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YKARA (Ancient city) SICILY
Hyccara or Hycara (Hukkara, Thuc.; Hnkara, Diod, Steph: B.: Eth. Hukareus,
Id.), a small town on the N. coast of Sicily between Panormus and the port of
Segesta. Thucydides tells us it was a Sicanian town; and it appears to have been
independent of, and on hostile terms with, the neighbouring city of Segesta. Hence,
during the Athenian expedition to Sicily, B.C. 415, Nicias, as he was proceeding
with the fleet along the N. coast of the island, landed at Hyccara, which he took
and plundered, and afterwards made it over to the Segestans. (Thuc. vi. 62; Diod.
xiii. 6.) The Athenians are said to have realised 100 talents by the booty thus
acquired: among the captives taken on this occasion was the celebrated courtesan
Lais, then a mere child, who was carried to Corinth and there sold as a slave.
(Plut. Nic. 15, Alcib. 39; Athen. xiii. p. 589; Paus. ii. 2. § 5; Steph. B. s.
v. Hukara; Schol. in Aristoph. Plut. 179.) No subsequent notice of Hyccara is
found in history: it probably continued to be but a small place, and a mere dependency
of Segesta or Panormus: but it did not cease to exist, for its name reappears
in the Itinerary of Antoninus (pp. 91, 97), which places it M. P. from Panormus,
proceeding along the coast to the westward. This distance coincides with a place
called Muro di Carini, where, according to Fazello, the ruins of an ancient town
were still visible in his time. The modern town of Carini (the name of which is
probably derived from that of Hyccara) has been removed to a distance of three
miles inland. (Fazell. de Reb. Sic. vii. 6; Cluver. Sicil. p. 272.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(ta Hukkara). A town of the Sicani on the north coast of Sicily, west of Panormus, taken by the Athenians, and its inhabitants sold as slaves, B.C. 415. Among the captives was the beautiful Timandra, the mistress of Alcibiades and the mother of Lais. The place was said to get its name from the fish hukai.
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