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great importance, and had no advantages of position. It was destroyed by Gelon about 481 B.C., and its walls seem to have been razed to the ground. In the Athenian expedition against Syracuse (415-413) Lamachus proposed (it being then deserted) to make it the Athenian See also:

BASE

base of operations; but his See also:

ADVICE (Fr. avis, from Lat. ad, to, and visum, viewed)

advice was not taken, and in the next See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring the Syracusans fortified it. In 309 it was still fortified; but, after See also:

MARCELLUS

Marcellus captured it, in 214, we hear little more of it. Excavations carried on in 1881 led to the See also:

DISCOVERY

discovery of the See also:

NORTHERN

northern portion of the western town See also:

wall, which in one See also:

section served at the same See also:

time as an See also:

EMBANKMENT

embankment against floods (it was apparently more conspicuous in the time of P. Cluver, Sicilia, p. 133), of an extensive See also:

NECROPOLIS

necropolis, about r000 tombs of which have been explored, and of a See also:

DEPOSIT (Lat. depositurn, from deponere, to lay down, to put in the care of)

deposit of votive See also:

OBJECTS

objects from a See also:

temple. The See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour See also:

lay to the See also:

north of the town. See P.

Orsi in Monumenti dei Lincei (1891), i. 689-950; and Atti del congresso delle scienze storiche, v. 181 (See also:

Rome, 1904). (T.

End of Article: MEGARA HYBLAEA (perhaps identical with HYSLA MAJOR)

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