Temples, tombs, and monuments of ancient Greece and Rome. A description and a history of some of the most remarkable memorials of classical architecture (1871)
Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891 · London, New York [etc.] T. Nelson and sons · leaf 232
um to thedeserters and fugitives w^ho swelled his train. In free states, however, there is an extraordinary vitality.Segeste rose from her ruins, resumed her ancient name,and increased in prosperity and power. We read of it in B.C. 276 as contributing a detachment RELIEF OF SEGESTE. 229 to the army… … Temple at Segeste. thaginian dependency until the First Punic War, when itrose against its foreign garrison, and declared for the alli-ance of Rome. Beleaguered by a Carthaginian army, itmaintained a protracted resistance, and was finally re- 230 A ROMANTIC VISTA. lieved by the arrival of a Roman…
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