59/122 The place was called 'Castrum Minervae,' and lay a few miles to the north of the southern extremity of Calabria. The Cyclops were placed by Virgil on the slopes of Aetna. _Enceladus_ was one of the giants who had fought against the gods, but Jupiter struck him down with a thunderbolt and buried him under Mount Aetna. _Pelorus_ was the most northerly headland of the Straits of Messina. _Plemmyrium_ ('the place of the tides') is the headland near the harbour of Syracuse, which was built on the island of Ortygia. |