ÆOLIS 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 Hephæstiades; and the Romans Vulcaniæ, from their fiery eruptions. They are also called Liparorum Insulæ, from their principal island Lipara. Dionysius Periegetes calls them Æolis, because circumnavigable.