place
Misenum
also: Misenum, Miseni
A promontory and harbour at the north-western end of the Bay of Naples in Campania, a fashionable villa district; Cicero promises Atticus a topographical sketch of it and Puteoli at Att. 1.13.5.
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 15.1 §2 he came to Misenum while I was at the Pompeian villa
Misenum, the promontory and harbour at the north end of the Bay of Naples; like Pompeii and Puteoli, one of the Campanian resort towns where Cicero and the political players had villas in spring 44 BC.