Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), L, Lonché, Lucrīnus Lacus

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Lucrīnus Lacus

Properly the inner part of the Sinus Cumanus or Puteolanus, a bay on the coast of Campania, between the promontory Misenum and Puteoli, running a considerable way inland. But at a very early period the Lucrine Lake was separated from the remainder of the bay by a dike eight stadia in length, and thus assumed the character of an inland lake. Its waters still remained salt, and were celebrated for their oyster beds. Behind the Lucrine Lake was another lake called Lacus Avernus. In the time of Augustus, Agrippa made a communication between Lake Avernus and the Lucrine Lake, and also between the Lucrine Lake and the Sinus Cumanus, thus forming out of the three the celebrated Harbour. The Lucrine Lake was filled up by a volcanic eruption in 1538, when a conical mountain rose in its place, called Monte Nuovo.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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