According to one account, the giant cannibal race of the
Laistrygonians was said to have borne from Laestrygon in the isle of
Ortygia,
Italy. : [The
Sons of Boreas pursued the
Harpies all the way to Italy:] — and about the steep Fawn mountain and rugged
Etna to the isle Ortygia and the people sprung from Laestrygon who was the son of wide-reigning Poseidon. == Note ==