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Nestor went to Italy, where he founded Metapontum, Pisa, and Heracleia: Philoctetes also went to Italy, founded Petilia and Crimisa, and sent settlers to Egesta in Sicily.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John

The citizens of Egesta, in Sicily, erected a monument to a certain Philip, who was not their fellow-citizen, but of Croton, for his distinguished beauty; and the people made offerings at it.

From The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry by Pater, Walter

On their return to Athens these men reported that Egesta was possessed of fabulous riches.

From Stories from Thucydides by Havell, H. L. (Herbert Lord)

The Elymians in Sicily also were composed of Trojans and Greeks separately driven to the spot, who, forgetting their previous differences, united in the joint settlements of Eryx and Egesta.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John

Meanwhile Nicias sailed straight from Hyccara along the coast and went to Egesta and, after transacting his other business and receiving thirty talents, rejoined the forces.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Crawley, Richard