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its  celebrity  at  this  period,  and  the  arts  continued -
  to  flourish  there.  Horace  speaks  highly
of  the  Cumean  vases;  but  war  and  pestilence
afterwards  united  to  ruin  Cumae,  which  in  the
time  of  Juvenal  had  already  acquired  the  appellation -
  of  Vacua  Cuma.  This  town  was
nevertheless  considered  of  some  importance  in
the  early  ages,  on  account  of  its  fortifications.
Totila  and  Teja,  kings  of  the  Goths,  chose
it  as  the  most  secure  place  for  the  depository
of  their  treasures.  It  was  besieged  by  Narseta, -
  who  could  only  gain  access  to  it,  through
a  subterraneous  opening,  called  the  Sibyl's
Grotto.  It  was  also  taken  by  Romuald,  second -
  duke  of  Beneventum,  in  715,  and  afterwards -
  entirely  destroyed  by  the  Neapolitans,
in  1207.
On  the  summit  of  the  mountain  stood  the
famous  Temple  of  Apollo  Sanatorius,  the
false  god  of  the  Calcedonian  colony,  where  the
Cumeans  erected  the  celebrated  statue  of
Apollo,  which  was  brought  to  Cumae  from
Attica,  and  which,  according  to  historians,
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