Segesta
place · 2 works · 4 mentions · 5 anchored passages
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
A Sicilian city allied with Athens, whose promised funding for the expedition proves illusory.
and at the same time were waiting for the arrival from Segesta of the ships which had been sent on in advance;
For the Segestans had recourse to the following contrivance, at the time when the first envoys of the Athenians came to them to see the state of their funds.
After these things, the remaining generals of the Athenians in Sicily, having made two divisions of the army, and each taken by lot one of them, sailed with the whole force for Selinus and Segesta;
On the Peace with Sparta
The Sicilian ally Athens chose over Syracuse, leading to the disastrous Sicilian expedition.
and she pointed out the advantages of an alliance with herself, if only we would consent to it, over those of the existing alliance with Segesta and Catana.