a town of Sicily, near the S.E. extremity of the island, 12 miles east of Mazzara. It is well and regularly built, and has a population of about 14,000. Near it are the ruins of the ancient city Selinus, which was destroyed by the Carthaginians, B.C. 409.

CASTELLI, Dr Edmund (1606–1685), a learned English divine and orientalist. He was educated at Cambridge, where he became master of Catharine Hall and Arabic professor; and was afterwards appointed canon of Canterbury. He had a large share in the publication of the London Polyglott, and wrote the Lexicon Heptaglottion or dictionary of seven languages. On this latter work, which occupied a great part of his life, he expended no less than L12,000. When printed, the copies remained unsold, and were afterwards destroyed by vermin so as to be utterly unsaleable. He obtained several ecclesiastical preferments; and at the time of his death was rector of Higham Gobyon, in Bedfordshire. He bequeathed his oriental MSS. to the university of Cambridge, on condition that his name should be written on every copy.