. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . e of road was in use whichcrossed the island from Agrigentum direct to Pa-norama (Itbt. Ant. p. 96). but none of its stationsare known, and we are therefore unabie to determineeven its general course. The other routes given inthe Itinerary of Antoninus are only unimportantVariations of the preceding ones. The Tabula givesonly the one general line around the island (crossing,however, from Calvisiana on the S. coast direct toSyracuse), and the cross line already mentioned fromThermae to Catana. All discussion of distancesalong the above routes must be
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . e of road was in use whichcrossed the island from Agrigentum direct to Pa-norama (Itbt. Ant. p. 96). but none of its stationsare known, and we are therefore unabie to determineeven its general course. The other routes given inthe Itinerary of Antoninus are only unimportantVariations of the preceding ones. The Tabula givesonly the one general line around the island (crossing,however, from Calvisiana on the S. coast direct toSyracuse), and the cross line already mentioned fromThermae to Catana. All discussion of distancesalong the above routes must be rejected as useless,until the routes themselves can be more accuratelydetermined, which is extremely difficult in so hillyand broken a country as the greater part of theinterior of Sicily. The similarity of names, whichin Italy is so often a sure guide where all other in-dications are wanting, is of far less assistance inSicily, where the long period of Arabic dominion hasthrown the nomenclature of the island into greatconfusion [E. H. COLN OF SICILIA. SICILIBBA or SICILIBRA (in the Geogr. , iii. 5), a place in Africa Propria (Itin. 25, 45), variously identified with Bazilbah andHaouch Alouina. [T. H. D.] SICINOS (SiWos: Eth. %ueu>lrijs: Sikino), asmall island in the Aegaean sea, one of the Sporades,lying between Phulegandros and Ios, and containinga town of the same name. (Scylax, p. 19; p. 484; Ptol. iii. 15. § 31.) It is said to havebeen originally called Oenoe from its cultivation ofthe vine, but to have been named Sicinos after a sonof Thoas and Oenoe. (Steph. B. s. v.; Apoll. 623; Schol. ad loc.\ Plin. iv. 12. s. 23; p. 712. 49.) Wine is still the chief productionof the island. It was probably colonised by most of the other Grecian islands, it submittedto Xerxes (Herod, viii. 4), but it afterwards formedpart of the Atheuian maritime empire. There aresome remains of the ancient city situated upon a loftyand
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