Crossword-Solution: GIRGENTI 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

CLXVI With a fresh wind, that in their favour blows, They loose their hawser at the close of day: In heaven above the silent goddess shows Her shining horn, to guide them on their way; And on the following morn before them rose The pleasant shores that round Girgenti lay.

With many nobles, who from neighbouring town, At his invital, to Girgenti went, -- The shore with torches blazing up and down, And sounding wide with cries and loud lament, -- Thither returned where late, of life bereft, His friends, beloved in life and death, was left.

Finding it hopeless longer to look for succour or common humanity from the deceitful and infatuated court of Sicily, which persisted in prohibiting by sanguinary edicts the exportation of supplies, at his own risk, he sent his first lieutenant to the port of Girgenti, with orders to seize and bring with him to Malta the ships which were there lying laden with corn; of the numbers of which he had received accurate information.

THE GREAT MUD VOLCANO OF SICILY One of the best known mud-volcanoes is at Macaluba, near Girgenti, in Sicily.

They talked as though they worked only for themselves; as though art, to the Western people, was a stage decoration; a diamond shirt-stud; a paper collar; but possibly the architects of Paestum and Girgenti had talked in the same way, and the Greek had said the same thing of Semitic Carthage two thousand years ago.