place
Baiae
also: Baiani
The fashionable seaside resort on the Bay of Naples, byword for luxury and idleness; Pliny names it as the haunt of the soft emperor Domitian.
Reading notes
- The Letters §9.7.3 Baiae
The fashionable seaside resort on the Bay of Naples; Pliny likens the siting of his two lakeside villas to its manner of building.
- Panegyric to Trajan §82 Baiae
The luxurious seaside resort on the Bay of Naples, a byword for soft living; named as Domitian's haunt, against Trajan's hardy pursuits.