Sylla, in the language of a soldier, praised his peritia castrametandi(Plin. Hist. Natur. xviii. 7). Phaedrus, who makes its shady walks (laeta viridia) the scene of an insipid fable (ii. 5), has thus described the situation:
Caesar Tiberius quam petens Neapolim,
In Misenensem villam venisset suam;
Quæ monte summo posita Luculli manu
Prospectat Siculum et prospicit Tuscum mare.