or MISENUM, 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 Interum; as he had another at Ravenna for the Supercum.

On this peninsula a villa was built by Caius Marius, with a degree of elegance that gave great offence to the most 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