in Ancient Geography, a city of Sicily, situated on the most westerly promontory of the island of Sicily, and said to have been founded by the Carthaginians on their expulsion from Metya by Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse. It is remarkable for three sieges it sustained; one again Dionysius the tyrant, another against Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, and the third against the Romans. The two first failed in their attempts, but the Romans with great difficulty made themselves masters of it. No remains of this once stately city are now to be seen, except some aqueducts and temples; though it was standing in Strabo's time.