Aetna
From LSJ
ἀλλὰ σὺ μὲν νῦν στῆθι καὶ ἄμπνυε → but you, stop now and catch your breath | but do thou now stand, and get thy breath
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Aetna: ae (in Gr. form Aetnē, ēs, in good MSS. of Ov.), f., = Αἴτνη [[[αἴθω]], to burn.
I The celebrated volcano of Sicily, now Mongibello or Ætna, in the interior of which, acc. to fable, was the forge of Vulcan, where the Cyclopes forged thunderbolts for Jupiter, and under which the latter buried the monster Typhōeus.—Form Aetna, Cic. Div. 2, 19; Ov. F. 4, 596; id. Tr. 5, 275.—Form Aetne, Ov. F. 4, 491 Riese.—
II A nymph in Sicily, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 584.—
III A town at the foot of Mt. Ætna, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23; 2, 3, 44.
