[1503] The modern Giglio.
[1504] Now Gianuto, opposite Monte Argentaro on the main-land.
[1505] These are probably the small islands now called Formiete or Formicole di Grossetto, Troja, Palmajola, and Cervoli.
[1506] The modern Elba.
[1507] Now Pianosa.
[1508] Astura still retains its ancient name, Palmaria is the present Palmarola, Sinonia is now Senone, and Pontiæ is the modern Isola di Ponza.
[1509] Now Ventotiene.
[1510] Deriving its name from the Greek word προχυτὸς, meaning “poured forth.”
[1511] The present island of Ischia, off the coasts of Campania. The name of Pithecusæ appears to have been given by the Greeks to the two islands of Ænaria and Prochyta collectively.
[1512] Ovid, like many other writers, mentions Inarime as though a different island from Pithecusæ. See Met. B. xiv. l. 89. As is here mentioned by Pliny, many persons derived the name “Pithecusæ” from πίθηκος “an ape,” and, according to Strabo, “Aremus” was the Etrurian name for an ape. Ovid, in the Metamorphoses, loc. cit., confirms this tradition by relating the change of the natives into apes. The solution of its name given by Pliny appears however extremely probable, that it gained its name from its manufacture of πιθηκὰ, or earthen vessels. Virgil is supposed to have coined the name of “Inarime.”