TUSCULANUM, a villa belonging to Cicero, near Tusculum, where he wrote his Questiones Tusculane, so named from the place; thus become famous as well for the productions of genius as of nature. Formerly the villa of Sylla: now called Grotta Ferrata.—Another Tusculanum, (inscription), a town of the Transpadana, situated on the west side of the Lacus Benatus. Now said to be called Tuscolano, in the territory of Brescia, subject to Venice. Here many monuments of antiquity are dug up.