LABEA´TIS LACUS
LABEA´TIS LACUS a large lake of Roman Illyricum, situated to the N. of Scodra, the chief city of the
LABEATES (
Liv. 43.21,
44.31,
45.26) or LABEATAE. (
Plin. Nat. 3.26.)
It is now called the lake of
Scútari, famous for the quantity of fish, especially of the “Cyprinus” family.
The rivers, which drain the rocky district of
Monte-Negro, discharge themselves into this lake, which communicates with the sea by the river
BARBANA (Wilkinson,
Dalmatia, vol. i. pp. 411, 415, 476.)
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