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Caiēta

The modern Gaeta; a town in Latium on the borders of Campania, situated on a promontory of the same name, and on a bay of the sea called, after it, Sinus Caietanus. It possessed an excellent harbour, and was said to have derived its name from Caieta, the nurse of Aeneas.

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