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MILAZZO (Town) SICILY
Longanus (Longanos), a river in the N. of Sicily, not far from Mylae
(Milazzo), celebrated for the victory of Hieron, king of Syracuse, over the Mamertines
in B.C. 270 (Pol. i. 9 ; Diod. xxii. 13; Exc. H. p. 499, where the name is written
Loitanos, but the same river is undoubtedly meant). Polybius describes it as in
the plain of Mylae (en toi Mulaioi pedioi), but it is impossible to say, with
certainty, which of the small rivers that flow into the sea near that town is
the one meant. The Fiume di Santa Lucia, about three miles southwest of Milazzo,
has perhaps the best claim; though Cluverius fixes on the Flume di Castro Reale,
a little more distant from that city. (Cluv. Sicil. p. 303.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
TAVROMENION (Ancient city) SICILY
Acesines (Akesines), a river of Sicily, which flows, into the sea
to the south of Tauromenium. Its name occurs only in Thucydides (iv. 25) on occasion
of the attack made on Naxos by the Messenians in B.C. 425 : but it is evidently
the same river which is called by Pliny (iii. 8) Asines, and by Vibius Sequester
(p. 4) Asinius. Both these writers place it in the immediate neighbourhood of
Tauromenium, and it can be no other than the river now called by the Arabic name
of Cantara, a considerable stream, which, after following throughout its course
the northern boundary of Aetna, discharges itself into the sea immediately to
the S. of Capo Schizo, the site of the ancient Naxos. The Onobalas of Appian (B.C.
v. 109) is probably only another name for the same river. Cluverius appears to
be mistaken in regarding the Flume Freddo as the Acesines : it is a very small
stream, while the Cantara is one of the largest rivers in Sicily, and could hardly
have been omitted by Pliny. (Cluver. Sicil. p. 93; Mannert, vol. ix. pt. ii. p.
284.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited October 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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