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TRASIMENE, See also:LAKE (See also:Lat. Trasumeltus Lacus; Ital. Lago Trasimeno) , a lake of See also:Umbria, See also:Italy, 12 M. W. from See also:Perugia, 843 ft. above See also: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 See also:malaria. An artificial outlet was completed in 1898 from the See also:south-See also:east corner of the lake to the Caina, a small tributary of the See also:Tiber. The See also:work, which is about 4 M. See also:long, cost only about £26,000. It is intended to leave about 2500 acres of See also:land dry, and to convert another 2800 acres of marshy See also:soil into cultivable land. The lake contains three small islands: Isola See also:Maggiore, with a monastery, Isola Minore and Isola Polvese. See also:Standing on a promontory jutting out into the lake is the See also:town of See also:Castiglione del Lago, which possesses a See also:castle of the See also:dukes of Cornia, built by Galeazzo See also:Alessi, the architect of many of the Genoese palaces. See also:Napoleon I. formed a project for draining the lake, which may ultimately be adopted. Here See also:Hannibal disastrously defeated the See also:consul C.

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Flaminius. Hannibal See also:left his See also:winter quarters in Cisalpine See also:Gaul in the See also:spring of 217 B.C. and crossed the See also:Apennines, probably by the pass now known as the Passo dei Mandrioli (from Forli: to Bibbiena in the upper valley of the See also:Arno). His See also:march was much hindered by marshes (probably those in the Arno valley between Bibbiena and See also:Arezzo). The See also:Roman See also:army under Flaminius was stationed at Arezzo (anc. Arretiuni), and Hannibal marched past it. Flaminius followed, and Hannibal occupied the heights on the See also:north of the lake between Terontola and Tuoro, commanding the road from See also:Cortona to Perugia, and also those on the east of Tuoro, so that when the Roman army (which had encamped the See also:night before outside the entrance to the small valley of the See also:brook now called Sanguineto, See also:west of Tuoro), unable in the mists of See also:early See also:morning to see the enemy's forces, had entered the valley, it was surrounded and there was no See also:escape except by forcing a passage. The vanguard succeeded in making their See also:egress on the east by Passignano, but the defeat of the See also:rest of the army was See also:complete, the See also:Romans losing no fewer than 15,000 men. See T. See also:Ashby in See also:Journal of See also:Philology (1908), and refs. (T.

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