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HIMERA , a See also:city on the See also:north See also:coast of See also:Sicily, on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill above the See also:east See also:bank of the Himeras Septentrionalis. It was founded in 648 B.C. by the Chalcidian inhabitants of Zancle, in See also:company with many Syracusan exiles. See also:Early in the 5th See also:century the See also:tyrant Terillas, son-in-See also:law of Anaxilas of Rhegium and Zancle; appealed to the Carthaginians, who came to his assistance, but were utterly defeated by Gelon of See also:Syracuse in 48o B.c.—on the same See also:day, it is said, as the See also:battle of See also:Salamis. Thrasydaeus, son of Theron of See also:Agrigentum, seems to have ruled the city oppressively, but an See also:appeal made to See also:Hiero of Syracuse, Gelon's See also:brother, was betrayed by him to Theron; the latter massacred all his enemies and in the following See also:year resettled the See also:town. In 415 it refused to admit the Athenian See also:fleet and remained an ally of Syracuse. In 408 the Carthaginian invading See also:army under See also:Hannibal, after capturing See also:Selinus, invested and took Himera
and razed the city to the ground, See also:founding a new town See also:close to the hot springs (Thermae Himeraeae), 8 m. to the See also:west. The only relic of the See also:ancient town now visible above ground is a small portion (four columns, See also:lower See also:diameter 7 ft.) of a Doric See also:temple, the date of which (whether before or after 480 B.C.) is uncertain.
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