Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Acherini

​ACHERI′NI, the inhabitants of a small town in Sicily, mentioned only by Cicero among the victims of the oppressions of Verres. Its position is quite uncertain; whence modern scholars propose to read other Scherini, or Achetini from Achetum, a town supposed to be mentioned by Silius Italicos (xiv. 268); but the "pubes liquentis Acheti" (or Achaeti, as the name stands in the best MS5.) of that author would seem to indicate a river rather than a town. There is, however, no authority for either emendation. (Cic. Verr. iii. 43; Zumpt ad loc.; Orell. Onomast. p. 6; Cluver. Sicil. p. 381.) [ E. H. B. ]

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