TUSCULUM, (anc. geog.), a town of Latium, to the north of Alba; situated on an eminence, and therefore called Supernum, (Horace, Strabo). In sight of Rome, at about the distance of 100 stadia, or 12 miles. Adorned with plantations and princely edifices: The spot remarkable for the goodness of the soil, and its plenty of water. Built by Telegonus, who slew his father Ulysses, (Ovid, Horace); called the grandson of Ulysses in Silus Italicus. A municipium, (Cicero); the birth-place of the elder Cato, (Nepos, Cicero). Now Frescati, in the Campania of Rome.