...paraean Islands. Now although by night a brilliant light shines from the summit, by day it is covered with smoke and haze. Over against Aetna rise the Nebrodes Mountains, which, though lower than Aetna , exceed it considerably in breadth. The whole island is hollow down beneath the ground, and full of streams and of fire, as is the case with the Tyrrhenian Sea, as far as the Cumaean country, as I h...