or MISENUS, in Ancient Geography; a promontory, port, and town in Campania, situated to the south-west of Baiae, in the Sinus Puteolanus, on the north side. Here Augustus had a fleet, called Clavis Misenumis, for guarding the Mare Internum; as he had another at Ravenna for the Superum.

On this peninsula a villa was built by Caius Marius, with a degree of elegance that gave great offence to the more austere among the Romans, who thought it ill suited to the character of so rough a soldier. Upon the same foundation Lucullus the plunderer of the eastern world, erected an edifice, in comparison of which the former house was a cottage; but even his magnificence was eclipsed by the splendour of the palace which the emperors raised upon the same spot. To these proud abodes Miser, abodes of heroes and monarchs, which have long been levelled to the ground, a few fishing huts, as Mr Swinburne informs us, and a lonely public house, have succeeded; hither boatmen resort to tipple perhaps on the identical site where the voluptuous matters of the world quaffed Chian and Falernian wines.