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Hephaestion
A volcanic region in Lycia (Asia Minor) where natural fire played harmlessly over fertile, pierced ground --- Seneca's parallel to Aetna's fires.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §9.79.3 Hephaestion
A region of Lycia in Asia Minor where natural gas-fires burned harmlessly over fertile ground; Seneca offers it as a parallel case for the geology of Aetna's fires.