a villa belonging to Cicero, near Tusculum, where he wrote his Quæstiones Tusculanae, so named from the place; thus became famous as well for the productions of genius as of nature. Formerly the villa of Sylla; now called Grotta Ferrara.—Another Tuscanum (inscription), a town of the Transpadans, situated on the west side of the Lacus Benatus. Now said to be called Tofalino, in the territory of Brescia; subject to Venice. Here many monuments of antiquity are dug up.