Segesta
[ si-jes-tuh; Italian se-jes-tah ]
noun
Also Segeste. an ancient Greek and Carthaginian city in NW Sicily: near present-day Alcamo.
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How to use Segesta in a sentence
For us we put up at the "Temple of Segeste," attracted rather by its name than by any promise or decoy it offers.
We shall never, never forget the impressions made upon us on first getting sight of Segeste!
He has seen the lonely temple of Segeste, standing among the mountains like a widowed thing, mourning in silence the departed.
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