Pithecūsa

, a small island on the coast of Etruria, anciently called Ænaria and Enarina , with a town of the same name, on the top of a mountain. The frequent earthquakes to which it was subject obliged the inhabitants to leave it. There was a volcano in the middle of the island, which has given occasion to the ancients to say that the giant Typhon was buried there. Some suppose that it received its name from πιθηκοι , monkeys , into which the inhabitants were changed by Jupiter. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 14 , li. 90 .— Pliny , bk. 3 , ch. 6 .— Pindar , Pythian , poem 1.— Strabo , bk. 1 .