Arae Sestianae
Σηστίου Βωμοί ὰ́κρον
Arae Sestianae (Σηστίου Βωμοί ὰ́κρον), three altars erected in honour of Augustus on a promontory near the NW. extremity of Spain. Pliny (4.20. s. 34) and Ptolemy (2.6.3) place the headland a little N. of Nerium Pr. (C. Finisterre), which would correspond to C. Villano; Mela (3.1.9) carries it further eastward; the former is the more probable position.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.