[2006] The Sirenusæ were three small rocks detached from the land, and celebrated as the islands of the Sirens; they are now called Galli. See Holsten. Adnot. p. 248; Romanelli, tom. iii. p. 619. Virgil, Æn. v. 864, describes them as,
Jamque adeo scopulos advecta subibat;
Difficiles quondam, multorumque ossibus albos.
It had been decreed that the Sirens should live only till some one hearing their song should pass on unmoved, and Orpheus, who accompanied the Argonauts, having surpassed the Sirens, and led on the ship, they cast themselves into the sea, and were metamorphosed into these rocks.
[2007] The bay of Naples.
[2008] Punta di Miseno.
[2009] Procida.
[2010] Ischia.
[2011] It appears that Hiero the First is here alluded to; he ascended the throne 478 years before the Christian era.
[2012] The volcanos of Sicily, Lipari, Pithecussæ, or Ischia, and Mount Vesuvius. See Humboldt (Cosmos i. 238, note).