Pisæ

, a town of Etruria, built by a colony from Pisa in the Peloponnesus. The inhabitants were called Pisani . Dionysius of Halicarna us affirms that it existed before the Trojan war, but others support that it was built by a colony of Pisæans, who were shipwrecked on the coast of Etruria at their return from the Trojan war. Pisæ was once a very powerful and flourishing city, which conquered the Baleares, together with Sardinia and Corsica. The sea on the neighbouring coast was called the bay of Pisæ. Virgil , Æneid , bk. 10 , li. 179 .— Strabo , bk. 5 .— Lucan , bk. 2 , li. 401 .— Livy , bk. 39 , ch. 2 ; bk. 45 , ch. 13 .— Pliny , bk. 2 , ch. 103 .