EOLIE INSULÆ, now Isole di Lipari, (anc. geog.), seven islands, situated between Sicily and Italy, so called from Eolus, who reigned there about the time of the Trojan war. The Greeks call them Heptæstades; and the Romans Vulcaniæ, from their fiery eruptions. They are also called Liparæorum Insule, from their principal island Lipara. Dionysius Periegetes calls them Navina, because circumnavigable.