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That city is so great that it may be said to consist of four cities of the largest
size; one of which, as I have said, is that “Island,” which,
surrounded by two harbours, projects out towards the mouth and entrance of each. In
it there is a palace which did belong to king Hiero, which our praetors are in the
habit of using; in it are many sacred buildings, but two, which have a great
pre-eminence over all the others,—one a temple of Diana, and the other
one, which before the arrival of that man was the most ornamented of all, sacred to
Minerva. At the end of this island is a fountain of sweet water, the name of which
is Arethusa, of incredible size, very full of fish, which would be entirely
overwhelmed by the waves of the sea, if it were not protected from the sea by a
rampart and dam of stone.
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