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Strabo, Geography (ed. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.), BOOK VI., CHAPTER II. (search)
amer and Groskurd. are witnessed in the Lipari Islands, and
especially in Lipari itself.—These islands are seven in number,
the chief of which is Lipari, a colony of the Cnidians.Founded about B. C. 580. It is
nearest to Sicily after Thermessa.Thermessa, at present called Vulcano, is doubtless the same mentioned in Pliny's Nat. Hist. lib. iii. § 14, tom. i. p. 164, as Therasia, by
the error of the copyist. Paulus Orosius, lib. iv. cap. 20, says that it rose
from the bed of the sea, B. C. 571. It is however certain that it was in
existence B. C. 427, confer. l'hucyd. lib. iii. § 88, and was for a considerable time called Hiera. It was originally named
Meligunis. It was possessed of a fleet, and for a considerable
time repelled the incursions of the Tyrrheni.See Pausan. Phoc. or lib. x. cap. 16, p. 835. The islands
now called Liparæan were subject to it, some call them
the islands of Æolus. The citizens were so successful
as to make frequent offerings of the spoils taken in w<