ICHANA
ICHANA (
Ἴχανα: Eth.
Ἰχανῖνος), a city of Sicily, which, according to Stephanus of Byzantium, held out for a long time against the arms of the Syracusans, whence he derives its name (from the verb
ἰχανάω, a form equivalent to
ἰσχανάω), but gives us no indication of the period to which this statement refers. The Ichanenses, however, are mentioned by Pliny (
3.8. s. 14) among the stipendiary towns of the interior of Sicily, though, according to Sillig (
ad loc.), the true reading is Ipanenses. [
HIPPANA] In either case we have no clue to the position of the city, and it is a mere random conjecture of Cluverius to give the name of Ichana to the ruins of a city which still remain at a place called
Vindicari, a few miles N. of Cape Pachynum, and which were identified (with still less probability) by Fazello as those of Imachara. [
IMACHARA]
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