Note 2223 — Chapter II
W. (William) Falconer translation
I Bagni, or S. Maria de’ Palazzi. Groskurd gives it as Torre di Pittineo by Tusa, or Torre di Tusa. Cicero writes the name without a diphthong, “statim Messana litteras Halesam mittit.” Cic. in Verr. ii. c. 7. Diodorus spells it Ἄλεσα. Silius Italicus, lib. xiv. ver. 219, makes the penultimate long:
“Venit ab amne trahens nomen Gela, venit Halæsa.”
And the inscription in Gruter, p. 212, gives the name of the river near it, Αλαισος.