[2325] Those who inhabited Hybla Minor. We know that Selinus was in existence 640 B. C., and destroyed 268 B. C.
[2326] Now ruins called di Pollece on the river Madiuni in the Terra de’ Pulci.
[2327] The Leontini arrived in Sicily 728 B. C., and founded Leontini, now Lentini.
[2328] Eubœa was destroyed by the tyrant Gelon, who reigned from 491 to 478 B. C.Eubali, Castellazzio, and a place near the little town of Licodia, not far from the source of the Drillo, have been supposed to be the site of the ancient Eubœa. Siebenkees thinks that the words between daggers at the end of § 7 should follow “Eubœa.”
[2329] Lit. barbarians.
[2330] About 134 B. C.
[2331] Castro-Ioanni.
[2332] Kramer and Siebenkees consider that the sentence between daggers, from “The” to “prosperity,” has been transferred from its proper place. See note (12), page 412.
[2333] The French translators infer from this passage that Strabo had never visited Sicily.
[2334] Sicilian topographers vary exceedingly in defining the position of these mountains. Groskurd makes them Madonia.