Sestinum
SESTI´NUM (Eth. Sestinas: Sestino), a town in the interior of Umbria, mentioned only by Pliny, who enumerates the Sestinates among the towns of that region (Plin. Nat. 3.14. s. 19; Gruter, Inscr. p. 108. 7), but which still retains its ancient name. It is situated among the Apennines, at the source of the river Foglia (Pisaurus). [E.H.B]
Now Sestino; a town in Umbria on the Apennines, near the sources of the Pisaurus.
A site near the headwaters of the river Pisaurus. It is mentioned only by Pliny (HN 3.114), but inscriptions show that it belonged to the tribus Clustumina, and the site still preserves its ancient name. Its graves go back to the 6th c. B.C., and inscriptions attest a flourishing life through the 4th c. of our era. There is a small Antiquarium Sestinate adjacent to the Pieve.
BIBLIOGRAPHYA. Minto, Sestinum, Istituto di Studi Romani (1940) MI; EAA 7 (1966) 220-21 (A. Talocchini).
L. RICHARDSON, JR.