Sirmio
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- Sirmio on Lake Garda should not be confused with Sirmium in Pannonia
Sirmio is a promontory at the southern end of Lake Garda, projecting 21 miles into the lake. It is celebrated from its connection with Catullus, for the large ruins of a Roman villa on the promontory have been supposed to be his country house. Catullus, upon his return home from a long voyage, joyously describes Sirmio as "Paene insularum, Sirmio, insularumque ocelle" (jewel of islands and of peninsulas) in his Carmen XXXI, Ad Sirmium insulam. A post-station bearing the name Sirmio stood on the high-road between Brixia and Verona, near the southern shore of the lake. On the shore below is the village of Sirmione, with sulfur baths.
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- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
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