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 1028 HALICYRNA. declfired thenueWes in &Tour of that monarch (Id. xxii. 10, Exc H. p. 498.) Again, in the First Panic War they were among the first to imitate the conduct of the Segetans, and, throwing off the Car- thaginian yoke, declared themselves on the side of Borne. (Id. xxiiL 5, p. 502.) For this signal service Halicjae was rewarded by the grant o^ peculiar pri- vileges, which we find its citizens still enjoying in the time of Cicero, who reckons it among the five cities of Sicily which were " sine foedere immunes ac liberae." (Fierr. iii. 7, 40.) But even this pri- vileged condition did not praserve them from the exactions of Verres. (lb. ii. 28, iiL40, v. 7.) From this time we hear little of Halicyae, which appears to have lost its peculiar privileges, and had sunk in the time of Pliny into an ordinary stipen- diary town. (Plin. iii. 8. s. 14.) That author is the last who mentions its name. The passage already cited from Stephanus is the only duect authority for the position of Halicyae, but agrees well with what we may gather from Diodorus; and there seems no reason to doubt that the site has been cor- rectly identified by Fazello and Cluverius with that of the modem town of SalemL It stands on a hiU in a commanding position, and must have been a place of considerable strength. Thero are no ancient remains; but the modem, as well as the ancient name, appears to have reference to the salt springs in the neighbourhood. It is distant about 20 miles £. from Martala (the andent Lilybaeum) and 16 N. from the site of Selinus. It is not improbable that we should read 'AXi- Kvtuwv in Diodorus (xxxvi. 3. p. 531), where he speaks of a Servile outbreak taking place, — Korh T V *AyKv?dw¥ x^P^t — ^ name otherwise unknown. In a previous passage of the same autlior already cited (xiv. 48) the MS& have *AyKvpaioryf but there seems no doubt that here the true reading, as sug- gested by Wesseling, is *Aucvaiuy. Cluverius, however, contends for the correctness of the old reading, and admits the existence of a dty named Ancyra, which he identifies with the "AyKpiva of Ptolemy (iii. 4. § 15). [E. H. B.] HALICYRNA ('AA(<rvpra: Eth/AXiKupi^ouos), a village of Aetolia, described by Strabo as situated 30 stadia below Calydon towards the sea Pliny places it near Pleuron. Leake discovei'ed bome rains, mid- vray between Kurt-aga (the site of Calydon) and the eastern teraiination of the lagoon of Metolmghif which he supposes to be the remains of Halicyriia. (Strab. X. p. 459, sub fin., where the common text has the false reading hiKvpva Scyb p. 14 ; Plin. iv. 3 ; Steph. B. «. v., where it is erroneously called a village in Acamanla; Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. iii p. 533.) HALIEIS ('AXicis), the name of a sea-faring people on the coast of Hennionis, who derived their name from their fisheries. (Strab. viii. p. 373.) They gave their name to a town on the coast of Hermiunts, where the Tirynthians and Hermionians took refuge when they were expelled from their own cities by the Argives. (Ephor. ap. Byz. s. v, about 01. 80 by Aneristus, the son of Sperthias, and made subject to Sparta (hs cfAc ^AXtdai [not iiiias'] robs iK T(>uv0o5, Herod, vii. 137). The district was afterwards ravaged on more than one occasion by the Athenians. (Thuc i. 105, ii. 56, iv. 45 ; Diod. xi. 78.) After the Peloponnesian War the Halicis are mentioned by Xenophon a.s an auto- people. (Xen. JId'. iv. 2. § 6, vi. 2. § 3.) uomous HALONNESDS. The district is called ^ 'AXids by ThneTdidis (ii. 56, iv. 45), who also calls the people or their town 'AA<«r;r ; for, in L 105, the true raading is ^r t. 9. *AAtcif.) In an inscripdcai we find ir 'AXlf^- aw. (Bockh, Tnscr. no. 165.) Scylax (p. 20) speaks of Haua CAA/a) as a port at the mouth of the Argolic gulf. Callimachns calls the town Altcus ^AA vicof, Steph. B. s. tf), and by Pausanias it is named Hauce ('AAiirf), and its inhabitants Halid. (Pans. iL 36. § 1.) The town was no longer inhabited in the time of Pauaanias, and its position is not fixed by that writer. He only says that, seven stadia from Hermione, the nnd from Halice separated from that to Mases, and that the former led between the mountains Prsn and Coc- cygius, of which the ancient name was Tboraax. In the poiinsula of Kranidki, the French Commis- sion observed the remains of two Hellemc sites, one <ni the southern shore, about three miles from Hermi<me and the same distance from C. MtitHi, the other fxa. the south-western side, at the head of a deep bay called KKeli or BiuUi : the former tbey suppose to represent Halice, and the latter Maaes, and, accordingly, these two places are so pbnd in Sjepert^s map. But Leake, who is followed by Curtius, observes that the ruins which the French Commission have named Halice are probably sooie dependency of Hermione of which the name has not been recorded, since the postUoo is too near to Her* mione to have been that of Halice, and the haximir is too inconvenient for a people who were of con- siderable maritime importance. It is far more Hkdjy that such a people possessed the port of Ckeii, the situation oi which at the mouth of the Aigolic gulf agrees exactly with the desari|AiaD of Seyhx. Mases probably stood at the hnd of the bay of KiiddhuL [Mases.] (Leake, Moreoy vol. iL p. 462, Pehpormenaca, p. 286, seq. ; Boblaye, Jteeherdiet^ ^. p. 61 ; Curtius, Peloponnetos, voL iL pp. 461, 579.) HALIMUS. [Attica, p. 327, h.] HALISARNA {*Aicapya(xr*Aaffdf»v), a town on the south coast of the island of Cos, near Caps Laceterium. (Strab. xiv. p. 657 ; compi Rosa, Beism auf den Griech. /n«eln, voL iii. p^ 136, and ir. p. 22.) [L. &] HALIUSSA ('AXu»Mr<ra), one of the three small islands lying off the promontory Bucephala in Troa- zcnia in Argolis. (Pans. ii. 34. § 8 ; Leake, iWo- ponnesiaca^ p. 283.) HALMYRIS (*AA/ivpiO, a salt-Iake, soatb of tha southernmost mouth of the Danube. It was properiy a p&rt of the Euxine, with which it communicated by a narrow diannel. It extended fn»n the town of Istrus in the south, nearly as far as Aegyssns on tha Danube. On its western coast existed a town of tha name of Halmyris. (Plin. iv. 24 : Prooop. de Aed, iv. 7; Philostorg. x. 10; Niceph. HitL £ccleM. xiL 29.) ri*. S-l HALO'NE ('Ac6n}: Aloni), an island in tha Propontis, south of Proconnesus. It was also called Neuris and Prochone (Steph. B. a. v.; Plin. t. 44X and is probably the same as the island Ekphonesns mentioned by Scylax (p. 35), who notices its ex* cdlent harbour, which still exists. [L. S.] HALONNE'SUS ('AXAmnicos : Eth. 'AXm^^ <nof)f an island in lae Aegaean sea, lying off the southem extremity of the Magnesian coast in Thes- saly. The possession of this isbnd gave rise to a dispute between Philip and the AtheDian& in B. c343^
 * Ktus; Strab. viii. p. 373.) This town was taken
 * Atas, i. e. *Ai4as. (See Mdneke, and St^ih. B.