Caecubum, i, n., = Καίκουβον, a marshy place in Southern Latium, near Amyclae, distinguished for producing the most excellent kind of Roman wine, Mart. 13, 115.

— Deriv.: Caecubus, a, um, adj., Caecuban: ager, Col. 3, 8, 5; Plin. 2, 95, 96, § 209: agri, id. 3, 5, 9, § 60: vites, id. 17, 4, 3, § 31: vina, Hor S. 2, 8, 15.

—And subst.: Caecubum, i, n. (sc. vinum), Caecuban wine, Hor. C. 1, 20, 9; 1, 37, 5; id. Epod. 9, 1; 9, 36.

—Plur., Hor. C. 2, 14, 25; Mart. 13, 115. (From a neglect of the vines, and still more from a canal made by Nero, which drew off the water, the vineyards here, even in the time of Pliny the elder, were in a state of decay, Plin. 14, 6, 8, § 61.)