place
Etna
also: Aetna, Aetnam
The great Sicilian volcano, a figure for inextinguishable burning.
Reading notes
- The Odes §3.4 Aetna
Heaped on a buried Giant, whose fire still burns beneath.
- The Epodes §17 Etna
The Sicilian volcano; its green-blazing flame is the other type of unquenchable burning the poet feels.