Κατάνη

Katane: a city in Sicily. Hekataios in his Europe: ‘and next Katane, a city, and above it Mount Aitne’. Charondas was from Katane, one of the lawmakers made famous by the Athenians. It got this name either from when the ship of Theokles of Chalkis went down the River Amenanos, for the Dorians pronounce 'ship' as 'nan' without the υ; or because when Aitne was placed there what was above became below. There is also another Katane, opposite Lesbos, spoken of in the plural. The ethnonym is 'Katanaios' also in both the feminine and the neuter.