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 220 PLINT's NATURAL HISTORY. [Book III. i tini the Halesini", the Hcnnenses, the Hyblenses^, the Herbitenses^, the Herbessenses^, the Herbulenses, the Hali- cyenses®, the Hadranitani^, the Imacarenses, the Ipanenses, the letenses^, the Mytistratini^, the Magellini, the Miir- gentini^", the Mutycenses^ the Menanini^^, the ISTaxii^^, the Noaei'"*, the Petrini^*, the Paropmi^®, the Phthiuthieuses^'^, the Semellitani, the Scherini, the Selinuntii^^, the Symaethii, the site was probably the modern Terranova, near the river Fiume di Terranova. ^ The people probably of Gralata or Gralaria ; on the site of which the modern village of Galata is supposed to stand. 2 The people probably of Halesa ; its ruins are supposed to be those near the village of Tysa, near the river Pettineo. 3 The people of Hybla. There were three cities of this name in Sicily, the Grreater, the Less, and Hybla Megara. The name was probably derived from the local divinity mentioned by Pausanias as being so called. ^ The people of Herbita ; the site of which was probably at Nicosia, or else at Sperlinga, two miles south of it. ^ There were two places in Sicily known as Herbessus or Erbessus — one near Agrigentum, the other about sixteen miles from Syracuse, on the site, it is supposed, of the present Pantalica. ^ The ijeople of HaUcyse, in the west of Sicily. The modern town of Salemi is supposed to occupy its site. " The people of Adi'anum or Hadranum, a town famous for its temple of the Sicihan deity Adranus. Its site is occupied by the modern town of Aderno. The. ruins are very considerable. ^ The people of letae ; the site of which town is said by FazeUo to be the modern lato. The sites of the places previously mentioned cannot be identified. " The site of their tovra is situate at the modern Mistretta, where some ruins are stiU to be seen. ^0 The site of tlaeii- town was probably the present village of Mandi-i jBianchi on the river Dittaino. ^1 Probably the people of Motuca, mentioned by Ptolemy, now Modica. 1^ Their town probably stood on the site of the present Mineo. ^3 It has been suggested that these are the same as the people of Tau- romenium, said to have been a Naxian colony. ^'^ They are supposed to have dwelt on the site of the present Noara. ^5 The ruins of the town of Petra are supposed to have been those to be seen near Castro Novo, according to Mannert. ^^ Fazello is of opinion that the present CoUsano occupies the site of the ancient Paropus. ^7 The city of Phthinthias was peopled by the inhabitants of G-ela, by command of Phthinthias the despot of Agrigentum. Its ruins are pro- bably those seen in the vicinity of the modern Alicata.
 * 8 The people of Selinus previously mentioned in p. 218.