River
Fluvius Simetus
Simeto
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The copyist placed the river Fluvius Simetus too far up the Sicilian coast, setting it between Tauromenium and Syracuse. The Greek historian Thucydides put its mouth on the east coast of Sicily, between Leontini and Catana, today's Catania. Ancient writers usually called it Symaethus, among them the geographers Strabo and Ptolemy and the poets Virgil and Ovid. A list of places compiled in Ravenna seems to give a garbled form, Simsma. The river is the Simeto.