220 plikt's NATTJEAL HISTOBY. [Book IIL 



tini*, tlic Halesini', the Hennenses, the Hyblenses', the 

 Herbitenses*, tbe Herbessenses'*, the Herbulenses, the Hali- 

 cyenses*', the Hadranitani', the Imacarenses, the Ipanenses, 

 the letenses*, the Mytistratini^, the Magellini, the Mur- 

 gentini^", the Muty censes", the Menanini^^, the Naxii'^, the 

 No8ei^^ the Petrini'*, the Paropini^', the Phthinthieuses'^ the 

 Semellitani, the Scherini, the Selinuntii^*, the Symaethii, the 



site was probably the modem Terranova, near the river Fiume di 

 Terranova. 



1 The people probably of Qtdata or Gtdaria ; on the site of which the 

 modem village of Galata is supposed to stand. 



2 The people probably of Halesa ; its ruins are supposed to be those 

 uear the village of Tysa, near the river Pettineo. 



' The people of Hybla. There were three cities of this name in Sicily, 

 the Greater, the L^s, and Hybla Megara. The name was probably 

 derived from the local divinity mentioned by Pausanias as being so 

 called. 



■* The people of Herbita ; the site of which was probably at Nicosia, 

 or else at Sperlinga, two miles south of it. 



* There were two places in Sicily known as Herbessus or Erbessus — 

 one near Agrigentum, the other about sixteen nules from Syracuse, on 

 the site, it is supposed, of the pfesent Pantahca. 



* The people of Halicyse, in the west of Sicily. The modem town of 

 Salemi is supposed to occupy its site. 



^ The people of Adranum or Hadranum, a town famous for its temple 

 of the Sicilian deity Adranus. Its site is occupied by the modem toAvn 

 of Ademo. The ruins are very considerable. 



8 The people of letse ; the site of which town is said by Fazello to be 

 the modem lato. The sites of the places previously mentioned cannot 

 be identified. 



" The site of their town is situate at the modem Miatretta, where some 

 ruins are still to be seen. 



1" The site of their town was probably the present village of Mandri 

 Bianchi on the river Dittaino. 



" Probably the people of Motuca, mentioned by Ptolemy, now Modica. 



1=^ Their town probably stood on the site of the present Mineo. 



1' It has been suggested that these are the same as the people of Tau- 

 romenium, said to have been a Naxian colony. 



'^* They are supposed to have dwelt on the site of the present Noara. 



15 The ruins of the town of Petra are supposed to have been those to 

 be seen near Castro Novo, according to Mannert. 



1' FazeUo is of opinion that the present Colisano occupies the site of 

 the ancient Paropus. 



17 The city of Phthinthias was peopled by the inhabitants of Gela, by 

 command of Phthinthias the despot of Agrigentum. Its ruins are pro- 

 bably those seen in the vicinity of the modern Alicata. 



^ The people of SeUnus previously mentioned in p. 218. 



