Κατάνη, πόλις Σικελίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ “μετὰ δὲ Κατάνη πόλις, ὑπὲρ δὲ ὄρος Αἴτνη”. ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Κατάνης Χαρώνδας, ὁ διάσημος τῶν Ἀθήνησι νομοθετῶν. κέκληται δὲ οὕτως, ἐπειδὴ κατέβη πρὸς τὸν Ἀμενανὸν ποταμὸν ἡ Θεοκλέους τοῦ Χαλκιδέως ναῦς, ἣν Δωριεῖς χωρὶς τοῦ « υ » νᾶν φασιν, ἢ ὅτι τῆς Αἴτνης κατατεθείσης τὰ ἄνω κάτω γέγονεν. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη κατέναντι τῆς Λέσβου πληθυντικῶς λεγομένη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καταναῖος καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως.
Katane: a city of Sicily. Hekataios, in his *Europa*: “and after Katane, a city, and above it Mount Aitna.” From Katane was Charondas, the celebrated lawgiver among the Athenians. It is so called because the ship of Theokles the Chalkidian put in toward the river Amenanos; the Dorians, omitting the upsilon, call it *nan* (for *naun*, ‘ship’). Or else because, when Aitna collapsed, what was above became below. There is also another (Katane) opposite Lesbos, named in the plural. The ethnic is Katanaios, in masculine, feminine, and neuter.