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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. Caietae Portus). The poet Ovid, working generation later, provides an epitaph:

HIC • ME • CAIETAM • NOTAE • PIETATIS • ALVMNUS

EREPTAM • ARGOLICO • QVO • DEBVIT • IGNE • CREMAVIT

"Here me, "Caieta," snatched from Grecian flames, my pious son consumed with fitting fire." 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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