Misenum

She removed afterwards, and dwelt near the place called Misenum, not at all altering her former way of living.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

She was clearly enduring a harsher existence than she had been used to in Misenum—a capricious life, the life of a slave, determined not so much by the status itself as by the character of the master: Lucullus would not even have noticed she existed.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Both had been stuck outside the city for a long while waiting for the Senate to vote them their triumphs—years, in the case of Lucullus, who had whiled away his time building a vast retreat at Misenum on the Bay of Naples as well as his mansion north of Rome.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Secrecy was absolutely vital to his plans, and the longer he lingered in Misenum the more he feared his presence would become known.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

Seeing Lucullus had stirred a remembrance of Agathe, and I had a nightmare in which I asked him about her and he told me he had no idea whom I meant but that all his slaves in Misenum were dead.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

He slept throughout the entire journey and woke only toward the end of the afternoon as we jolted down the narrow lane to Misenum, where Lucullus had his—well, I was going to call it a house, but the word hardly fits that veritable palace of pleasure, the Villa Cornelia, which he had bought and extended on the coast.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

The Pact of Puteoli or Misenum or whatever you want to call it gave Sextus proconsular imperium over the Islands as well as the Peloponnese.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

The Pact of Puteoli or Misenum or whatever you want to call it gave Sextus proconsular imperium over the Islands as well as the Peloponnese.

Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

Empire he was carried from Misenum to Rome in the midst of a throng of people, the ways beset with altars, and beasts for sacrifice, and burning torches; and of Caracalla, that was received into

Leviathan 2007

This was not an isolated incident, but merely the most daring in a long line of such outrages, which included the kidnapping of the noble Lady Antonia from her villa in Misenum she whose own father had led an expedition against the pirates!

Imperium Robert Harris 2006