220 pliny's NATUKAL HISTOBT. [Book III. 
tim\ the Halesini^, tlie Hennenses, tlie Hyblenses^, tlie 
Herbitenses^, toe 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 jSTaxii^^, the 
Nosei^^, the Petrini^^, the Paropmi^^, the Phthinthienses^^, the 
Semellitani, the Scherini, the Selinuntii^^, the Symsethii, the 
site was probably the modern Terranova, near the river Fiume di 
Terranova. 
1 The people probably of Gralata or Gralaria ; on the site of which the 
modern village of Gralata is supposed to stand. 
2 The people probably of Halesa ; its ruins are supposed to be those 
near the village of Tysa, near the river Pettineo. 
^ The people of Hybla. There were three cities of this name in Sicily, 
the Grreater, the Less, 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 miles from Syracuse, on 
the site, it is supposed, of the present Pantahca. 
6 The people of Halicyse, in the west of Sicily. The modern town of 
Salemi is supposed to occupy its site. 
" The people of Adranum or Hadranum, a town famous for its temple 
of the Sicihan deity Adranus. Its site is occupied by the modern town 
of Aderno. The ruins are very considerable. 
s The people of letse ; the site of which town is said by Fazello to be 
the modern lato. The sites of the places previously mentioned cannot 
be identified. 
^ The site of their town is situate at the modern Mistretta, 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. 
^1 Probably the people of Motuca, mentioned by Ptolemy, now Modica. 
Their town probably stood on the site of the present Mineo. 
^3 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. 
1^ The ruins of the town of Petra are supposed to have been those to 
be seen near Castro Novo, according to Mannert. 
1^ Fazello is of opinion that the present CoUsano occupies the site of 
the ancient Paropus. 
^7 The city of Phthinthias was peopled by the inhabitants of Grela, 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 Selinus previously menf^ioned in p. 218. 
