# Naturalis Historia 3.88

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 3. Latin.

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88] coloniae ibi V, urbes aut civitates LXIII. a Peloro mare Ionium ora spectante oppidum Messana civium R., qui Mamertini vocantur, promunturium Drepanum, colonia Tauromenium, quae antea Naxos, flumen Asines, mons Aetna, nocturnis mirus incendiis. crater eius patet ambitu stadia viginti; favilla Tauromenium et Catinam usque pervenit fervens, fragor vero ad Maroneum et Gemellos colles.

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