“Tum rapta præceps Ennea virgine flexit.”
Diodorus Siculus, lib. v. cap. 3, says that there was a fable about the seizure of the virgin [Proserpine] in the meadows near Enna. The locality is very near the town, embellished with violets and all kinds of beautiful flowers. An ancient coin of the place described by Ezech. Spanheim, page 906, is inscribed with the letters M U N. H E N N A E. Pliny, lib. iii. cap. 8, writes, “Municipes Hennenses.”
[2317] About 146 years B. C.
[2318] The sentence from “Eryx” to “notice,” placed between daggers, seems to have been transposed from the end of § 5; it should immediately succeed the words Ægestus the Trojan.
[2319] Diodorus Siculus, lib. iv. § 83, tom. i. p. 326, gives a different account of the state of this place at this time.
[2320] The Carthaginians had destroyed it about 409 years B. C.
[2321] Some colonists from Rhodes made a settlement here 45 years after the foundation of Syracuse. It was overthrown about 279 years B. C.
[2322] Milazzo.
[2323] About 649 B. C.
[2324] It is supposed that Callipolis anciently occupied the site of Mascalis.