CATANA, or CATINA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicily, situated opposite to Ætna, to the south-east; one of the five Roman colonies: anciently built by the people of Naxus seven years after the building of Syracuse, 728 years before Christ. It was the country
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of Charondas the famous lawgiver. The town is still called Catana. See CATANEA.