“Flowing from the heights of Pindus and Lacmus, passes from the country of the Perrhœbi[2296] to that of the Amphilochi[2297] and the Acarnanians, and mingles its waters with the Achelous:”[2298] and further on [he says], “Thence to Argos, cutting through the waves, it comes to the territory of Lyrceius.” Those who would have the river Inopus to be a branch of the Nile flowing to Delos, exaggerate this kind of marvel to the utmost. Zoïlus the rhetorician, in his Eulogium of the people of Tenedos, says that the river Alpheus flows from Tenedos: yet this is the man who blames Homer for fabulous writing. Ibycus also says that the Asopus, a river of Sicyon,[2299] flows from Phrygia. Hecatæus is more rational, who says that the Inachus of the Amphilochi, which flows from Mount Lacmus, from whence also the Æas[2300] descends, was distinct from the river of like name in Argolis, and was so named after Amphilochus, from whom likewise the city of Argos was denominated Amphilochian. He says further, that this river falls into the Achelous, and that the Æas flows to Apollonia[2301] towards the west. On each side of the island there is an extensive harbour; the extent of the larger one is 80[2302] stadia. [Augustus] Cæsar has not only restored this city, but Catana, and likewise Centoripa,[2303] which had contributed much towards the overthrow of [Sextus] Pompey. Centoripa is situated above Catana and confines with the mountains of Ætna and the river Giaretta,[2304] which flows into Catanæa. 5. One of the remaining sides, that stretching from Pachynus to Lilybæum, is entirely deserted; still it preserves a few traces of the ancient inhabitants, one of whose cities was Camarina.[2305] Acragas,[2306] which was a colony of the Geloi,[2307] together with its port and Lilybæum,[2308] 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 Alæsa,[2309] Tyndaris,[2310] the emporium[2311] of the Ægestani and Cephalœdium,[2312] are respectable towns. Panormus has received a Roman colony: they say that Ægesta[2313] 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 Ægestus[2314] the Trojan.