ACHERI´NI the inhabitants of a small town in Sicily, mentioned only by Cicero among the victims of the oppressions of Verres. Its position is quite uncertain; whence modern scholars propose to read either Scherini, or ACHERINI from ACHETUM, a town supposed to be mentioned by Silius Italicus (Sil. Ital. 14.268); but the pubes liquentis Acheti(or Achaeti, as the name stands in the best MSS.) of that author would seem to indicate a river rather than a town. There is, however, no authority for either emendation. (Cic. Ver. 3.4. 3; Zumpt ad loc.;Orell. Onomast. p. 6; Cluver. Sicil. p. 381.)
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