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NOTO , a See also:

city of See also:Sicily, in the See also:province of See also:Syracuse, and 20 m. S.W. of it by See also:rail, 520 ft. above See also:sea-level. Pop. Nor) 22,564. The See also:present See also:town, rebuilt after the See also:earthquake of 1693, has some See also:fine buildings of the See also:early 18th See also:century. The older town lies 5 M. See also:direct to the See also:north (1378 ft.). It was the See also:ancient Netum, a city of Sicel origin, See also:left to See also:Hiero II. by the See also:Romans by the treaty of 263 B.C. and mentioned by See also:Cicero as a foederata civitas (Verr. v. 51.. 133), and by See also:Pliny as Latinae conditionis (H.N. iii. 8. 14). The remains of this city are almost entirely hidden beneath the ruins of the See also:medieval town, except three See also:chambers cut in the See also:rock, one of which is shown, by an inscription in the library at Noto, to have belonged to the gymnasium, while the other two were heroa, or shrines of heroes.

But explorations have brought to See also:

light four cemeteries of the third Sicel See also:period, and one of the See also:Greek period, of the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C. There are also catacombs of the See also:Christian period and some See also:Byzantine tombs. See P. Orsi in Notizie degli scavi, 1897, 69—9o. Four See also:miles to the S. of Noto, on the left See also:bank of the Tellaro (Helorus) (E. Pais, Atakta, See also:Pisa, 1891, p. 75 seq.) stands a See also:stone See also:column about 35 ft. in height, which is believed to be a memorial of the surrender of See also:Nicias. This is uncertain; but, in any See also:case, in the 3rd century B.C. a See also:tomb was excavated in the rectangular See also:area which surrounds it, destroying apparently a pre-existing tomb. The later See also:burial belongs to the See also:necropolis of the small town of Heloron, 750 yds. to the S.E., some remains of which have been discovered. It was a small advanced See also:post of Syracuse, belonging probably to the 6th century B.C. See P. Orsi in Notizie degli scavi, 1899, 241.

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