Cuma

and Cumæ , a town of Æolia, in Asia Minor. The inhabitants have been accused of stupidity for not laying a tax upon all the goods which entered their harbour during 300 years. They were called Cumani . Strabo , bk. 13 .— Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 4 .――A city of Camp an i a, near Puteoli, founded by a colony from Chalcis and Cumæ, of Æolia, before the Trojan war. The inhabitants were called Cumæi and Cumani . There was one of the Sibyls that fixed her residence in a cave in the neighbourhood, and was called the Cumæan Sibyl. See: Sibyllæ .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 15 , li. 712 ; Fasti , bk. 4 , li. 158 ; Ex Ponto , bk. 2 , poem 8, li. 41 .— Cicero , De Lege Agraria contra Rullum , bk. 2 , ch. 26 .— Paterculus , bk. 1 , ch. 4 .— Virgil , Æneid , bk. 3 , li. 441 .— Livy , bk. 4 .— Ptolemy , bk. 3 .— Strabo , bk. 5 .