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Cumæan, a. and n.|kjuːˈmiːən|
[f. Cumæ (L. Cūmæ, Gr. κύµη), an ancient city on the Italian coast near Naples, founded by the Greeks in the 8th cent. b.c. + -an.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Cumæ, esp. famous for the Sibyl mentioned by Virgil in the ‘æneid’.
B. n. A native or inhabitant of Cumæ.
1731J. Trapp Works Virgil II. 347 Have you been led thro' the Cumæan Cave, And heard th 'impatient Maid divinely rave? 1803C. Wilmot Let. 6 Mar. (1920) 168 Aeneas..landed at the Cumaean shore a little way from the Lake Avernus. 1870Brewer Dict. Phr. & Fable 819/1 The Cumæan sibyl was the conductor of Virgil to the infernal regions. 1931D. Randall-MacIver Gk. Cities in Italy & Sicily i. 6 The Cumaeans, says Pausanias, showed a small stone urn in the cemetery of Apollo which they said contained her [sc. the Sibyl's] bones. 1968Encycl. Brit. VI. 889/1 The antrum (cave) famous in legend as the seat of the oracle of the Cumaean Sibyl. |