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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 80 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CAMARINA , an See also:

ancient See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, situated on the See also:

south See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast, about 17 m. S.E. of See also:

GELA

Gela (See also:

TERRANOVA

Terranova). It was founded by See also:

Syracuse in 599 B.C., but destroyed by the See also:

MOTHER

mother city ih 552 for attempting to assert its See also:

independence. See also:

HIPPOCRATES

Hippocrates of Gilareceived its territory from Syracuse and restored the See also:

TOWN

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 (c. 411-337 B.C.)

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, but in 258 See also:

fell into the hands of the See also:

Romans. Its See also:

COMPLETE

complete destruction See also:

DATES

dates from A.D. 853. The site of the ancient city is among rapidly shifting sandhills, and the lack of See also:

stone in the neighbourhood has led to its buildings being used as a See also:

QUARRY

quarry even by the inhabitants of Terranova, so that nothing is now visible above ground but a small See also:

PART

part of the See also:

wall of the See also:

temple of See also:

ATHENA (the Attic form of the Homeric Athene, also called Athenaia, Pallas Athene, Pallas)

Athena and a few See also:

FOUNDATIONS

foundations of houses; portions of the city wall have been traced by excavation, and the See also:

NECROPOLIS

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 (derived from and, against, and the same root as swear)

answer of the Delphic See also:

ORACLE (Lat. oraculum, from ora' to pray; the corresponding Greek word is uavreiov or Xpnuri7pwov)

oracle referred, jn) elv Kaµaptvav, when the citizens inquired as to the advisability of draining it.

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