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BRIGANTINUS LACUS

Volume 4 · 45 words · 1815 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a lake of Rhaetia, or Vindelicia, which Tacitus includes in Rhaetia. Ammian calls the lake Brigantia.

It took its name either from the Brigantii, the people Brigantinus inhabiting on it, or from the adjoining town. Now the lake of Constance or Bodensee.