Excerpt from Geographical and Historical Description of Ancient Italy
Not only, therefore, is the above notion of the origin of the Siculi preferable to that of Freret, as being grounded at least upon positive historical evi dence, but as affording likewise as clear and intel ligible a connection of events as we can hope to trace at so remote and obscure an epoch in the history of Italy.
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