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 B. vi. c. ii. 5, 6. SICILY. 411 nominated Amphilocliian. He says further, that this river falls into the Achelous, and that the ^as flows to Apollonia 1 towards the west. On each side of the island there is an extensive harbour ; the extent of the larger one is 80 2 stadia. [Augustus] Cresar has not only restored this city, but Catana, and likewise Centoripa, 3 which had contributed much towards the overthrow of [Sextus] Pompey. Centoripa is situated above Catana and confines with the mountains of ^Etna and the river Giaretta, 4 which flows into Catanaea. 5. One of the remaining sides, that stretching from Pa- chynus to Lilyboeum, is entirely deserted ; still, -it preserves a few traces of the ancient inhabitants, one of whose cities was Camarina. 5 Acragas, 6 which was a colony of the Geloi, 7 to- gether with its port and Lilybseum, 8 still exist. In fact, these regions, lying opposite to Carthage, have been wasted by the great and protracted wars which have been waged. The re- maining and greatest side, although it is by no means densely peopled, is w^ell occupied, for Alaesa, 9 Tyndaris, 10 the empo- rium 11 of the JEgestani and Cephalredium, 12 are respectable tOAvns. Panormus has received a Roman colony : they say that JEgesta 13 was founded by the Greeks who passed over, as we have related when speaking of Italy, with Philoctetes to the Crotoniatis, and were by him sent to Sicily with jEges- tus 14 the Trojan. 6. In the interior of the island a few inhabitants possess Enna, 15 in which there is a temple of Ceres ; 16 it is situated on Pollina. The Porto Maggiore of Syracuse is scarcely half so large. Centorbe, to the south-west of ^tna. Silius, lib. xiv., mentions it ' Centuripe, largoque virens Entella Lyaeo." The ancient Symaethus. Now Camarana : it was founded 600 years B. c. 6 Girgenti. " Apparet Camarina procul, campique Geloi." Virg. JEn. iii. 701. Marsalla. 9 I Bagni. 10 S. Maria di Tindaro. 11 Castel-a-Mare. 12 Cefam. 13 Now ruins at Barbara. 14 Also called Acestes. I5 Castro-Ioanni. 16 Ovid, in the fourth book of his Fasti, thus alludes to the temple, " Grata domus Cereri, multas ea possidet urbes, In quibus est culto fertilis Enna solo." From this place we have the adjective Enneus, and the Ennea virgo of Sil., lib. xiv., for Proserpine, " Turn rapta praeceps Ennea virgine flexit."