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Leptis Magna
[ lep-tis mag-nuh ]
- an ancient Phoenician and Carthaginian, later Roman, city in N Africa, in present-day Libya E of Tripoli.
Example Sentences
Libya was an important Roman province, home to the great port cities of Sabratha and Leptis Magna whose imposing stone temples and theatres still stand on the Mediterranean shore.
I mean just to leave the conversation and go to Leptis Magna.
I mean, again, it’s, like, I think the Leptis Magna moment is also like Forrest giving himself a way to say something—getting away from the most painful matter with something that he finds interesting to think about, so that he can get back to that transfixed Greyhound and himself.
Others include the ruins of the Roman city of Leptis Magna, and Sabratha, both in western Libya.
The lesser-known Roman site of Leptis Magna — dubbed the Rome of Africa — has been looted and neglected, and is threatened by rising seas.
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