ÆOLIAE INSULÆ, now Isole di Lipari, in Ancient Geography, seven islands situate between Sicily and Italy; so called from Æolus, the god of the winds, who was supposed to have ruled there. The Greeks call them Hephaestides; and the Romans Vulcania, from their fiery eruptions. They are also called Lipareorum Insulae, from their principal island Lipari. Dionysius Periegetes calls them Illyria, because circumnavigable.