Cumae

[ kyoo-mee ]

/ ˈkyu mi /

an ancient city in SW Italy, on the coast of Campania: believed to be the earliest Greek colony in Italy or in Sicily.

OTHER WORDS FROM Cumae

Cu·mae·an, adjective

The Cumaean Sibyl has prophesied that Rome will possess the earth.

Historical Miniatures |August Strindberg
They are famous in legend as the seat of the oracle of the Cumaean Sibyl.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 |Various
Colonel Deacon, who listened to her every word as to the utterance of a Cumaean oracle, laughed with extraordinary approbation.

Tales of Chinatown |Sax Rohmer
Admit the figure of the Cumaean Sibyl, in like manner, to be the coinage only of Virgil's brain.

Ariadne Florentina |John Ruskin

She was as light as a feather, a leaf, the down of the thistle; mysterious as the Cumaean Sibyl; and I wondered who she might be.

Hearts and Masks |Harold MacGrath

Cumae

/ (ˈkjuːmiː) /

the oldest Greek colony in Italy, founded about 750 bc near Naples

Cumaean, adjective