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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Segesta was founded by a people who wanted protection, and feared the sea.
In the Land of Temples | Joseph Pennell
Probably it was won from Segesta, that most hated Elymian neighbor.
Vacation days in Greece | Rufus B. Richardson
They were repulsed from all of them except Segesta, which they took without resistance.
Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) | Cassius Dio
For Selinunto has to be seen, and Segesta, famous both for the grandeur and interest of their Greek remains.
The Mediterranean | T. G. (Thomas Gray) Bonney, E. A. R. Ball, H. D. Traill, Grant Allen, and Arthur Griffiths
No words can do justice to the lonely grandeur of the Temple of Segesta.
The Mediterranean | T. G. (Thomas Gray) Bonney, E. A. R. Ball, H. D. Traill, Grant Allen, and Arthur Griffiths

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