Lūcrīnus

, a small lake of Camp an i a, opposite Puteoli. Some believe that it was made by Hercules when he pa ed through Italy with the bulls of Geryon. It abounded with excellent oysters, and was united by August us to the Avernus, and a communication formed with the sea, near a harbour called Julius Portus . The Lucrine lake disappeared on the 30th of September, 1538, in a violent earthquake, which raised on the spot a mountain four miles in circumference, and about 1000 feet high, with a crater in the middle. Cicero , bk. 4 , Letters to Atticus , ltr. 10 .— Strabo , bks. 5 & 6.— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 4 .— Pro pert i us , bk. 1 , poem 11, li. 10 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 2 , li. 161 .— Horace , bk. 2 , ode 15.