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(Κατάνη; Katánē, Lat. Catina). City on the east coast of Sicily on the fertile plain south of the volcano Mount Etna [1], modern Catania; it was founded in 729 BC by Chalcidians who had some years previously settled in Naxos. In the 2nd half of the 6th cent., the lawgiver Charondas was active in C; the town was visited by Ibycus and Xenophanes; Stesichorus died there. In the 1st half of the 5th cent., C. was under the rule of Syracuse; Hieron [1] removed its in…