Note 2316 — Chapter II
W. (William) Falconer translation
Ovid, in the fourth book of his Fasti, thus alludes to the temple,
“Grata domus Cereri, multas ea possidet urbes, In quibus est culto fertilis Enna solo.”
From this place we have the adjective Enneus, and the Ennea virgo of Sil., lib. xiv., for Proserpine,
“Tum rapta præceps Ennea virgine flexit.”
Diodorus Siculus, lib. v. cap. 3, says that there was a fable about the seizure of the virgin [Proserpine] in the meadows near Enna. The locality is very near the town, embellished with violets and all kinds of beautiful flowers. An ancient coin of the place described by Ezech. Spanheim, page 906, is inscribed with the letters M U N. H E N N A E. Pliny, lib. iii. cap. 8, writes, “Municipes Hennenses.”