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244 A TOUR THROUGH
Orius being of a morose and gloomy dis-
position.
Ceres has ever been the favourite deity
of the Sicilians. She chose her seat of em-
pire in the center of the island, on the
top of a high hill called Enna, where me
founded the city of that name. It is Mill
a considerable place, and is now called
Caslragiovanni; but little or nothing re-
main of the ruins of Enna.
Cicero gives a particular account of this
place. He says from its situation in the
center of the issand, it was called Umbilicus
Sicilitf, and describes it as one of the moll
beautiful and fertile spots in the world. The
temple of Ceres at Enna was renowned all
over the heathen world, and pilgrimages
were made to it, as they are at present to
Loretto. Fazzello says, it was held in such
veneration, that when the city was sur-
prised and pillaged by the ssaves and bar-
barians,
Orius being of a morose and gloomy dis-
position.
Ceres has ever been the favourite deity
of the Sicilians. She chose her seat of em-
pire in the center of the island, on the
top of a high hill called Enna, where me
founded the city of that name. It is Mill
a considerable place, and is now called
Caslragiovanni; but little or nothing re-
main of the ruins of Enna.
Cicero gives a particular account of this
place. He says from its situation in the
center of the issand, it was called Umbilicus
Sicilitf, and describes it as one of the moll
beautiful and fertile spots in the world. The
temple of Ceres at Enna was renowned all
over the heathen world, and pilgrimages
were made to it, as they are at present to
Loretto. Fazzello says, it was held in such
veneration, that when the city was sur-
prised and pillaged by the ssaves and bar-
barians,