Aetna, Is a marueylous hill in Sicilie, at the foote whereof is a little towne of the same name, and woods and trees of diners kindes planted. On the toppe thereof is a barrayne grounds, mixt with ashes, in the winter time couered withsnowe. This conteyneth in circutie twentie furlonges, and is enuironed with a banke of ashes, of the heigth of a wall. In the middle is also a rounde hyll of the same colour and matter, wherin be two great holes, fashioned like vnto two cuppes, which he called Crateres. Out of those doe rise sometime sundrie great flames of sire: sometime horrible smoke: sometime are blowen out burning stones in insinite numbers. Moreouer, before that the saide fire appeareth, there is heard within the grounde, terrible noyse and roaring. And also (which is more marueile) when % smoke and fire is most abundant, and feruent, yet rounde about the top of the sayde hyll, are alwayes seene snswe and hoare frostes. Plynie writeth, that the fire appeareth alwaye at night. This hyll is nowe called Gibello monte. * Aetna athon, A prouerbe, spoken of a thing very painesull & grieuous.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Aetna, ae (in Gr. form Aetnē, ēs, in good MSS. of Ov.), f., = *ai)/tnh [ai)/qw, to burn]. I.The celebrated volcano of Sicily, now Mongibello or Ætna, in the interior of which, acc. to fable, was the forge of Vulcan, where the Cyclopes forged thunderbolts for Jupiter, and under which the latter buried the monster Typhōeus.—Form Aetna, Cic. Div. 2, 19; Ov. F. 4, 596; id. Tr. 5, 275.—Form Aetne, Ov. F. 4, 491 Riese.— II.A nymph in Sicily, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. A. 9, 584.—III.A town at the foot of Mt. Ætna, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 23; 2, 3, 44.