Cayuga Lake ( or )&# 160 ; is the longest of central New York's glacial Finger Lakes, and is the second largest in surface area ( marginally smaller than Seneca Lake ) and second largest in volume.

It is connected to Lake Ontario by the Erie Canal and Seneca Lake by the Seneca River.

Cayuga Lake, like nearby Seneca Lake, is also the site of a phenomenon known as the Guns of the Seneca, mysterious cannon-like booms heard in the surrounding area.

The history of Caligula's reign is extremely problematic as only two sources contemporary with Caligula have survived — the works of Philo and Seneca.

An inscription on the gate to The Garden is recorded by Seneca in epistle XXI of Epistulae morales ad Lucilium:

Cayuga is the longest ( 38. 1 miles, 61 km ) and Seneca the largest in total area.

The Roman bronze bust, the so-called Pseudo-Seneca, of the late first century BC found at Herculaneum is now thought not to be of Seneca the Younger.

Private libraries appeared during the late republic: Seneca inveighed against libraries fitted out for show by illiterate owners who scarcely read their titles in the course of a lifetime, but displayed the scrolls in bookcases ( armaria ) of citrus wood inlaid with ivory that ran right to the ceiling: " by now, like bathrooms and hot water, a library is got up as standard equipment for a fine house ( domus ).

His prose works on various subjects – Prometheus, dialogues like Symposium ( a banquet at which Virgil, Horace and Messalla were present ), De cultu suo ( on his manner of life ) and a poem In Octaviam (" Against Octavia ") of which the content is unclear-were ridiculed by Augustus, Seneca and Quintilian for their strange style, the use of rare words and awkward transpositions.

Carlyle notes: " There is no change in political theory so startling in its completeness as the change from the theory of Aristotle to the later philosophical view represented by Cicero and Seneca .... We think that this cannot be better exemplified than with regard to the theory of the equality of human nature.

Oberon-V ( originally called Seneca, after Seneca the Younger ) is a descendant of Oberon designed for numerical applications on supercomputers, especially vector or pipelined architectures.

* The earliest such reference occurs in 1589 when Thomas Nashe in his introduction to Robert Greene's Menaphon implies the existence of an early Hamlet: " English Seneca read by candle-light yields many good sentences, as Blood is a begger, and so forth ; and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches.

Seneca, a wealthy Roman patrician, is often criticized by some modern commentators for failing to adequately live by his own precepts.

Seneca Lake is the largest of the glacial Finger Lakes of the U. S. state of New York, and the deepest lake entirely within the state.

At the north end of Seneca Lake is the city of Geneva, New York, home of Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, a division of Cornell University.

Due to Seneca Lake's unique macroclimate it is home to over 50 wineries, many of them farm wineries and is the location of the Seneca Lake AVA.

Seneca Lake is also the site of a strange and currently unexplained phenomenon known as Mistpouffers.

The two longest, Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake, are among the deepest in America.

Sullivan's forces reached their deepest penetration at the Seneca town of Chenussio ( also called Little Beard's town, Beardstown, Chinefee, Genesee, and Geneseo ), near the present Cuylerville, New York, on September 15, inflicting total destruction on the Iroquois villages before returning to Fort Sullivan at the end of the month.

" When the bill erecting it passed the Legislature, however, Martin Van Buren, then a State Senator, and who, being an ardent admirer of the great Napoleon, was somewhat incensed at one of his political opponents ( Elisha Williams, if we mistake not ), who had succeeded in having a town in Seneca county christened " Waterloo ," leaped to his feet and moved to amend by calling the new town " Austerlitz.

' said that since Greek philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca and others were all damned " how much the more Confucius, who was not worthy to kiss their feet "?

Seneca Rocks is a prominent and visually striking formation rising nearly 900 feet above the confluence of Seneca Creek with the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River.

The deep cutting by the ice left some tributaries hanging high above the lakes — both Seneca and Cayuga have tributaries hanging as much as 120 m above the valley floors.

The terrain of Seneca County is nearly level, gently sloping from about 290 meters ASL in the southeast to about 210 m ASL at the edge of the erstwhile Great Black Swamp in the northwest.

The town lies between Cayuga Lake and Seneca Lake at latitude 42 ° 45 ' 8 " N. and longitude 76 ° 50 ' 2 " W. at an altitude of 705 ft ( 214 m ).

The Allegheny Front's southern end is Mount Porte Crayon ( 4770 ft, or 1450 m ), after which the land drops steeply to Seneca Creek, west of Seneca Rocks.

In the Northeast, the tallest accurately measured tree is 44 m. This tree, named the Seneca hemlock, grows in Cook Forest State Park, PA.

Looking south on Seneca Lake in the city of Geneva ( city ), New York | Geneva, New York

* Seneca the Younger ( Lucius Annaeus Seneca, c. 4 BC – 65 AD ), Roman philosopher and playwright, tutor and advisor of Nero

* Seneca the Elder ( 54 BC – 39 AD ), Roman orator and writer, father of the above

* Seneca Wallace ( born 1980 ), American football quarterback / wide receiver currently playing for the Cleveland Browns of the NFL

** Seneca Falls ( town ), New York, a city in Seneca County

*** Seneca Falls ( village ), New York, within the town of Seneca Falls

* Seneca, Wisconsin ( disambiguation ), several places

* Seneca Creek ( Potomac River ), in Maryland

* Seneca Creek ( North Fork South Branch Potomac River ), West Virginia

* Seneca Lake ( New York ), the largest of the Finger Lakes

* Seneca River ( New York ), the outlet of Seneca Lake

* Seneca ( crater ), a lunar crater

* Senakah ( formerly Seneca ), an alternative rock band from Limerick, Ireland

* USCGC Seneca ( WMEC-906 ), a United States Coast Guard cutter

* Seneca ( cigarette ), a brand of additive-free cigarettes

General Ely S. Parker ( far left ), a Seneca, was the first Native American to be appointed as Bureau of Indian Affairs | Commissioner of Indian Affairs, serving until 1871.

* Burrus, praetorian prefect ( 51 – 62 AD ), is charged by Seneca with the education of Nero.

It flows west past Coudersport then turns north into western New York, looping westward across southern Cattaraugus County for approximately 30 miles ( 48 km ), past Portville, Olean, St. Bonaventure University and Salamanca and flowing through Seneca Indian Nation lands close to the northern boundary of Allegany State Park before re-entering northwestern Pennsylvania approximately 20 miles ( 32 km ) southeast of Jamestown, New York.