an ancient measure of corn, conjectured to be the same with our quarter, or eight bushels.

ACHERUSIA PALUŠ, a lake between Cumae and the promontory Misenum, now Il Lago della Colletta. (Cluverius.) Some confound it with the Lacus Luercinus, and others with the Lacus Avernus; but Strabo and Pliny distinguish them.—Also a lake of Epirus, through which the Acheron runs.—There is also a cave of the same name, through which Hercules is fabled to have descended to hell to drag forth Cerberus.