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PANORMOS (Ancient city) SICILY
Nebrodes Mons (ta Neurode ore, Strab.: Monti di Madonia), one of the
most considerable ranges of mountains in Sicily. The name was evidently applied
to a part of the range which commences near Cape Pelorus, and extends along the
northern side of the island, the whole way to the neighbourhood of Panormus. Though
broken into various mountain groups, there is no real interruption in the chain
throughout this extent, and the names applied to different parts of it seem to
have been employed (as usual in such cases) with much vagueness. The part of the
chain nearest to Cape Pelorus, was called Mons Neptunius, and therefore the Mons
Nebrodes must have been further to the west. Strabo speaks of it as rising opposite
to Aetna, so that he would seem to apply the name to the mountains between that
peak and the northern coast, which are still covered with the extensive forests
of Caronia. Silius Italicus, on the other hand, tells us that it was in the Mons
Nebrodes the two rivers of the name of Himera had their sources, which can refer
only to the more westerly group of the Monti di Madonia, the most lofty range
in Sicily after Aetna, and this indentification is generally adopted. But, as
already observed, there is no real distinction between the two. Silius Italicus
speaks of the Mons Nebrodes as covered with forests, and Solinus derives its name
from the number of fawns that wandered through them; an etymology obviously fictitious.
(Strab. vi. p. 274; Solin. 5. §§ 11, 12; Sil. Ital. xiv. 236; Cluver. Sicil. p.
364; Fazell. de Reb. Sic. x. 2. p. 414.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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