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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 578 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MISENUM , an See also:

ancient See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

CAMPANIA

Campania, See also:

Italy, about 3 M. S. of Baiae (q.v.) at the western extremity of the Gulf of See also:

PUTEOLI (mod. Pozzuoli, q.v.)

Puteoli (See also:

POZZUOLI (anc. Puteoli, q.v.)

Pozzuoli). Until the end of the See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic it was dependent on See also:

CUMAE (Gr. Kb/.m)

Cumae, and was a favourite See also:

VILLA

villa resort. See also:

Agrippa made the See also:

FINE

fine natural harbour into the See also:

main See also:

NAVAL

naval station of the Mediterranean See also:

FLEET

fleet, and founded a See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony there probably in 31 B.C. The See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor Tiberius died in his villa here. Its importance lasted until the decline of the fleet in the 4th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century A.D. It was at first an See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent episcopal see: See also:

Gregory the See also:

GREAT

Great See also:

UNITED

united it with that of Cumae. In 890 it was destroyed by the See also:

SARACENS

Saracens. The name was derived from one of the companions of Ulysses, or from See also:

AENEAS

Aeneas' See also:

TRUMPETER

trumpeter, an See also:

account of whose See also:

BURIAL

burial is given in See also:

Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 232. The harbour consisted of the See also:

OUTER

outer See also:

basin, or See also:

PORTO

Porto di Miseno, protected by moles, of which remains still exist, and the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

MARE

Mare Morto, separated from it by a comparatively See also:

MODERN

modern See also:

EMBANKMENT

embankment. The town See also:

LAY

lay on the See also:

south See also:

side of the outer harbour, near the See also:

VILLAGE

village of Miseno, where remains of a See also:

THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre and See also:

BATHS

baths and the See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions See also:

RELATING

relating to the town have been found.

Remains of villas can also be traced, and to the largest of these, which occupied the See also:

SUMMIT

summit of the promontory, and belonged first to See also:

MARIUS, GAIUS (r55–86 B.c.)

Marius, then to See also:

LUCULLUS

Lucullus, and then to the imperial See also:

house, probably belongs the subterranean Grotta Dragonara. Roads ran See also:

north to Baiae and north-See also:

west past the modern Torre Gaveta to Cumae: along the See also:

LINE

line of both are numerous columbaria. See J. Beloch, Campanien, ed. ii. (See also:

BRESLAU (Polish Wraclaw)

Breslau, 1890), 190 sqq. (T.

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