in Ancient Geography, the name of several cities of Sicily. Two of these places were of considerable note. The most important of them was distinguished by the epithet Magna or Major. It stood on the southern side of Mount Aetna, in a district of great fertility. The only event of interest in its history was its revolt from the Romans in the second Punic War, and its speedy recapture by that people. Its site has not yet been fixed with positive certainty. Cluverius places it at Paterno, about 12 miles from Catania, and his conjecture has been followed by the best modern geographers. Hybla the Little was identical with the Greek colony of Megara, which was thence called Megara Hyblaea. It stood on the sea-coast in the territory of the Greater Hybla. In its neighbourhood were the Hyblai Colles, which produced great quantities of honey of proverbial excellence. The town itself was destroyed by Gelon of Syracuse, after an existence of about two centuries and a half, and its inhabitants were dispersed. In the second Punic War it again appears in history as making common cause with the Syracusans against Marcellus, by whom it was taken and destroyed. The ruins of this Hybla were visible till within a comparatively recent period at the mouth of a small stream called the Alabus, now the Cantaro. Near the site of the old town is the modern village of Melilli, which is said to take its name from the honey for which the surrounding hills were once so famous.