Note 26 — LETTER IV.
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Pliny, in his account of these islands, in the ix chapter of the third book of his Natural History, seems to confirm this opinion.
"Lipara cum civium Romanorum oppido, dicta à Liparo rege, qui successit Æolo, antea Melogonis vel Meliganis vocitata, abest xii millia pass. ab Italia, ipsa circuitu paulo minori. Inter hanc et Siciliam altera, antea Therasia appellata, nunc Hiera; qui sacra Vulcano est, colle in ea nocturnas evomente flammas. Tertia Strongyle, a Lipara millia passuum ad exortum solis vergens, in qua regnavit Æolus, quæ à Lipara liquidiore flamma tantum differt: e cujus fumo equinam flaturi sint venti, in triduum prædicere incolæ traduntur; unde ventos Æolo paruisse existimatum. Quarta Didyme, minor quam Lipara. Quinta Ericusa; sexta Phœnicusa; pabulo proximarum relicta. Novissima, eademque Minima, Evonymos."