Sinuessa

Sinuessa was a city of Latium, in the more extended sense of the name, situated on the Tyrrhenian Sea, about 10 km north of the mouth of the Volturno River [1]. It was on the line of the Via Appia, and was the last place where that great highroad touched on the sea-coast [1]. The ruins of the city are located in the modern-day comune of Sessa Aurunca [1]. At a short distance from Sinuessa were the baths or thermal springs called Aquae Sinuessanae which appear to have enjoyed a great reputation among the Romans [1]. Pliny tells us they were esteemed a remedy for barrenness in women and for insanity in men [1]. They are already mentioned by Livy as early as the Second Punic War; and though their fame was eclipsed at a later period by those of Baiae and other fashionable watering-places, they still continued in use under the Empire, and were resorted to among others by the emperor Claudius [1].