BOUM SOLIS STABULA, in Ancient Geography, the territory of Mylæ, so called: A peninsula on the east coast of Sicily, to the north of Syracuse; remarkable for its fertility and rich pastures (Theophrastus): and hence arose the fable of the oxen of the sun feeding there (Scholiast on Apollonius). Pliny and Seneca say, that something like dung is thrown out on the coast of Mylæ and Messana, which gave rise to the fable of the oxen of the sun being stalled there; and at this day the inhabitants affirm the same thing (Cluverius).