Sestos

American  

[ses-tos] / ˈsɛs tɒs /

noun

1. an ancient Thracian town on the Hellespont opposite Abydos: Xerxes crossed the Hellespont here when he began his invasion of Greece.

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Sestos British  

/ ˈsɛstɒs /

noun

1. a ruined town in NW Turkey, at the narrowest point of the Dardanelles: N terminus of the bridge of boats built by Xerxes in 481 _bc for the crossing of his armies of invasion

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Example Sentences

It holds its anchors with untiring cables, Like those with which proud Xerxes bound the strait Which between Sestos and Abydos foams.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

In the mean time Parmenio had crossed safely, with the main body of the army, from Sestos to Abydos.

From Alexander the Great Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob

That struggle was not terminated by the battle of Mycale and the capture of Sestos in 479 B.C.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

But the narrowest part of the channel is found to the northward of the old Turkish castles between the cities of Sestos and Abydos.

From Gibbon by Morison, James Cotter

On Hellespont, guilty of true-love's blood, In view and opposite two cities stood, Sea-borderers, disjoined by Neptune's might; The one Abydos, the other Sestos hight.

From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher