Amasenus
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
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Amasene Proper-name noun: masculine vocative singular of Amasenus
- a small river in Latium, eastward from the Pontine Marshes, now Amaseno, Verg. A. 7, 685; cf. Mann. Ital. 1, 626; Müll. Röms Camp. 2, 235.
AMASE´NUS a small river of Latium, still called the Amaseno, which rises in the Volscian mountains above Privernum, and descends from thence to the Pontine marshes, through which it finds its way to the sea, between Tarracina and the Circeian promontory. Before its course was artificially regulated it was, together with its confluent the Ufens, one of the chief agents in the formation of those marshes. Its name is not found in Pliny or Strabo, but is repeatedly mentioned by Virgil (Aen. 7.684, 11.547). Servius, in his note on the former passage, erroneously places it near Anagnia, evidently misled by the expressions of Virgil. Vibius Sequester (p. 3) correctly says Amasenus Privernatium.
[E.H.B]A small river in Latium, which, after uniting with the Ufens, falls into the sea between Circeii and Terracina, though the greater part of its waters are lost in the Pontine Marshes.