a mountain of Sicily, near the valleys Mazara and Noto, upon which was situated (as is generally thought) the famous Dédalion, where the tyrant Phalaris kept his brazen bull.
a town of Sicily, remarkable for corn and good wine. It was plundered by the Turks in 1543; and is seated on a fort of peninsula near the sea, twenty-two miles S. E. of Grgenti. E. Long. 15° 20'. N. Lat. 37° 11'.