Around 263 BC, the Etnean Decuman City was far-famed as Catina and Catana. The former has been primarily utilized for a supposed assonance with "catina", namely the Latin feminization of the vocable "catinus".[4] Catinus hides, in fact, two main values: "a gulf, a basin, a bay" and "a bowl, a vessel, a trough". Both explications may be admissible thanks to the city’s distinctive trait and topography. Catania has constantly abutted on the waters of its vast homonymous Gulf, and besides she has always been reconstructed without having to fear of growing on the blackish asperities of the acuminate slopes of Etna.
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