Longanus

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The Longanus (also Longanos or Loitanus) was a river in north-eastern Sicily on the Mylaean plain. As recorded by Polybius, it was where the Mamertines were drastically defeated by Hiero II of Syracuse in around 269 BC.^[1] The small settlement of was near it. The river was considered so important that it was represented as a God in coins.^[2] Some archeologists identify it with the river that arises in the valley of Fondachelli-Fantina town called Patrì or Fantina.^[3]

The huge bed of the Patrì river is a reason it is considered the true Longanus River^{[clarification needed]}

This bronze kerykeion at the British Museum is the only object known that Longanus has given back apart the coin

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