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COLUMBARIA

Volume 5 · 41 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), an island like a rock on the west of Sicily, opposite to Drepanum; said by Zonaras to have been taken from the Carthaginians by Numerius Fabius the consul. Now Columbara, with a very strong and almost impregnable citadel (Cluverius).