History of the Peloponnesian War

In the fifth year after the settlement of Syracuse, Thucles and the Chalcidians, setting forth from Naxos, drove out the Sicels in war and settled Leontini, and after it Catana.[*](729 B.C.) The Catanaeans, however, chose for themselves Evarchus as founder.

About the same time Lamis also came to Sicily with a colony from Megara and settled in a place called Trotilus, beyond the river Pantaeyas; but afterwards, having removed from there and joined the settlement of the Chalcidians at Leontini, he was a little later driven out by them, and then after colonizing Thapsus[*](A peninsula just north of Syracuse (now called Isola di Magnisi).) met his death. His followers were expelled from Thapsus and settled then at a place called Megara Hyblaea,[*](728 B.C.) since Hyblon, a Sicel king, gave up the land to them and led them to the site.