. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. re disappeared. Ovid callsthe lake Fergus ^see p. 592 . The myth is told at length in Jlet. v. 385-408, andmore briefly by Silius Italicus :— Enna deum lucis sacras dedit ardua dextras. Hie specus, ingentem laxans telluris hiatum, Csecum iter ad manes tenebroso limite pandit. Qua novus ignotas Hymenteus venit in oras. Hac Stygius quondam, stimulante Cupidine, rector Ausus adire diem, mtestoque Acheronte relicto Egit in illicitas currum per inania terras. Tum rapta praeceps Enntea virgine fiexit
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. re disappeared. Ovid callsthe lake Fergus ^see p. 592 . The myth is told at length in Jlet. v. 385-408, andmore briefly by Silius Italicus :— Enna deum lucis sacras dedit ardua dextras. Hie specus, ingentem laxans telluris hiatum, Csecum iter ad manes tenebroso limite pandit. Qua novus ignotas Hymenteus venit in oras. Hac Stygius quondam, stimulante Cupidine, rector Ausus adire diem, mtestoque Acheronte relicto Egit in illicitas currum per inania terras. Tum rapta praeceps Enntea virgine fiexit Attonitos coE-li tIsu lucemque parentes In Styga rursus equos, et pr-aedam condidit umbris.—xiv. 233.^ This river, now the Abisso, stagnates about its mouth, but in its uppercourse is a brawling impetuous torrent : the following descriptions are equallycorrect of its different parts :— Exsupero preepingue solum stagnantis Helori.—iii- clamosus Helorus. Sil. Ital. xiv. 269. 9 Queeque procelloso Cephaloedias ora profundoCaeruleis horret campis pascentia cete. In. xiv. 252. 2 D 2. Coin of Enna. 604 SICILIA. Book 1Y. nallv only a fortress on a lofty rock belonging to the Himerfeans. butafterwards a town, first noticed in 396, and captured by treachery bythe Eomans in 254—Halesa, or Alsesa, near Tusa, on the X. coast, aSiculian town, founded in 403 by citizens of Herbita and others,and under the Romans one of the chief towns of Sicily, until ruinedby the exactions of Torres—Calacte,^ Caro/ua, situated E. of Halesa, ona portion of the coast which, for its beauty and fertility, was namedthe fair coast, a name which was subsequently affixed to a townfounded by Sicilians and others about 400—Aluntium, San Marco,E. of Calacte, a place which suffered severely from the exactions ofYerres—Tyndaris, Tindaro. W. of ^lylee, founded by the elder Diony-sius in 395, and peopled with Messenians, the he ad-quarters ofAgrippa in the war against Sextus Pompei
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