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Thucydides and other classical writers were aware of the traditions according to which the Sicels had once lived in Central Italy, east and even north of Rome.

Thence they were dislodged by Umbrian and Sabine tribes, and finally crossed into Sicily.

Their social organization appears to have been tribal, their economy, agricultural.

According to Diodorus Siculus, after a series of conflicts with the Sicani, the river Salso was declared the boundary between their respective territories.