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- ↑ vi. p. 257.
- ↑ Homer The Odyssey xii. 73, etc., 235, etc.
- ↑ Seneca Ep. 79; William Henry Smyth, Sicily, p. 107.
- ↑ Strabo vi. p. 257.
- ↑ Pliny iii. 5. s. 10; Pomponius Mela ii. 4. § 8; Ptolemy iii. 1. § 9.; Stephanus of Byzantium s. v.)
- ↑ ancient: Caenys Prom.
- ↑ Smyth, Sicily, p. 108.
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