Selinus

Heading back toward Italy in the summer of 117 he fell seriously ill off the coast of southern Turkey, was forced to draw into harbor at Selinus on the southwest coast of Sicily, and died there on 8 August at the approximate age of sixty-four.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

The two Athenian generals who remained in Sicily now divided the fleet between them by lot, and sailed towards Selinus and Egesta; they wanted to know whether the Egestaeans would give them the promised money, and also to ascertain the condition of the

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Selinus and Syracuse, the cities against which our expedition is particularly directed.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Pamillus and founded Selinus; he had come from Megara, their own mother state, to take part in the new colony.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

And so, taking with him about seven hundred of his own sailors and marines for whom he had obtained arms, about a thousand Himeraean infantry, heavy and light-armed included, and a hundred Himeraean horsemen, some light-armed troops and cavalry from Selinus, a few more from Gela, and of the Sicels about a thousand in all, Gylippus marched towards Syracuse.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Athenian assembly by the Egestaeans and their partisans; at length the people passed a vote that they would at all events send envoys to ascertain on the spot whether the Egestaeans really had the money which they professed to have in their treasury and in their temples, and to report on the state of the war with Selinus.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Heracles is represented on one of the earlier metopes from Selinus.

Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

They should send envoys to every city of Sicily, with the exception of Selinus and Syracuse; they should also negotiate with the

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

Sicily, the passage taking two days and a night only; thence they crossed and came to Selinus.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

The Egestaeans had gone to war with the neighbouring city of Selinus about certain questions of marriage and about a disputed piece of land.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007