Ampsanctus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Amp-sanctus (better than Am-), i, m.,

a lake in Italy , highly dangerous from its pestiferous exhalations (hence, in the poets, the entrance to the infernal regions), now Le Mofete or Lago d’Ansante , Verg. A. 7, 565; Cic. Div. 1, 36; Plin. 2, 93, 95, § 208.

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