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Any of various cities in the Hellenistic world, especially Naples
54 BCE,
Cicero,
Pro Rabirio Postumo 26:
- sed et nobilis adulescentis et quosdam etiam senatores summo loco natos non in hortis aut suburbanis suis, sed Neapoli, in celeberrimo oppido {{{...}}}
Anonymous,
De Bello Africo 2.6.2:
- Clupeam classe praetervehitur, dein Neapolim; complura praeterea castella et oppida non longe a mari relinquit.
Appendix Vergiliana,
Aetna 429–433:
- discitur indiciis flagrasse Aenaria quondam,
nunc extincta super testisque Neapolin inter
et Cumas locus est, multis iam frigidus annis,
quamvis aeternum pingui scatet ubere sulphur
(in mercem legitur, tanto est fecundius Aetna).
1651, Gerhard Johann Vossius, De Historicis Latinis, Book 2, p. 297:
- PAULLUS, diaconus ecclesiæ Neapolios, transtulit vitam S. Mariæ, priùs Ægyptiæ meretricis, quam Sophronius, Hierosolymitanus episcopus, scripserat.
1723, Joannes Augustus de Berger, Succincta commentatio de imperio Maris Adriatici Caesari, p. 137:
- Hinc & compertum est, Regnum Neapoleos olim sub illo Siciliæ fuisse comprehensum, atque SICILIÆ ULTERIORIS adpellatione præditum.