Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 1650, or it was simply an additionto the ancient Hiera, of which there are some in-stances at a later period. It is apparently to thiseruption that the statement of Posidonius quoted bySeneca, refers. The last statement of Pliny that anew island, named Thia, was thrown up 2 stadiafrom Thia in the consulship of M. Junius Silanusand L. Balbus, on the 8th of July, is so exact tliat itseems hardly possible to reject it; but here again isan error in the date. If we take the numbers astliey stand, this event would have happened in , or, according to th
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . 1650, or it was simply an additionto the ancient Hiera, of which there are some in-stances at a later period. It is apparently to thiseruption that the statement of Posidonius quoted bySeneca, refers. The last statement of Pliny that anew island, named Thia, was thrown up 2 stadiafrom Thia in the consulship of M. Junius Silanusand L. Balbus, on the 8th of July, is so exact tliat itseems hardly possible to reject it; but here again isan error in the date. If we take the numbers astliey stand, this event would have happened in , or, according to the corrected numbers, in a. d. 43,whereas we know that M. Junius Silanus and were consuls in 19. No other writer,however, speaks of an eruption of an island in thisyear, which, if it actually happened, must againhave disappeared. I\Ioreover, it is strange that Plinyshould have passed over the eruption of the realThia, or Mikra Kammeni, which occurred in his life-time, in the consulship of Valerius Asiaticus, and in TIlEHAdlA. ASPnONISI lAP OF TIIKBA AND THK SURltOLNDING A. Shoal formed by the submarine volcanic eruption in l(i50. B. Entrance to the crater. C. Mount Elins. D. i>/«sfl-/nMno and ruined city, probably 1 Submarine ruins at Kamari, probably Oca. F. Kuins at Peiissa. G. C. H, liiiins. nf i:ioiisi«.1. Modern capital Tlina or Iromontriry of ,. EpnncDneria,N. C. Kolumbii. 4 It 4 1160 THERA. the reicn of Claudius, a. u. 46. This event, withthe ditiereuce of only a single year, is mentioned byseveral writers. (Senec. Qa. Nat. ii. 26, vi. 21;Dion Cass. Ix. 29; Aurel. Vict. Cues. 4, Kpit. 4;Oros. vii. 6; Anim. Marc. xvii. 7; Georg. p. 197, ed. Par.) Moreover Pliny hiuaself, inanother p;issage (iv. 12. s. ), says that Thia ap-peared in our age ( in nostro aevo), which canhardly apply to the consuLihip of Silanus and Balbus,since he was not born till 23. In 726, during
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