City
Sinuessa
Torre S. Limato
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Sinuessa took its name, according to the Greek geographer Strabo, from the bay it lay on, since sinus is Latin for bay, and the Roman historian Livy adds that a Greek town called Sinope once stood here. Rome planted a coastal colony on the site in the early third century BC, at Torre San Limato near Mondragone in Italy. Its hot springs were famed for curing illness, and Cicero kept a country house here. Yet the map gives it only the usual pair of towers; a spa sign might be expected, but the name holds no form of Aquae. Here the Via Domitiana branched off towards Puteoli.