ÆOLIE INSULÆ, now Isole 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 Hephestiades; and the Romans Vulcanie, from their fiery eruptions. They are also called Liparorum Insula, from their principal island Lipari. Dionysius Periegetes calls them Palus, because circumnavigable.