Himĕra

, a city of Sicily built by the people of Zancle, and destroyed by the Cart hag in i ans 240 years after. Strabo , bk. 6 .――There were two rivers of Sicily of the same name, the one, now Fiumi de Termini , falling at the east of Panormus into the Tuscan sea, with a town of the same name at its mouth, and also celebrated baths. Cicero , Against Verres , bk. 4 , ch. 33 . The other, now Fiume Salso , running in a southern direction, and dividing the island in almost two parts. Livy , bk. 24 , ch. 6 ; bk. 25 , ch. 49 .――The ancient name of the Eurotas. Strabo , bk. 6 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 7 .— Polybius.