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MINERVA PROMONTORIUM

Volume 17 · 56 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, the seat of the Sirens, a promontory in the Sinus Paefanum, the south-boundary of Campania on the Tuscan coast; so called from a temple of Minerva on it; situated to the south of Surrentum, and therefore called SURRENTIUM. Now Capo della Minerva, on the west coast of Naples, over against the island Capri.