Note 118 — BOOK VI
John Clarke translation
In Seneca’s letters, frequent reference is made to his visits to the district. He seems generally to have taken a villa at Baiae, or some adjacent place on that western part of the coast. He appears to have been a poor sailor, glad to make for the nearest landing-place between Baiae and Naples, so as to escape from the pangs of sea-sickness. On one of his excursions he revisited Pompeii, and was set into a reverie of his youth there. See his Letters, 49, 51, 53, 55, 57, 70, 77.