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Bais: a famous Campanian watering-place near Naples. Cf. 3.4.24; Epist. 1.1.83. For villas built out into the water, cf. 3.1.33-38; Martial, 10.30; Hare's Days near Rome. obstrepentis: cf. 3.30.10. 20-21. submovere litora: to push out the shore line.


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