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Ætna

Ætna

See also: Aetna

English

Proper noun

Ætna

  1. Archaic spelling of Etna.
    • 1877, The mythology of Greece and Rome, page 25:
      Zeus, by means of his never‐ceasing thunder‐bolts, at length over‐came Typhoeus, and cast him into Tartarus, or, according to later writers (Pindar and Virgil), buried him beneath Mount Ætna in Sicily, whence at times he still breathes out fire and flames towards heaven.