Pontine Marshes

American  

plural noun

1. an area in W Italy, SE of Rome: formerly marshy, now drained.

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Pontine Marshes British  

/ ˈpɒntaɪn /

plural noun

1. Italian name: Agro Pontino.  an area of W Italy, southeast of Rome: formerly malarial swamps, drained in 1932–34 after numerous attempts since 160 _bc had failed

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Example Sentences

For hundreds of years up to the fifth century ad, the malarial Pontine Marshes around Rome staved off attacks by Carthaginians, Germanic tribes and Huns, yet weakened Roman citizens.

From Nature • Aug. 11, 2019

Which argument leads us to the idea that reflooding the Pontine Marshes or the Fens would lead to an increase in the wealth of the nation.

From Forbes • Jun. 5, 2014

Bustling up to Aprilia, one of the towns built on land reclaimed from the Pontine Marshes, in his automobile, Il Duce stripped to the waist, clambered atop a threshing machine.

From Time Magazine Archive

A slim black Citro�n sped along the road that winds north from Naples, across the Pontine Marshes and on to Rome.

From Time Magazine Archive

You'd not have suffered her to halt in the Pontine Marshes; but you can see no danger in linking her whole future life to influences five thousand times more depressing.

From A Rent In A Cloud by Lever, Charles James