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AKRILA (Ancient city) SICILY
Acrilla or Acrillae (Akrilla)), a town of Sicily, known only from
Stephanus of Byzantium (s. v.), who tells us that it was not far from Syracuse.
But there can be no doubt that it is the same place mentioned by Livy (xxiv. 35)
where the Syracusan army under Hippocrates was defeated by Marcellus. The old
editions of Livy have Accilae, for which Acrillae, the emendation of Cluverius,
has been received by all the recent editors. From this passage we learn that it
was on the line of march from Agrigentum to Syracuse, and not far from Acrae;
but the exact site is undetermined. Plutarch (Marcell. 18), in relating the same
event, writes the name Akilas or Akillas.
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
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