Acesta

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Ăcesta, ae, also Acestē, es, f., = Ἄκεστα and Ἀκέστη,

I a town in the N. W. part of Sicily , near the coast; earlier Egesta, later Segesta, near the modern Alcamo , Verg. A. 5, 718; 9, 218; cf. Serv. ad 1, 550, and Heyne Excurs. I. ad Aen. V.—

II Deriv.

A Ăcestenses , ium, m., the inhabitants of A. , Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 36, § 83. —

B Ăcestaei , the same , Plin. 3, 8, 14, § 91.

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