LICOLA, or LAGO DI LICOLA, a lake in the kingdom of Naples, anciently famous for excellent fish; but, in the year 1588, an explosion of a volcano changed one part of it into a mountain of ashes, and the other into a morass. It was anciently known by the name of the Lucrine Lake, the oysters of which are highly commended by Horace.
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