(Livy, Strabo:) a town of Campania; so called either from its wells, there being many hot and cold springs thereabouts; or from its stench, putor, caused by sulphureous exhalations, (Varro, Strabo): Anciently called Dicearchia, from its equal and just government.—The port of Cumæ, a place of great trade, probably built by the Cumæans; situated on the brow of a hill. (id.) A Roman colony, (Livy;) surnamed Augusta, under Nero, (Frontinus). Puteolani, the people, (Cicero). Now Pozzuoli, nine miles to the west of Naples. E. Long. 14. 40. N. Lat. 41. 15.