Caieta

In Roman mythology, Caieta (Ancient Greek: Καιήτη, Cāiēta) was the wet-nurse of Aeneas.

The Roman poet Vergil locates her grave on the bay at Gaeta, to which she also gives her name (cf.

[1] The poet Ovid, working a generation later, provides an epitaph: "Here me, Caieta, snatched from Grecian flames, my pious son consumed with fitting fire.

"[3] The fourth-century commentator Servius writes that there was some controversy about whose wet-nurse Caieta was: in addition to Aeneas, he offers Creusa and Ascanius as possibilities.

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