“Quis Catinam sileat? quis quadruplices Syracusas?”
Dionysius however fortified Epipolæ with a wall, and joined it to the city.
[2287] Twenty-two miles four perches English. Swinburne spent two days in examining the extent of the ruins, and was satisfied as to the accuracy of Strabo’s statement.
[2288] A river of Elis.
[2289] Virgil thus deals with the subject:
“Sicanio prætenta sinu jacet insula contra
Plemmyrium undosum: nomen dixere priores
Ortygiam. Alpheum fama est huc, Elidis amnem,
Occultas egisse vias subter mare; qui nunc
Ore, Arethusa, tuo Siculis confunditur undis.”