place
Lucrine Lake
Lucrine
also: Lacus Lucrinus
A lagoon on the bay of Campania near Baiae, celebrated for its oyster-beds --- a byword for gourmet luxury.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §9.78.23 Lucrine oysters
Oysters from the Lucrine Lake near Baiae, the most prized at Rome --- shorthand here for the gourmet excess a sick man is supposedly to be pitied for missing.