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LILYBAEUM (Ancient city) SICILY
Aegithallus (Aighiphallos, Diod.; Aighithalos, Zonar.; Aighitharos,
Ptol.) a promontory on the W. coast of Sicily, near Lilybaeum, which was occupied
and fortified by the Roman consul L. Junius during the First Punic War (B.C. 249),
with a view to support the operations against Lilybaeum, but was recovered by
the Carthaginian general Carthalo, and occupied with a strong garrison. Diodorus
tells us it was called in his time Acellum, but it is evidently the same with
the Aighitharos akra of Ptolemy, which he places between Drepanum and Lilybaeum;
and is probably the headland now called Capo S. Teodoro, which is immediately
opposite to the island of Burrone. (Diod. xxiv. Exc. H. p. 50; Zonar. viii. 15:
Ptol. iii. 4. § 4; Cluver. Sicil. p. 248.)
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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