Mount Etna
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Aetna · Aetnaean · yonder mount
in the texts
De Rerum Natura
The Sicilian volcano whose eruptions Lucretius explains through natural causes (wind, heated air, fire) rather than divine agency.
Aetnaean.
Even to the bottom of the mountain's throat.
The sea there at the roots of that same mount
History of the Peloponnesian War
The volcano in Sicily whose eruption, described at the close of the window, is placed in a historical sequence of prior eruptions.
Just about the beginning of this spring, the fire flood issued from Aetna, as it had done on former occasions, and destroyed some of the territory of the Catanaeans, who live on Mount Etna, the largest mountain in Sicily.
It is said that this eruption took place fifty years after the preceding one;