Hybla

Hybla, the name of three cities of ancient Sicily. (1) An old Sicilian town situated on the southern slope of Mount Etna, which figured in the second Punic war; its site is fixed at the modern Paterno.—(2) A city founded by the Megarians about 726 B.C., and probably identified with the city called Megara. It was destroyed by Gelon of Syracuse in 481 B.C. It is believed to have stood near the modern Agosta.—(3) A third Hybla lay between Syracuse and Agrigentum. The Hyblæan honey, so much sung by Latin poets, was gathered on the hills near the first two cities.