ortygea

Updated: June 23, 2025

From the Roman conquest to this final calamity, Syracuse, now dwindled to the primitive Isle of Ortygea, had insensibly declined. In Sicily, the religion and language of the Greeks were eradicated; and such was the docility of the rising generation, that fifteen thousand boys were circumcised and clothed on the same day with the son of the Fatimite caliph.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5