Selinunte
Proper noun
Meaning
Selinunte
An Ancient Greek city on the south-western coast of Sicily.
Examples
According to sources, 16,000 of the citizens of Selinunte were killed, 5,000 were taken prisoner, and 2,600 under the command of Empedion escaped to Acragas.
Diodorus Siculus xi. 68 Thucydides speaks of Selinunte just before the Athenian expedition in 416 BCE as a powerful and wealthy city, possessing great resources for war both by land and sea, and having large stores of wealth accumulated in its temples.
At its peak before 409 BC the city may have contained up to 30,000 people, excluding slaves. citation History Marinella di Selinunte and Temple E as seen from the acropolis of Selinunte.
The army landed at Lilybaeum, and directly marched from there to Selinunte.
Diodorus Siculus xiii. 55. The walls of Selinunte enclosed an area of approximately convert.
Herodotus v. 46. It is clear, therefore, that Selinunte had already achieved great power and prosperity; but very little information survives about its history.