sentences:  Strabo writes that it was near Centuripe, and was the place from whence travellers usually ascended the mountain.But in another passage he expressly says that it was only 80 stadia from Catana.The "Antonine Itinerary" places it at 12 M. P. from Catana, and the same distance from Centuripi; its position between these two cities is further confirmed by Thucydides.