ACROCERAUNIA, or MONTES CERAUNII, (anc. geogr.) mountains running out into the sea, (so called from their being often thunder-struck); separating the Ionian sea from the Adriatic; where Illyria ends and Epirus begins, (Horace): now called Monti della Chimera.
ACROCERAUNIA
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