TRASIMENE, LAKE (Lat. Trasumeltus Lacus; Ital. Lago Trasimeno)

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TRASIMENE, LAKE (Lat. Trasumeltus Lacus; Ital. Lago Trasimeno) , a lake of Umbria, Italy, 12 M. W. from Perugia, 843 ft. above sea-level, 3o m. in circumference, and
S M. to 14 M. across. Having no natural outlet, it was formerly subject to sudden rises, which occasioned inundations, and these in turn malaria. An artificial outlet was completed in 1898 from the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

corner of the lake to the Caina, a small tributary of the Tiber. The

work

WORK

, which is about 4 M. long, cost only about 26,000. It is intended to leave about 2500 acres of land dry, and to convert another 2800 acres of marshy soil into cultivable land. The lake contains three small islands: Isola

Maggiore

MAGGIORE, LAGO (Lacus Verbanus of the Romans; Fr. Lac Majeur; Ger. Langensee)

, with a monastery, Isola Minore and Isola Polvese.

Standing

STANDING

on a promontory jutting out into the lake is the town of Castiglione del Lago, which possesses a castle of the dukes of Cornia, built by Galeazzo Alessi, the architect of many of the Genoese palaces.

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

I. formed a project for draining the lake, which may ultimately be adopted. Here Hannibal disastrously defeated the

consul

C. Flaminius. Hannibal left his winter quarters in Cisalpine Gaul in the

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

of 217 B.C. and crossed the Apennines, probably by the pass now known as the Passo dei Mandrioli (from Forli: to Bibbiena in the upper valley of the Arno). His

march

was much hindered by marshes (probably those in the Arno valley between Bibbiena and Arezzo). The Roman army under Flaminius was stationed at Arezzo (anc. Arretiuni), and Hannibal marched past it. Flaminius followed, and Hannibal occupied the heights on the north of the lake between Terontola and Tuoro, commanding the road from Cortona to Perugia, and also those on the

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

of Tuoro, so that when the Roman army (which had encamped the night before outside the entrance to the small valley of the brook now called Sanguineto, west of Tuoro), unable in the mists of early morning to see the enemy's forces, had entered the valley, it was surrounded and there was no escape except by forcing a passage. The vanguard succeeded in making their egress on the east by Passignano, but the defeat of the rest of the army was complete, the Romans losing no fewer than 15,000 men.
See T.

Ashby

ASHBY, TURNER (1824-1862)

in Journal of Philology (1908), and refs. (T. As.)

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