Leptis Magna

American  

[lep-tis mag-nuh] / ˈlɛp tɪs ˈmæg nə /

1. an ancient Phoenician and Carthaginian, later Roman, city in N Africa, in present-day Libya E of Tripoli.

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Example Sentences

Severus was born in 145 at Leptis Magna in modern Libya; he never fully lost his North African accent.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Libya was an important Roman province, home to the great port cities of Sabratha and Leptis Magna whose imposing stone temples and theatres still stand on the Mediterranean shore.

From Reuters • Aug. 2, 2023

I mean just to leave the conversation and go to Leptis Magna.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 20, 2019

Woolley’s project has its origins in January 1943, when archaeologists Mortimer Wheeler and John Ward-Perkins visited archaeological sites like Leptis Magna in North Africa.

From Salon • Dec. 11, 2016

On the fourth day after his departure, he reached Lebida, on the sea coast, the Leptis Magna of the Romans.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson by Stevenson, William