Echetla

Echetla was a town in ancient Sicily located between Carthaginian and Syracusan territory during the First Punic War.[1] In 263 BC The Roman consul Appius Claudius Caudex unsuccessfully laid siege to Echetla but was forced to withdraw to Messana after suffering many losses.[2]

Citations
  1. Polybius, The Histories, 1:15.10
  2. Diodorus Siculus, Biblioteca Historica, 23.3


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