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HIMERA

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in Ancient Geography, the name of two rivers in Sicily; one running northwards into the Tufcan sea, now called Fiume de 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).