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HIMERA

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in Ancient Geography, the name of two rivers in Sicily; one running northwards into the Tunisian sea, now called Fiume di Termini; and the other southwards into the Libyan, 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.

in Ancient Geography, 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).

HIMERENSES THERMÆ, in Ancient Geography, a town of Sicily, on the east side of that Himera which runs to the north. After the destruction of the town of Himera by the Carthaginians, such of the inhabitants as remained, settled in the same territory, not far from the ancient town. Now Termini. Made a Roman colony by Augustus.