person
Caieta
Aeneas's nurse, who died and was buried on the Italian coast at the place (modern Gaeta) thereafter named for her.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §14.438 shore that does not yet bear his nurse's name
The future Caieta (Gaeta), to be named for Aeneas's nurse, who will be buried there (the epitaph is given at the end of Macareus's tale).
- Metamorphoses §14.450 CAIETA
Aeneas's nurse, who gives her name to the harbor of Caieta (Gaeta); her epitaph says her devoted 'nursling' (Aeneas) cremated her, rescued from the burning of Troy ('the Argive fire').