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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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