BRICINNIAE
BRICINNIAE (
Βρικιννίαι), a small town of Sicily, mentioned by Thucydides, who calls it a fortress or stronghold (
ἔρυμα) in the territory of Leontini.
It was occupied in B.C. 422 by a body of exiles from Leontini, who held it against the Syracusans. (
Thuc. 5.4.)
But no subsequent mention of the name occurs, except in Stephanus of Byzantium, who probably took it from Thucydides.
It was evidently but a small place, and its site cannot now be determined with precision.
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