AEGITHALLUS(Αἰγίφαλλος, Diod.; Αἰγίθαλος, Zonar.; Αἰγίθαρος, Ptol.) a promontory on the W. coast of Sicily, near Lilybaeum, which was occupied and fortified by the Roman consul L. Junius during the First Punic War (B.C. 249), with a view to support the operations against Lilybaeum, but was recovered by the Carthaginian general Carthalo, and occupied with a strong garrison. Diodorus tells us it was called in his time ACELLUM,but it is evidently the same with the Αἰγίθαρος ἄκραof Ptolemy, which he places between Drepanum and Lilybaeum; and is probably the headland now called Capo S. Teodoro, which is immediately opposite to the island of Burrone. (Diod. xxiv. Exc. H. p. 50; Zonar. 8.15: Ptol. 3.4.4; Cluver. Sicil. p. 248.)
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