116.
In the early spring the burning lava, not for the first time, issued from Mount Aetna,
which is the1 highest mountain in Sicily, and devastated a portion of the territory of the
Catanaeans who dwell-on the skirts of Aetna.
[2]
The last eruption is said to have taken place fifty years before; and altogether three
eruptions are recorded since the Hellenes first settled in Sicily.
[3]
Such were the events of the winter; and so ended the sixth year in the Peloponnesian
War of which Thucydides wrote the history.
1 Eruption of Aetna.
Thucydides translated into English; with introduction, marginal analysis, notes, and indices. Volume 1. Thucydides. Benjamin Jowett. translator. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1881.
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