ÆOLIE INSULÆ, now Isole di Lipari, (anc. geogr.) seven islands, situated between Sicily and Italy, (Strabo, Diodorus Siculus, Mela); so called from Æolus, who reigned there about the time of the Trojan war. The Greeks call them Hephaesiades; and the Romans, Vulcaniæ, from their fiery eruptions. They are also called Liparorum Insule, from the principal island Lipara. Dionysius Periegetes calls them Æolias, because circumnavigable.