THAPSUS  , a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low See also:

• PENINSULA
• PENINSULA (Lat. paeninsula, from paene, almost, and insula, an island)

peninsula, now known as Magnisi, joined by a narrow See also:

• ISTHMUS (Gr.io0pbs, neck)

isthmus to the mainland of See also:

• SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, about 7 M . N.N.W. of See also:

• SYRACUSE
• SYRACUSE (Gr. Mvpaaovoat; Lat. Syracusae, Ital. Siracusa)

Syracuse . The founders of See also:

• MEGARA

Megara Hyblaea settled here temporarily, according to See also:

• THUCYDIDES (OovavMns)

Thucydides, in the See also:

• WINTER, JOHN STRANGE
• WINTER, PETER (c. 1755-1825)

winter of 729-728 B.C., but it seems to have] remained almost if not entirely uninhabited until the Athenians used it as a See also:

• NAVAL

naval station in their attack on Syracuse See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early in 414 B.C . A number of tombs were excavated in 1894, containing See also:

• OBJECTS

objects belonging to a transitional See also:

• STAGE (Fr. 6/age; from Lat. stare, to stand)

stage between the second and third Sicel See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, attributable roughly to 1000-900 B.C., and with a certain proportion of Mycenean importations . See Orsi in Monumenti dei Lincei (1897), vi . 89-150 .