ÆOLIAE INSULÆ, now Isoli Lipari, in Ancient Geography, seven islands, situated between Sicily and Italy ; so called from Æolus, who reigned there about the time of the Trojan war. The Greeks call them Hephaestriades ; and the Romans Vulcaniæ, from their fiery eruptions. They are also called Liparæorum Insulæ, from their principal island Lipara. Dionysius Periegetes calls them Παλαι, because circumnavigable.