Naples
place · 4 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages
that prison · the Neapolitans · the tunnel of Naples
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
City in Campania
Lo, Campania, and above all Naples and the sight of your beloved Pompeii, have made my longing for you fresh again—it is past belief;
This man has buried himself at Tarentum, that one has shut himself up at Naples, this one for many years has not crossed the threshold of his own house.
after the wrestler's oil came the dust upon us, in the tunnel of Naples.
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
A city cited as the site of barbershops openly advertising the castration of boys.
It is not long since you might have seen at Naples, written in great letters over the doors of certain barbers, Qui si castrano mar avigliosamente i puti:
Tusculan Disputations
Italian city where Pompey fell gravely ill and later recovered amid public celebration.
For our friend Pompeius, when he was grievously sick at Naples, things took a turn for the better.
The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
City near which Lucullus built his private seawater channel.
Thus Lucullus once brought the water of the sea to his villa by cutting a tunnel through a mountain near Naples.