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Agatliyrnum, the colony of Tyndaris^ the town of Mylae", 
and then Pelorus, the spot at which we began. 
In the interior there are the following towns enjoying 
Latin privileges, those of the Centuripini^, the Netini^, and 
the Segestani^ ; tributary towns are those of the Assorini^, 
the ^tnenses^, the Agyrini^, the Acestsei, the Acrenses^, the 
Bidini^^, the Cetarini^\ the Cacyrini^^, the Drepanitani, 
the Ergetini^^, the Echetlienses^^, the Erycini^^, the En- 
tellini^^, the Enini^'^, the Enguini^^, the Grelani^^, the Gala- 
1 Probably situate near the church of Santa Maria at Tindari, now the 
Capo di Mongioio. 2 ]>^q^ called Melazzo. 
3 Their city was Centuripa, on a hill S.W. of ^tna. The modem 
Centorbi occupies its site, and some of its ruins may stiU be seen. 
Netum probably stood on the spot now known as Noto Anticho. 
^ The ruins of Segesta are supposed to be those near the river San 
Bartolomeo, twelve miles south of Alcamo. ^ Asaro occupies its site. 
7 A people dwelling at the foot of Mount ^tna, according to D'An- 
\alle, at a place now called Nicolosi. 
^ The people of Agyriimi ; the site of which is now called San P'ihppo 
d' Argiro. Diodorus Siculus was a native of this place. 
^ Acrse occupied a bleak hill in the vicinity of the modern Pallazolo, 
where its ruins are still to be seen. 
Their town was Bidis near Syracuse. The modern Eibino or San 
Griovanni di Bidini is supposed to stand on its site. 
The people of Cetaria, between Panormus and Drepanum, Its site 
is unknown. 
^2 The people of Cacyrum, supposed to have stood on the site of the 
modern Cassaro. The Drepanitani were so called from hving on the 
promontory of Drepanum. 
13 rpjj^e ruins near La Cittadella are probably those of Ergetium. 
The people of Echetla. According to Faziello and Cluver its ruins 
were those to be seen at the place called Occhiala or Occhula, two miles 
from the town of Grran Michele, 
The inhabitants of the city of Eryx, on the mountain of that name, 
now San Griuhano. The ancient city stood probably half-way dovra the 
mountain. 
The town of Entella survived till the thirteenth century, when it 
was destroyed by the Emperor Frederic II. The ruins were formerly to 
be seen near Poggio la Reale. 
^7 Perhaps the people of Enna, once a famous city. According to the 
story as related by Ovid and Claudian, it was from this spot that Pro- 
serpine was carried off by Pluto. It stood on the same site as the town of 
Castro G-iovanni. This note may however be more apphcable to the 
Hennenses, mentioned below. 
1^ The ruins of Enguinum are probably those in the vicinity of the 
modern town of Grangi. 
19 The people of Grela, one of the most important cities of Sicily. Its 
