ALSIETINUS LACUS (mod. Lago di Martignano)  , a small

lake in southern Etruria, 15 m. due N.N.W. of Rome, in an extinct crater . Augustus drew from it the Aqua Alsietina; the water was hardly fit to drink, and was mainly intended to supply his naumachia (lake made for a sham naval battle) at Rome, near S . Francesco a Ripa, on the right bank of the Tiber, where some traces of the aqueduct were perhaps found in 1720 . The course of the aqueduct, which was mainly subterranean, is practically unknown: Frontinus tells us that it received a branch from the lake of Bracciano near Careiae (Galera): and an inscription relating to it was found in this district in 1887 (F . Barnabei, Notizie degli Scavi, 1887, 18r) .