Book 6
2.5
One of the remaining sides, that stretching from Pachynus to Lilybaeum, is entirely deserted; still it preserves a few traces of the ancient inhabitants, one of whose cities was Camarina.Now Camarana: it was founded 600 years B. C. Acragas,Girgenti. which was a colony of the Geloi,Apparet Camarina procul, campique Geloi. Virg. Aen. iii. 701. together with its port and Lilybaeum,Marsalla. still exist. In fact, these regions, lying opposite to Carthage, have been wasted by the great and protracted wars which have been waged. The remaining and greatest side, although it is by no means densely peopled, is well occupied, for Alaesa,I Bagni. Tyndaris,S. Maria di Tindaro. the emporiumCastel-à-Mare. of the Aegestani and Cephaloedium,Cefalù. are respectable towns. Panormus has received a Roman colony: they say that AegestaNow ruins at Barbara. was founded by the Greeks who passed over, as we have related when speaking of Italy, with Philoctetes to the Crotoniatis, and were by him sent to Sicily with AegestusAlso called Acestes. the Trojan.
