Κατάνη

Katane: a city of Sicily. Hekataios in book 2 of his Europa: ‘and after Katane, a city, and above it Mount Aitne.’ And from Katane was Charondas, the celebrated lawgiver among the Athenians. It is so named because the ship of Theokles the Chalkidian went down to the river Amenanos, which the Dorians say without the υ as nan, or because, when Aitne had been laid low, what was above became below. There is also another, opposite Lesbos, spoken of in the plural. The ethnonym is 'Katanaios', also in the feminine and in the neuter.