Lake Como

Lake Como (Italian: Lago di Como), also known as Lario, is a lake of glacial origin in Lombardy, Italy.

Quotes

• Te, Lari maxime.
  • Thee, Larius, greatest.
  • Virgil, Georgics, II, 159 (tr. J. B. Greenough)

• Remember how we came at last
  To Como; shower and storm and blast
    Had blown the lake beyond his limit,
  And all was flooded; and how we past
  From Como, when the light was gray,
  And in my head, for half the day,
    The rich Virgilian rustic measure
  Of Lari Maxume, all the way,
  Like ballad-burthen music, kept,
  As on The Lariano crept
    To that fair port below the castle
  Of Queen Theodolind, where we slept;
  Or hardly slept, but watch’d awake
  A cypress in the moonlight shake,
    The moonlight touching o’er a terrace
  One tall Agavè above the lake.
  • Alfred Tennyson, The Daisy (wr. 1853; pub. 1855)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Lake Como on Wikipedia