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InRoman mythology,Caieta (Ancient Greek:Καιήτη,Cāiēta) was thewet-nurse ofAeneas. The Roman poetVergil locates her grave on the bay atGaeta, to which she also gives her name (cf.Caietae Portus).[1] The poetOvid, working a generation later, provides an epitaph:[2]
"Here me, Caieta, snatched from Grecian flames, my pious son consumed with fitting fire."[3] The fourth-century commentatorServius writes that there was some controversy about whose wet-nurse Caieta was: in addition to Aeneas, he offersCreusa andAscanius as possibilities.[4]
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