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Baiae
Fashionable seaside resort on the Bay of Naples; hot springs, villas, and (by Cicero's day) a reputation for moral laxity.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 13.52 §2 the next at Baiae
Baiae, the fashionable luxury resort on the Bay of Naples famed for its hot springs and seaside villas, the next stop on Caesar's itinerary after Puteoli.
- Ad Familiares 9.2 §5 I should not have you go to Baiae until the noise has gone hoarse
Baiae, on the Bay of Naples, was Rome's most fashionable seaside resort, notorious for luxury and pleasure-seeking; Cicero jokes that for ruined Pompeians to be seen there now (for 'swimming' rather than 'weeping') would look frivolous and improper.
- Ad Familiares 9.12 §1 I congratulate our friends at Baiae
Baiae, on the Bay of Naples, was the most fashionable Roman resort, famed for its hot mineral springs and its reputation for luxury and loose living. Cicero teases Dolabella, who is staying there, that the springs have suddenly turned healthful only because they are flattering him.