the ancient Ophiusa or Pityusa Minor, one of the Balearic Islands belonging to Spain, and lying 3 miles S. of the island of Iviça. It is about 13 miles in length, by from 2 to 10 in breadth, and takes its name from the abundant crops of wheat raised in the western part, FORMICÆ (now Mola di Gaeta), a city of Latium, near the Via Appia, on the innermost recess of the Sinus Caetanus, or Gulf of Gaeta. It was founded very anciently by the Tyrrhenians. Some of the later poets supposed the city of Lamus, which Homer mentions, to be the same as Formiae. At an early period Formiae received the Roman franchise and became a municipium. Villas were built at this spot by many of the noble Romans who were attracted by the rich beauty of the surrounding country. The villa of Cicero may still be seen near Castiglione at the villa Marsana, the furthest of the three from Mola. The vine of the Formian hills produced excellent wine in the time of Horace.