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CAMARINA , an See also: ancient See also:city of See also:Sicily, situated on the See also:south See also:coast, about 17 m. S.E. of See also:Gela (See also:Terranova). It was founded by See also:Syracuse in 599 B.C., but destroyed by the See also:mother city ih 552 for attempting to assert its See also:independence. See also:Hippocrates of Gilareceived its territory from Syracuse and restored the See also:town in 492, but it was destroyed by Gelon in 484; the Geloans, however, founded it anew in 461. It seems to have been in See also:general hostile to Syracuse, but, though an ally of See also:Athens in 427, it gave some slight help to Syracuse in 415-413. It was destroyed by the Carthaginians in 405, restored by See also:Timoleon in 339 after its See also:- ABANDONMENT (Fr. abandonnement, from abandonner, to abandon, relinquish; abandonner was originally equivalent to mettred banddn, to leave to the jurisdiction, i.e. of another, bandon being from Low Latin bandum, bannum, order, decree, " ban ")
abandonment by See also:Dionysius's See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order, but in 258 See also:fell into the hands of the See also:Romans. Its See also:complete destruction See also:dates from A.D. 853. The site of the ancient city is among rapidly shifting sandhills, and the lack of See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone in the neighbourhood has led to its buildings being used as a See also:quarry even by the inhabitants of Terranova, so that nothing is now visible above ground but a small See also:part of the See also:wall of the See also:temple of See also:Athena and a few See also:foundations of houses; portions of the city wall have been traced by excavation, and the See also:necropolis has been carefully explored (see J. Schubring in Philologus, xxxii. 490; P. Orsi in Monumenti dei Lincei, ix. 201, 1899; xiv. 756, 1904). To the See also: north See also:lay the See also:lake to which the See also:answer of the Delphic See also:oracle referred, jn) elv Kaµaptvav, when the citizens inquired as to the advisability of draining it.
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