Sicels
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History of the Peloponnesian War
Native Sicilian people who come to the aid of Naxos against the Messanians.
Meanwhile the Sicels came down from the highlands in great numbers to assist against the Messanians;
having held them, after they crossed over, nearly three hundred years before any Greeks came into Sicily;
The Sicels, again, went over into Sicily from Italy, (for it was there that they used to live,) while flying from some Opicans;
Stromata
People near Italy credited with inventing the phorminx and castanets.
The Sicels, near Italy, first found the phorminx, not much inferior to the lyre, and devised the castanets.
Odyssey
A foreign people to whom a suitor proposes selling Odysseus and Theoklymenos into slavery.
Let me persuade you, for it will be much better, to put them on board ship and send them off to the Sicels to sell for what they will bring.