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NEMORENSIS LACUS (mod. Nerni)
, a See also:lake in the See also:Alban Hills, in an See also:extinct subsidiary See also:crater in the See also:outer See also:ring of the See also:ancient Alban crater, E. of the Lake of Albano
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It is about AM. m. in See also:diameter and some s so ft. deep; the precipitous slopes of its See also:basin are over 300 ft. high, and on the See also:side towards the See also:modern See also:village a See also:good See also:deal more, and are mainly cultivated
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It is now remarkable for its picturesque beauty
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In ancient times it was included in the territory of Aricia_ and See also:bore the name " See also:Mirror of See also:Diana." The See also:worship of Diana here was a very ancient one, and, as among the Scythians, was originally, so it was said, celebrated with human sacrifices; even in imperial times the See also:priest of Diana was a See also:man of See also:low See also:condition, a gladiator or a fugitive slave, who won his position by slaying his predecessor in fight, having first plucked a mistletoe bough from the sacred See also: On the W. side of the lake remains of two See also:ships (really floating palaces moored to the See also:shore) have been found, one belonging to the See also:time of Caligula (as is indicated by an inscription on a See also:lead See also:pipe), and measuring 210 ft. long by 66 wide, the other even larger, 233 by 8o ft . The first was decorated with See also:marbles and mosaics, and with some very See also:fine bronze beamheads, with heads of wolves and lions having rings for hawsers in their mouths (and one of a See also:Medusa), now in the Museo delle Terme at See also:Rome, with remains of the woodwork, &c., &c . Various attempts have been made to raise the first See also:ship, from the See also:middle of the 15th century onwards, by which much harm has been done . The neighbourhood of the lake was naturally in favour with the See also:Romans as a See also:residence . See also:Caesar had a See also:villa constructed there, but destroyed again almost at once, because it did not satisfy him . See F . Barnabei, Notizie degli scavi (1895), 361, 46r; (1896), 188 ; V . Malfatti, Notizie degli scavi (1895), 471; (1896), 393; Rivista marittima (1896), 379; (1897), 293; J . G . Frazer, The Golaen Bough (See also:London, 1900) ; L . Morpurgo in Monumenti dei Lincei, xiii . (1903), 297 sqq . (T . |
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