Sestos
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Sesti Proper-name noun: feminine nominative plural, Proper-name noun: feminine genitive singular, Proper-name noun: feminine vocative plural of Sestos
Sesti Proper-name adjective: neuter genitive singular, Proper-name adjective: masculine nominative plural, Proper-name adjective: masculine genitive singular, Proper-name adjective: masculine vocative plural of Sestus
Sesti Proper-name noun: masculine vocative singular, Proper-name noun: masculine genitive singular of Sestius
Sesti Verb: perfect active indicative 2nd singular of sero
- a city in Thrace, on the Hellespont, opposite Abydos, the residence of Hero: Leandri amore pernobilis, Mel. 2, 2, 7; Plin. 4, 11, 18, § 49; Liv. 32, 33; 37, 9; Ov. H. 18, 127; Luc. 2, 674; 6, 55.—Hence,
- A Sēstĭăcus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sestos, Sestian: sinus, i.e. the Hellespont, Stat. S. 1, 3, 27: pelagus, Aus. Idyll. 10, 287.—
- B Sēstus, a, um, adj., of Sestos, Sestian: puella, i.e. Hero, Ov. H. 17 (18), 2 dub. (the first two lines are probably spurious).—
- C Sē-stĭăs, ădis, f., the Sestian, i.e. Hero, Stat. Th. 6, 547; Sid. Carm. 11, 71.
City of the Thracian Chersonese on the Hellespont shore, opposite (due N of) Abydos and having the advantage over that harbor in wind and current. Mentioned in Homer's Trojan catalogue (Il. 2.836). It was claimed by Athens against Persia and Sparta, often successfully, from ca. 550 B.C. to the mid 4th c., for the protection of her grain shipments. The city was relatively unimportant in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, but later Justinian refortified it (the modern Choiridion castle). The ancient site apparently lay on a plateau ca. 100 m above sea level on the S side of a good bay. (Ak Baş limani). Sherds, coins, and some inscriptions have been found.
BIBLIOGRAPHYA. Hauvette-Besnault, BCH 4 (1880) 515ff; H. G. Lolling, AthMitt 6 (1881) 209; W. Leaf, Strabo on the Troad (1923) 1 17-33MI; S. Casson, Macedonia (1926) 216f I.
T. S. MACKAY