Capreae

P. R. 4. 92; Defens. (2) 6. 27. An island on the coast of Camp an i a, of which Sandys writes thus: “We pa ed between this cape [of Minerva] and Caprse, an island distant three miles from the same, small and rocky, having no Haven nor convenient station. But the air is there mild, even during the Winter, being defended from the bitter North by the Surrentine Mountains, and by the West-wind, to which it lies open, refreshed in the Summer; po e ing on all sides the pleasure of the Sea, and the delicate Prospects of Vesuvium, Naples, Cuma, and the adjoyning Islands.... Tyberius made by his cruelty and lusts, both infamous and unhappy; who hither withdrawing from the affairs of the Common-wealth, for that the Island was unacce ible on all sides by reason of the Caprse, upright clifts, except only at one place, no man being suffered to land but upon especial admittance, hence sent his Mandates of death.” (Pp. 196-7.) Milton perhaps visited Capreae when in ch085.xhtml n 88