118 pliky's T^ATFBAL HISTOET. [Book IT. 
CHAP. 89. (87.) WHAT TSLAIS^DS HATE BEEIf POBMED, Ara 
AT WHAT PEEIODS. 
Delos and Kliodes^ islands wliicli have now been long 
famous, are recorded to have risen up in this way. More 
lately there have been some smaller islands formed ; Anapha, 
which is beyond Melos ; N^ea, between Lemnos and the 
Hellespont ; Halone, between Lebedos and Teos ; Thera^ and 
Therasia, among the Cyclades, in the fourth year of the 
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 island 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 was sunk in the sea ; that in 
^ It may be rema-rked, that the accounts of modern travellers and 
geologists tend to confirm the opinion of tlie volcanic origin of many of 
the islands of the Archipelago. 
2 Brotier remarks, that, according 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. 
u.c. 517, A.c. 237 ; and v.c. 647, a.c. 107 ; respectively. 
^ Hiera, Automata; ab iepd, sacer, et avTOiia.Tr], sponte nascens. 
Respecting the origin of these islands there would appear to be some 
confusion in the dates, which it is difficult to reconcile with each other ; 
it is, I conceive, impossible to decide whether this depends upon an error 
of our author himself, or of his transcribers. 
5 July 25th, u.c. 771 ; A.C. 19. 
« U.C. 628 J A.c. 125. 
