Drepana

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For the moth genus, see Drepana (moth).

Drepana (Latin: Drepanum; Greek: Drepanon, sing., Drepana, pl.), a harbour-town on the west-coast of Sicily, was the site of a crushing Roman defeat by the Carthaginians, in 249 BC.

The town, twenty-five miles north of Lilybaeum, had been fortified by the Carthaginians, who resettled part of the population to Eryx. In 242 it was taken by C. Lutatius Catulus and used as a naval base. It never achieved the status of a civitas in Roman times.

Today, the town is called Trapani.