Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography/Bucinna

​BUCINNA, is mentioned by Pliny (iii. 8. s. 14) among the small islands on the W. coast of Sicily. As he enumerates it next to Aegusa, it is supposed to be the same called by Ptolemy Phorbantia, now ​Levanzo [Aegates]. Steph. Byz. calls Bucinna (Βούκιννα) a town of Sicily; but if this refer to the Bucinna of Pliny, it can hardly be Levanzo, which appears to have been never inhabited by more than a few fishermen. (Smyth's Sicily, p. 247.) [ E. H. B. ]

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