Trasimenus
LAKE, a shallow Italian lake lying between the towns of Cortona and Perugia. Surrounded on all sides by hills, it is about 10 miles in length by 8 in breadth; area, 50 square miles; elevation above the sea about 850 feet; depth about 25 feet. There is no outlet, and the margins are flat and overgrown with reeds, but of late largely planted with eucalyptus trees. The lake is memorable for the great victory obtained there by Hannibal in 217 B. C. over the Romans, when 15,000 Romans, including the commander, the Consul Caius Flaminius Nepos, were slain, and 10,000 captured, Hannibal losing only 1,500 men.
Hannibal then continued his career of plunder.