# Naturalis Historia 3.93-94

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3.93 to 3.94. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/pliny-the-elder/naturalis-historia/3.93

93] Lipara cum civium Romanorum oppido, dicta a Liparo rege, qui successit Aeolo, antea Milognois vel Meligunis vocitata, abest XXV ab Italia, ipsa circuitu paulo minor V. inter hanc et Siciliam altera, antea Therasia appellata, nunc Hiera, quia sacra Volcano est, colle in ea nocturnas evomente flammas. 94] tertia Strongyle, a Lipara VI p. ad exortum solis vergens, in qua regnavit Aeolus; quae a Lipara liquidiore tantum flamma differt, e cuius fumo, quinam flaturi sint venti in triduo, praedicere incolae traduntur; unde ventos Aeolo paruisse existimatum. quarta Didyme, minor quam Lipara. quinta Ericusa, sexta Phoenicusa, pabulo proximarum relictae. novissima eademque minima Euonymos. hactenus de primo Europae sinu.

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