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HIMERA

Volume 8 · 88 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), the name of two rivers in Sicily; one running northwards into the Tuscan sea, now called Fiume di Termini; and the other southwards into the Lybian; dividing Sicily into two parts, being the boundary between the Syracusans to the east and Carthaginians to the west; not rising from the same, but from different springs.

(anc. geog.), a town of Sicily, at the mouth of the Himera, which ran northwards, on its left or west side: A colony of Zancle: afterwards destroyed by the Carthaginians (Diodorus Siculus).