place
Paestum
A Lucanian coastal city famous for its roses.
Reading notes
- Letters from the Black Sea §2.4 Paestum's roses
Paestum in Campania, famed for its twice-blooming roses; the standard of fragrance no marigold could outdo — another impossibility.
- Metamorphoses §15.508 warm Paestum
The Lucanian city famed for its roses.