Pithecusa, An yle in the sea against Campania, so called for the great plentie of Apes there bred, after some.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Pĭthēcūsa, ae, and Pĭthēcūsae, ārum, f., = *piqhkou=sai, an island (prop. the western and larger of two islands; whence the plur.) in the Tyrrhenian Sea, not far from Cumœ, the modern Ischia, Mel. 2, 7, 18; Plin. 3, 6, 12, 82; Liv. 8, 22; Ov. M. 14, 90: Inarime a Graecis dicta Pithecusa, Mart. Cap. 6, 644.