Apennīnus

, a ridge of high mountains which run through the middle of Italy, from Liguria to Ariminum and Ancona. They are joined to the Alps. Some have supposed that they ran acro Sicily by Rhegium before Italy was separated from Sicily. Lucan , bk. 2 , li. 306 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 2 , li. 226 .— Silius Italic us , bk. 4 , li. 743 .— Strabo , bk. 2 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 4 .