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ἴσα ἔτεα: for seven years, 498-491 B. C.

There were in Sicily three towns called Hybla all originally Sicel. The first was superseded by the Greek colony Megara (Strabo 268), on the coast ten miles north of Syracuse; the Sicel town stood on a little height north of the hill of Megara. Thucydides calls the town Megara (vi. 49, 94), and H. its citizens Megarians (ch. 156. 2); both record its destruction by Gelo in 483 B. C. (ch. 156; Th. vi. 4). The second, called by Thucydides (vi. 62) Γελεᾶτις, was in his time still a Sicel town (vi. 94); it is called by Pausanias (v. 23. 4) Γερεᾶτις, and by Steph. Byz. s. v. and Cicero (de Div. i. 20, 39) apparently Γαλεῶτις. It lay in the territory of Catana (Paus. l. c.), between Catana and Centuripa (Thuc. vi. 94), and may be placed at Paterno, where an inscription has been found, ‘Veneri victrici Hyblensi.’ The third, called Ἡραία, on the road between Gela and Syracuse (Itin. Anton. p. 89), may be placed at or near Ragusa; almost certainly it is the place here meant. Cf. further Holm, G. S. i. 363, 365; Freeman, S. i, pp. 512f.

Σικελούς: cf. ch. 170. 1.

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