^^S plint's natfeal histoey. [Book IT. 



cnAP. 89. (87.) — what islands have beeis" eoemed, and 



AT WHAT PERIODS. 



Delos and Ehodes\ islands wliicli have now been long 

 famous, are recorded to lia^ e risen up in this way. More 

 lately there have been some smaller islands formed ; Anapha, 

 which is beyond Melos ; ]S"ea, between Lemnos and the 

 Hellespont ; Halone, between Lebedos and Teos ; Thera- and 

 Therasia, among the Cyclades, in the fourth year of tlie 

 135th Olympiad^ And among the same islands, 130 years 

 afterwards, Hiera, also called Automate^ made its appear- 

 ance ; also Thia, at the distance of two stadia from the 

 former, 110 years afterwards, in our own times, when M. 

 Junius Silanus and L. Balbus were consuls, on the 8th of 

 the ides of July^. 



(88.) Opposite to us, and near to Italy, among the ^Eolian 

 isles, an jsland emerged from the sea ; and likewise one near 

 Crete, 2500 paces in extent, and with warm springs in it ; 

 another made its appearance in the third year of the 163rd 

 Olympiad"^, in the Tuscan gulf, burning with a violent 

 explosion. There is a tradition too that a great number of 

 fishes were floating about the spot, and that those who em- 

 ployed them for food immediately expired. It is said that 

 the Pithecusan isles rose up, in the same way, in the bay 

 of Campania, and that, shortly afterwards, the mountain 

 Epopos, from which flame had suddenly burst forth, was 

 reduced to the level of the neighbouring plain. In the same 

 island, it is said, that a town v.as sunk in the sea ; that in 



1 It may be remarked, that the accounts of modern travellers and 

 geologists tend to confirm the opinion of the volcanic origm of many of 

 the islands of the Archipelago. 



2 Brotier remarks, that, accorchng to the account of Herodotus, this 

 island existed previous to the date here assigned to it ; Lemaire, i. 412, 

 413 : it is probable, however, that the same name was apphed' to two 

 islands, one at least of which was of volcanic origin. 



^ F.c. 517, A.c. 237; and r.c. 647, a.c. 107 ; ''respectively. 

 Hiera, Automata; ab iepd, sacer, et abronciTi], spoiite nascens. 

 Respecting the origin of these islands there would appear to be some 

 contusjon m the dates, which it is difficult to reconcile with each other; 

 It is, I conceive, impossible to decide whether tliis depends upon an error 

 ot our author lumself, or of his transcribers. 



5 July 25th, Tj.c. 771 ; A.C. 19. 



^ r.c. 628; A.c. 125. 



