Jam montes umbrare olea, dare nomina Baccho;
Nectare Cecropias Hyblæo accendere ceras;”
and Florus terms it Terra frugum ferax.
[2280] Strabo makes a distinct mention of Siculi and Sicani, as if they were different people. Philologists have been much divided as to whether they were not different appellations of the same nation.
[2281] Such as the Elymi, or Helymi, who occupied the districts bordering on the Belici in the western part of the island.
[2282] It is probable that Morgantium was situated on the right bank of the Giaretta, below its confluence with the Dattaino, but at some little distance from the sea; at least such is the opinion of Cluverius, in opposition to the views of Sicilian topographers. Sic. Ant. book ii. cap. 7, pp. 325 and 335.
[2283] The first settlement of the Carthaginians in Sicily was about 560 B. C.
[2284] 212 years B. C.
[2285] 42 years B. C.
[2286] They were called Nesos, [the island Ortygia,] Achradina, Tycha, Neapolis, and Epipolæ. Ausonius applies the epithet fourfold,