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ALICATA

Volume 1 · 71 words · 1815 Edition

a mountain of Sicily, near the valleys Mazara and Noto, upon which was situated (as is generally thought) the famous Dædalion, 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, 22 miles south-east of Girgenti. E. Long. 15° 20'. N. Lat. 37° 11'.