Selinus
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History of the Peloponnesian War
A Sicilian city in dispute with Segesta, whose subjugation is central to Nicias's and Alcibiades's proposed strategies.
The opinion of Nicias was, that they should sail to Selinus with all their forces, that being the object for which they had, most of all, been sent:
) When, then, they had brought over the cities, and knew with whose assistance they would carry on the war, then they should attack Syracuse and Selinus, if the latter did not come to terms with Segesta, and the former permit them to settle the Leontines.
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;
Anabasis
Name of rivers at Scillus and Ephesus associated with Artemis' sanctuary.
and at Ephesus likewise a Selinus river flows past the temple of Artemis.
Hellenica
A Greek city in Sicily captured by the Carthaginians, whose destroyed citizens are later granted Ephesian citizenship.
and to the Selinuntines, after Selinus had been destroyed, they gave the rights of Ephesian citizenship as well.
So the year ended, being the year in which the Carthaginians, under the leadership of Hannibal, made an expedition against Sicily, with an army of one hundred thousand men, and in the course of three months captured two Greek cities, Selinus and Himera.