Echetla ()Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, E292.7 was a town in ancient Sicily located between Carthaginian and Syracusan territory during the First Punic War.Polybius, The Histories, 1:15.10 In 263 BC The Roman consul Appius Claudius Caudex laid siege to Echetla but was forced to withdraw to Messana after suffering many losses.Diodorus Siculus, Biblioteca Historica, 23.3
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