MISENUM , an See also: ancient See also:harbour See also:town of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, about 3 M. S. of Baiae (q.v.) at the western extremity of the Gulf of See also:Puteoli (See also:Pozzuoli). Until the end of the See also:Republic it was dependent on See also:Cumae, and was a favourite See also:villa resort. See also:Agrippa made the See also:fine natural harbour into the See also:main See also:naval station of the Mediterranean See also:fleet, and founded a See also:colony there probably in 31 B.C. The See also:emperor Tiberius died in his villa here. Its importance lasted until the decline of the fleet in the 4th See also:century A.D. It was at first an See also:independent episcopal see: See also:- GREGORY
- GREGORY (Gregorius)
- GREGORY (Grigorii) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1734-1783)
- GREGORY, EDWARD JOHN (1850-19o9)
- GREGORY, OLINTHUS GILBERT (1774—1841)
- GREGORY, ST (c. 213-C. 270)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NAZIANZUS (329–389)
- GREGORY, ST, OF NYSSA (c.331—c. 396)
- GREGORY, ST, OF TOURS (538-594)
Gregory the See also:Great See also:united it with that of Cumae. In 890 it was destroyed by the See also:Saracens. The name was derived from one of the companions of Ulysses, or from See also:Aeneas' See also:trumpeter, an See also:account of whose See also:burial is given in See also:Virgil, Aeneid, vi. 232.
The harbour consisted of the See also:outer See also:basin, or See also:Porto di Miseno, protected by moles, of which remains still exist, and the See also:present See also:Mare Morto, separated from it by a comparatively See also:modern See also:embankment. The town See also:lay on the See also:south See also:side of the outer harbour, near the See also:village of Miseno, where remains of a See also:theatre and See also:baths and the See also:inscriptions See also: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 of the promontory, and belonged first to See also:Marius, then to See also: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 of both are numerous columbaria.
See J. Beloch, Campanien, ed. ii. (See also:Breslau, 1890), 190 sqq. (T.
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