Helice
Helice an Etang or sea lake, mentioned by Avienus (Or. Marit. 5.588) at the outlet of the Attagus, which is the Atax (Aude), the river of Narbonne. D'Anville assumes the Helice to be the Etang de Vendres. The name Helice suggested to Walckenaer that this may show where the Helisyci of Herodotus (7.165) came from, who are mentioned with Ligyes, and Sardonii and Cyrnii. Hecataeus, also (Steph. B. sub voce Ἐλίσυκοι), mentions the Elisyci or Helisyci (for the aspirate may be doubtful) as a Ligurian tribe. As there is no place for these Helisyci within the limits of Italy, we may with some probability fix them on the Gallic shore of the Mediterranean. Niebuhr's notion that they were Volsci is very absurd.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.