegraean area, including Naples.
Founded about 750 bc by Greeks from Chalcis, Cumae came to control the most fertile portions of the Campanian plain.
Arriving at Cumae, heĀ grasps the golden bough that grows among the woods of Avernus and descends to the Underworld.
Barracco, encountering in Naples Giuseppe Fiorelli, the secretary of Conte Leopoldo and the director of the excavations at Cumae, was able to cultivate his passion for archaeological studies.
From about 700 bc, expansion and accompanying colonization brought the Ionians of Euboea to eastern Sicily and Cumae near Naples, and Samians to Nagidus and Celenderis in Pamphylia.
Marseille enjoyed great prosperity in the fifth century BC, through the period of calm in the western Mediterranean after the defeat at Himera Carthage in 480 BC The Etruscans were defeated in turn by the Syracusans to Cumae.
From here the Greek colonizers reached the coast and around 725 B. C. founded Cumae, which in a short time controlled the bay, which was the bay of Cumae.
When the Etruscans attacked the Greek foundation of Cumae in 524 bce, their advance was finally checked by their defeat at the hands of Aristodemus of that city.
It is generally believed that the Romans adopted the Cumae alphabet, a variant of the Greek alphabet, in the 7th century BC from Cumae, a Greek colony in Southern Italy.
Examples from Classical Literature
For there was no stronghold in Campania except those at Cumae and at Naples.
And he also sent to Cumae as large a garrison as he thought would be sufficient to guard the fortress there.
Cumae refused to give a pension to Homer, for fear that all the blind men would ask for a pension.
He inspected the cave of the Sibylla of Cumae, but what it meant to him we do not know.
Thus Hermes travelled with the grain merchant from Cumae and became known to the Romans.
There was a volcanic lake near Cumae called Avernus, whose waters gave out sulphureous vapours.
There is little doubt that the Apollo-cult spread from Cumae northwards, and was by this time well established in Italy.
The only objection to Cumae being the place is the passage in ch.
In the epigraph the Sibyle of Cumae looks at the future and proclaims that she only wants to die.
The Sibyl of Cumae, wooed by Apollo, was offered a year of life for every grain of sand she could gather in one hand.
The Sybil of Cumae, like all good prophetesses, was not entirely specific in her utterings.
Mommsen, in an excellent paper, has laid the scene at Cumae.
She remembers her past life as the Sibyl of Cumae, a Roman oracle whose powers are now being channeled by the Vatican to maintain world control.
Puteoli itself under the name Dicaearchia was probably founded by Cumae.
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