(), a Sicilian nymph, and according to Alcimus (apud
Schol. Theocrit. 1.65), a daughter of Uranus and Gaea, or of Briareus.
Simonides said that she had acted as arbitrator between Hephaestus and Demeter respecting the
possession of Sicily. By Zeus or Hephaestus she became the mother of the Palici. (Serv. ad Acn. 9.584.) Mount Aetna in Sicily was believed to have derived its name
from her, and under it Zeus buried Typhon, Enceladus, or Briareus. The mountain itself was
believed to be the place in which Hephaestus and the Cyclops made the thunderbolts for Zeus.
(De
Divinat. 2.19.)