Lacus Benacus(84 words)
[German version]
Today Lago di Garda. Largest Alpine lake in the area of Verona (Plin. HN 9,75), with a length of 500 stadia (along the eastern shore road; cf. Str. 4,6,12; Plin. HN 2,224; 3,131); the river Mincius flows through it. It was navigable despite severe storms (Verg. G. 2,160). The Benacenses (TIR L 32,33) lived on the western shore.
Dietz, Karlheinz (Würzburg)
Bibliography
TIR L 32,80
A. Mosca, Caratteri della navigazione nell'area benacense in età romana, in: Latomus 50, 1991, 269-284.
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Dietz, Karlheinz (Würzburg),
“Lacus Benacus”, in:
Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry.
Consulted online on 22 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e628070>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510
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