Theophraftus, being long concealed be- low ground, were damaged by the wet and worms, Strab. 10, 609. whence Metrodorus Scepfius, a native of this place, of a remarkable memory, Plin. 7, 27. Cic. Tufc. 1, 24. Or. 1, 11. et 2, 83.
SCILLUS, a small town of Elis, where
Xenophon wrote his history of Greece, *468.
SCHERIA, a name of Corcyra, Plin. 4, 12.
SCIATHOS, an island in the Ægean sea, north of Eubea, Liv. 31, 45. Herodot, 7, 179. Val. Flac. 2, 8. SCIONE, a town of Macedonia, on the Thermaic gulf, Plin. 4, 10. SCIRESSA, a mountain of Arcadia, Plin. 4, 5.
SCIRONIA faxa, v. Scironides petræ,
rock between Megara and Corinth; named from a robber SCIRON, who in- fested that place, and was flain by The- feus, 302. A difagreeable north-west wind, blowing from thence, was called at Athens SCIRON, Senec. Nat. Q. 5, 17. Plin. 2, 47.
SCODRA, SCUTARI or Ifcodar, a town
of Illyricum, the refidence of king Gen- tius, Liv. 43, 20.; 44, 31. Inh. Sco- DRENSES, ib. 45, 26.
SCISSIS, a town of Spain, Liv. 21, 60.
SCORDISCI, a people of Mæfia or Pan- nonia, Liv. 41, 19.
SCOTI, the SCOTS, who gave name to Scotland, concerning whole origin au- thors are not agreed, 491. They are mentioned by Claudian, as a different nation from the Picts, De tertio Confulatu Honorii, verf. 54. and reprefented by Jerome as cannibals, who fed on human Aeth, Contra Jovin. l.b. 2. So Chry- foftome, in Sermon. de Pentecof-adj. SCOTICUS, Claudian de Laud. Stil. 2, 254. It is remarkable that the name of Scots is unknown in the Erfe lan- guage. If an unlettered Highlander be asked of what country he is, he replies that he is an Albanich or Gael. SCOTUSSA, a town of Macedonia, near the Strymon; Inh. Scorufæi, Plin. 4, 10.-Alfo a town of Theffaly, Liv. 28, 5, & 7.; 36, 14. Scotuffæus ager, Liv. 33, 5.
SCULTENNA, PANARO, a river of Gallia Cifpadana running into the Po at Padinum, Plin. 3a 16. Liv. 41, 12, & 18.
SCYLACEUM v. Scylacium, SQUIL LACE, a town of the Bruttii, on the Sinus Scylacius, 178. Scylacea littora, Ovid. Met. 15, 701. SCYLLÆUM, SKILLEO, a town and prom. of the Bruttii, near the north end of the Fretum Siculum, where is a dan- gerous rock, anciently supposed to be the refidence of the fabulous monfter SCYLLA, 174.Also a prom. of Ar- golis, 287.
SCYROS, SYRA, an island in the Egoan fea, to the eaft from the middle of Eu- bæa, where Achilles was educated, 336. hence Scyria membra, the limbs of Achilles, Ovid. Ep. 8, 112. Scyria pu- bes, the forces of Pyrrhus, Virg. Æn. 2, 477. Scyriades, the women of Scyros, Stat. Achil. 2, 147.
SCYTHIA vel Sarmatia, the name given by the ancients to that part of Europe and Afia, on the north, with which they were unacquainted; fuppofed to be higher than the fouth, Virg. G. 1, 240.; Inh. SCYTHE; fing. Scytha v. -es; Campefires, living in plains, or by pafturage, Horat. Od. 3, 24, 9. Profugi vel errantes, wandering without any fixed habitation, ib. 1, 35, 9. et 4, 14, 42. Lucan. 3, 267. reprefented as very just, Justin, 2. pr. But they were not all of the fame character, Strab. 7, 202. Hence Scytha, for a cruel or in- h fpitable perfon, Lucan. 10,455.-Scy- thici fidera poli, the stars round the north pole, Martial. 6, 58, 2. Scythicus pon- tus, the Euxine fea, Lucan. 2, 580. vel Scythica unda, ib. 420. which laft phrafe is alfo put for the Palus Maitis, ib. 5, 441. Scythicus lfter, the Danube, 2, 50. Tanais, 9, 414. Libertas Scythi cam bonum, 7, 435. Scythici plauftri pa tiens palus, the palus Mæotis, when fro- zen, 2, 641, Scythica ara, the altar of Diana, in the Cherfonefus Taurica, where ftrangers were facrificed to that godders, ib. 7, 777. Scythide, -um, Scythian women, Ovid. Met. 15, 360. Flacc. 5. -Datames Scythia matre natus, Nep. 14, 1.-dcythæ is fometimes put for the Parthians, who were sprung from the Scythians. So Scythica ora, Sagitta, &c. for Parthica, Lucas. 2, 553.; 8. 353, 432.; 9, 238, & 827. Horace includes, under the name of Scythians, all the nations to the north-east of the Hadriatic, Od. 2, 11, 1. Jam Scythe laxo meditantur arcu cedere campi, think of fubmitting to Augustus, ib. 3, 8, 23. SCYTHO
SCYTHOTAURI, a people of Cherfonefus Taurica, Plin. 4, 12. who immolated ftrangers, Solin. 20.
SCYTHOPOLIS, olim Nyfa, a city of De- capolis, in Syria, Plin. 5, 18. SEBASTE, i. e. AUGUSTA, a name given to several cities in honour of Au- guftus. See Samaria. SEBETHUS V. Sebethos, SEBETO, a river running patt Naples, 153. Lympha Se- bethis, -idis, Col. 10, 134. SEBINUS v. Sevinus, the lake of Isɛo, which tranfmits the river Ollius into the Po, Plin. 3, 19.
SEDUNI, a people of Gaul on the Rhone; Sedunorum Civitas, SION, in the Valais, Cæf. G. 3, 1.
SEDUSII, a people of Germany, Caf. 1, 51.
SEGALAUNI, the people of Valenti- nois, in Dauphinè. Plin. 3, 4. SEDETANI, a people of Spain, Liv. 34, 20. Sedetanus ager, ib. 38, 24. Sede- tana cohers, Sil. 3, 372. SEGETASTICA, a town of Spain, Liv. 34, 17.
SEGESTA, a town of Sicily. Egefta. SEGNI, a people of Gallia Belgica, now Limburg, Cæf. G. 6, 31. SEGOVIA v. Segobia, SEGOVIA, a city of Old Caftile, in Spain, 483. SEGOBRIGA, SEGORBE, the capital of Celtiberia; Inh Segobrigenfes, Plin. 3, 3. SEGON TIUM, CARNARVON, in North
Wales; Inh. Segontiaci, Cæf. G. 5, 21. SEGUSIANI, a people of Gaul, in Lio- nois, Caf. G. 1, 10. Plin. 4, 18. Segufianorum Forum, FEURS, on the
Loire. SEGUSIÓ, SUSA, a town of Piedmont,
on the river Durias er Doria, Plin 3, 17 f. 21.
SEGUSTERO, SISTERON, a town of Provence, on the Durance. SELASIA v. Sellafia, a town of Laconica, 285. Liv. 34, 28.
SELEUCIA, BAGDAD, a city at the con- fluence of the Tigris and Euphrātes. — Another about five miles north of the mouth of the Orontes, in Syria, which gave the name of SELEUCIS to that part of the country, 594. called Seleurea Via Pieria, because it stood at the foot of mount Pierius, Cic. Att. 5, 20. Plin. 5, 22. now SUVEDIA; Inh. Seleucenfes.
Alfo the royal refidence of the Par- thians, Cic. Fam. 8, 14.-Allo the -name of feveral other places.
SELEUCIS, a diftrict of Syria, called TETRAPOLIS, from four cities; bailt by Seleucus, termed the Sifter cities; Anticchia, named from his father; Se- leucia, from himself; Apamià, from his wife; and Laodicea, after his mother, Strab. 16, 749.
SELGA, a town of Pifidia, Liu. 35, 13. Inh. Selgenfes.
SELINUS, -untis, a city of Sicily, not far from Lilybæum; Inh. Selinuntii, 268. Near Selinus were THERMÆ Selinun tia, now SCIACCA, ib.-Also a town of Cilicia, Liv. 33, 20. where Trajan died; whence it was called Trajano- polis, Xiphilin.Alfo the name of two fmall rivers which encompaffed the tem- ple of Diana near Ephefus, Plin. 5, 29.
Another in Cilicia, Strab. 14, 669. -Selinufius lacus, a lake at the mouth of the river Cayıter, Strab. 14, 642. SELLETÆ, a people of Thrace near mount Hæus, Liv. 38, 40.
SELLI vel Sellæ, a people of Epire, near Dodona, Strab. 7, 328. of great anti- quity; hence called veteres, Lucan. 3, 180. SELYMBRIA, SELIVRIA, a city of Thrace, on the Propontis, Liv. 33, 39. SEMNONES, a people of Germany, be- tween the Elbe and the Oder, 567. SEMURIUM, a plain near Rome, Cic. Phil. 6, 6; Macrob. Sat. 1, 10. SENOGALLIA v. Sena Gallica, SENO- GAGLIA, a town of Umbria, 136. Liv. 27, 46. near the river SENNA, Lucan. 2, 407. Sendnum de nomine Sena, Sil. 8, 455. Relictum Gallorum a populis jervat per Secula nomen, Sil. 15, 555. Senenfis populus, ib. 38. Senegallienfis colonia, Frontin. de colon.
SENIA, SEGNA, a town of Liburnia, Plin. 3, 21 f. 25.
SENONES, Senonum, a people of Gaul, living along the Seine, next above the Parifii, Caj. G. B. 7, 11. &c, a colony of whom invaded Italy, took and burned Rome, Liv. 5, 35, &c. SENTINUM, SENTINA, a town of Um- bria; whence Sentinas ager, Liv. 10, 27, & 30. Inh. Sentinātes, -ium. SENUS. See Scena. SEPIAS, Cape de St. GEORGE, a cape in Magnelia of Theffaly, 321. SEPLASIA, a place at Capua, where oint- ments were fold, Cic. Pif. 7 & Ilej Agr. 2, 34. SEPPHORIS, afterwards Dixafaria, a town of Galilee, SEPTEM
SEPTEM AQUA, a place in the territory of Reate, a part of the lakes, or the whole, Cic. Att. 4, 15. -SEPTEM FRATRES, Gebel-Moufa, feven moun- tains in Mauritania, fo named from their number and resemblance, Strab. 17.; Mel. 5, 1-SEPTEM MARIA, the feven mouths of the Po, fo called by the natives. See PADUS. SEPTEMPĚDA, St. SEVERINO, a town of Picenum.
SEPTIZONIUM, a particular kind of build- ing at Rome, Suet. Tit. 2. more than one, Marcellin. 15, 7.; Spartian. Sever.
SEPYRA, a village at the foot of mount
Amanus, in Cilicia, Cić. Fam. 15, 4. SEQUANA, the Seine, a noble river of France, Caf. 1, I.- -SEQUANI, the people of Franche compte, between the Soâne, mount Vofgue, and mount Jura, Caf. B. G. 1, 1, 8, & 31.; 4, 10.; Tacit. Ann. 3, 45. Sequăna gens, Lucan. 1, 425. Sequanum genus vitium, Plin. 14, 1. Sequanica pinguis textricis alumna, fc. Endrimis, a thick kind of garment, wrought by a woman of the Sequani, Martial. 4, 19, 1. SERES, fing. Ser, a people of Afia, on the confines of India and Scythia, now CATHAY, or the north part of China, 642. Virg. G. 2, 121.; Plin. 6, 17 f. 20.; Lucan. 1, 19. termed colorati, from their dufky colour, Ovid. Amor. 3, 14, 6. SZRICA, fc. regio, their country; hence SERICA VESTES, gar- ments woven by the Seres, i. e. filk, concerning the manner of fabricating which the ancients were ignorant, Plin. 21, 3.; Ifidor. 19, 27. Virgil speaks of the Seres, as getting their materials for making cloth, (vellera, Reeces,) from the leaves of trees, like cotton, G.
2, 121. Serici pulvilli, Horat. Eped. 8, 15. Pallia ferica, Stat. Silv. 3, 4, 89. Sericatus, dreffed in filk, Suet. Cal. 52-Sagittæ Serica, i. e. Scythian or Parthian arrows, Horat. Od. 1, 29, 9. Lucan mentions Seres in Ethiopia,
the Po below Cafal, Plin. 3, 16. SESTOS v. -us, ZEMINIC, a town of Thrace, on the Hellefpont, oppofite to Abydos, 349. Liv. 32, 33; 37, 9. Xerxes pontibus admovit Sefton Abydo, joined them by a bridge, Lucan. 2, 674. the native place of Hero, the mistress of Leander; whence the is called Seftias, -adis, Stat. Theb. 6, 547. Seftiacum pelagus, Aufon. in Mofell. 287. SETIA, SEZZA, a town of the Volfci, in Latium, Liv. 6, 30.; 32, 26. fituate upon the declivity of a hill, (Pendula,) above the Pontine marshes and plains, Martial. 10, 74, 10. et 13, 112. Inh. SETINI, ib. 8, 1. Setinus ager, Cic. Rull. 2, 25. very fertile in corn and wine, (Setinum, fc. vinum,) Martial. 6, 86, 1.; et 10, 74, 11. which Auguftus is faid to have preferred to all other wines, Plin. 14, 6. hence Setia is faid to be Ipfius menfis fepofta Lyai, Sil. 8, 378. The wine of Setia is alfo cele brated by Juvenal, 5, 34. ; et 10, 27. SEVERUS, a mountain of the Sabines, Virg. n. 7, 713:
SEVINUS. See Sebinus.
SEVO mons, FIELL or Dofre, a range of mountains between Norway and Sweden, Plin. 4, 13. ↑
SEXTIÆ AQUÆ, Aix, a city of Pro- vence, fo named from its founder Sex- tius, and from the number of its cold and hot springs, Liv. Epit. 61.; Vell.
SIBARIS v. Sybaris, an ancient city of
Lucania, on the Tarentine gulf, 170. Inh. SIBARĪTE, fing. -īta v. -tes, re- ̄ markable for their luxury and effemi- nacy, Quintilian. 3, 7, 24. hence Siba- ritici libelli, obfcene, Martial. 12, 97, 2. the fame with Sibaritis, -idis, Ovid. Trift. 2, 417.-Sibaritanus exercitus, the army of Sibaris, Plin. 8, 42. SICAMBRI v. Sugambri, a warlike peo- ple of Germany, inhabiting the country on the fouth fide of the Lippè, against whom Cæfar croffed the Rhine, Caf. G. 4, 18. They were conquered by Au- guftus, and brought over to the other fide of the Rhine, Tacit. Ann. 12, 39 i Suet. Aug. 21.; Horat. Od. 4, 2, 36.;
SICAMBRIA, GUELDERLAND, the country of the Sicambri, Claudian, in Eutrop, 1, 383.
SICANI, a people originally from Spain, who feized on part of Italy, and, being driven from thence, took poffeffion of Sicily, which was from them called SI-
CANIA, Serv. ad Virg. Æn. 8, 328.; Thucydid. 6, 2, & 3. and from their leader Siculus, SICILIA, Dionyf. 1. Some of the Sicani feem to have remained in Italy, Virg. Æn. 7, 795- Pliny mentions them among the ancient inhabitants of Latium, 3, 5. hence king Latinus mentions a tract of country contiguous to the Tiber, extending westwards from Laurentum to the ter- ritories of the Sicani, Virg. Æn. 11, 316.-Virgil always fhortens the first fyllable, and lengthens the laft in Sĭ- căni, n. 5, 23. &c. Fluctus Sicani, the Sicilian waves, Ecl. 10, 4. So Horat. Epod. 17, 32.; Propert. 1, 16, 29. But Silius Italicus has gens Sicana, 14, 258. All the poets make Sicanius, Virg. Æn. 3. 692.; Ovid. Met. 15, 279.; Lucan. 3, 59, & 177.; 6, 66. SICCA, a town of Numidia; Inh. Sic-
CENSES, Salluft Jug. 56.; Plin. 5, 3. SICILIA, SICILY, the largest island in the Mediterranean, 256.; Inh. Sicu- LI, acuti, Cic. Verr. 3, 8. dicaces, ib. 4, 43 faceti, Orat. 2, 54. frugi et fo- brii, Verr. 3, 27. under the patronage of Cicero, Att. 14, 12. made Roman citizens by Antony, ib. their rights be- fore that, Verr. 2, 13.
Siculi montes, Virg. Ecl. 2, 21. Tyranni, Horat. Ep. 1, 2, 58. Siculæ dapes, i e. delicata, from the Sicilians paying particular at- tention to cookery, Id. Od. 3, 1, 18.
-Sicelides mula, Virg. Ecl. 4, 1. -Sicilienfe fretum, vulgo Siculum, the Straits of Meffina, Cic. Nat. D. 3, 10. Siculum mare Pœno purpureum fanguine, the fea round Sicily, tinged with Car- thaginian blood, Horat. Od. 2, 12, 2. by the Romans, first under Duilius, P. 237. and then under Lutatius Catulus, ib. Verris Sicilienfis prætura, which Verres bore in Sicily, Verr. 2, 6. Sci- lienfe edicium, the edict which Verres published as Prætor in Sicily, Verr. 1, 43. Quafura mea Sicilienfis, Att. 13, 38. Sicilienfis annus the year which Ci- cero ípent in Sicily as Quæftor, Brut. 92. Sicilienfis pecunia, money brought from Sicily to bribe the judges of Verres, Verr. 1,8.. Siciliffo-are, to fpeak the Sicilian language, Plaut. Men. Prol. 12. SICORIS the SEGRE, a river of Cata- Jonia in Spain, Plin. 3, 3.; Lucan. 4, 14, & 130. SICYON, BASYLICO, an ancient city'
of Achaia Propria, near the river Asopus, abounding in olives; hence Refined OLIVIPERA, Ovid, in Ibin,
317.; Stat. Theb. 4, 50. and Sicyoniz bacca, an olive, Virg. G. 2, 519. the native place or ARATUS, the cele brated general of the Achæan league, 474. where the general affembly of that confederacy uled frequently to be holden, Liv. 12, 19.—Sicyonius agɛr, ib. 33, 15.-Siyonii calcei, a particular kind of fhoes, the wearing of which was thought effeminate in men, Ci. Orat. 1, 54. vel Sicyonia, fe. calces- menta, Lucret. 4, 1118. Pliny calls Sicyon, Officinarum omnium metalicrum patria, the country of all excellent workmen in all metais, because Dipas and Scyllis, the firft diftinguished fatua. ries, fettled there, 36, 4.
SIDA, a city of Pamphylia, Cic. Fam. 3, 6.; Liv. 37, 23.; Inh. Sidētæ, Liv. 35, 48. fing. Sidetes. SIDICINI, the inhabitants of the country round Tanum Sidicinum, in the north of Campania, on the left bank of the Liris, Liv. 7, 29.; 8, 1. ; 22, 57-i Cic. Phil. 2, 41. extending to the fea, Virg. Æn. 7, 727- Sidicinus miles, Sil. 8, 513. Sidicinus ager, Liv. 10, 14. ; 26, 9.
SIDON, SEIDE, or Zaide, a city of Phoenicia, Mel. 1, 12.; Inh. SIDONII, Justin. 18, 3. famous for their inge- nious manufactures (even in the time of Homer, I. 5. 289.; Strab. 1, 41.), particularly of glass, Plin. 5, 19. and purple, Lucan. 2, 217.; adj. SIDONIUS, with do fometimes long, as Virg. Æn. 1, 446, & 613.; 9, 266.; 11, 74-; Ovid. Met. 3, 120.; Sil. 5, 474; 6, 85, & 343. (fo Sidona, the accuf. of Sidon, Virg. Æn. 1, 619. and Sidōne, abl. Ovid. Met. 4, 572.) but oftener hort, Virg En. 1, 678.; 4, 75, 137, 545, & 683.; 5, 571, &c.; Ovid. Diet. 4, 543 ; Port. 1, 3, 77.5 Triệu 4, 2, 27.; Sil. 6, 109. So SIDONIS,
dis, i. e. Dido, born at Sidon, Ovid. Met. 14, 80. Anna, the fifter of Dido, Sil. 8, 70. or Europa, Ovid Faft. 5, 610, & 618. or the country of Sidon, Met. 2, 840. but we alfo find Sidonis; as, Collocat hanc firatis concha Sidonide tintis, on couches covered with cloth dipt in purple dye, extracted from a Sidonian fhell-fish, ib. 10, 267. (as the Greeks faid either Σιδων, «ώτος, τη 2180106). But do in Sidoniis, Sidonias, and Sidonis, must always be short in an hexameter verfe and long in Sidonia and Sidonius, when followed by a word beginning with a vowel. So Sidinida,
Sil. 8. 194. from Sidonis, ib. 200. and Sidoia, ib. 213. Ductor Sido- nius, Hannibal, Sil. 12, 627. et 13, 144. vel Rector, ib. 514. SIENA Julia, SIENNA, a city of Etru- ria, 136.; Inh. Senenfes v. Senienfes, Cic. Brut. 18 Senienfis colonia, Tacit. Hift. 4, 45.
SIGA, NED-ROMA, a town of Mauri- tania, the refidence of King Syphax, over against Malaga in Spain; Sigenfis portus, the harbour.
SIGEUM, Cape INEIHISARI, a town, port, and promontory of Troas, 587. fixty ftadia along the shore to the south of the promontory Rhæteum, Strab. 13, 595. hence Sigea freta, Virg. An. 2, 312. littora, Ovid. Faft. 4, 279. et Sigeia, Id. Met. 13, 3- SIGNIA, SEGNI, a town of the Vol. fci in Latium, Liv. 1, 55.; 2, 21.; celebrated for its wine, Sil. 8, 380. Inb. Signini, ib. 27, 10. Also a mountain above Apamia in Phrygia, Plin. 5, 29.
SUA, a woody mountain of the Bruttii, near Rhegium, Virg Æn. 12, 715.; Cia. Br. 22.
SILARUS, vel Siler, SILARO, a river of Lucania, 172. running through the territory of Salernum, Lucan. 2, 425. its waters are faid to be of a petri- fying nature, Plin. 2, 103.; Sil. 2, 582.
SILICIS MONS, MONTSELICI, a town in the territory of Padua.
SILIS, a river of Venetia in Italy, Plin. 18. SILPIA, a town of Spain, Liv. 28, 12. SILVANECTÆ v. -es, the people of SENLIS, in the Ifle of France. SILVIUM, GORGOLIONE, a town of Apulia; Inh. SILVINI, Plin 3, 11. Alfo a town of lftria, now CADI SELVA.
SILURES, the people of South Wales, in Britain, 491, & 496.
SIMILE lucus, a grove near Rome, Liv. 39, 12.
SIMBRUINA STAGNA, three beautiful
SIMÆTHUS v. Symathus, GIARET- 1 TA, a river of Sicily, to the fouth of Catana, 259. Rapidi-vada flava Smæ- thi, Sil. 14, 231. Smathia flumina," Virg. n. 9, 584. whence Nympha Simathis, dis, the daughter of Sima- thus, Ovid. Met. 13, 750.-Allo a town near this river, Plin. 3, 8. SIMENA, a town of Lycia, near mount Chimæra, Plin. 5, 271. 28.
lakes in Latium, formed by the river Anio, Tacit. Ann. 14, 22. called Sim- brivium, Sil. 8, 371. near the Sim- briani colles, whence Claudius brought water to Rome, ib. 11, 13. Thefe lakes gave name to SUBLAQUEUM, SUBJACO, (q. fub Lacus,) a town of the qui, Plin. 3, 12, near which was a villa of Nero's, Tacit Ann. 14, 22.
SIMÕIS, -entis, m. a fmall tiver of Troas, which iffues from mount Ida, and, mingling with the Scamander or Xan- thus, runs into the fea below Troy, 587; Plin. 5, 30.; Virg. Æn. 1, 100, & 618.; 5, 261. SINÆ, the people, as it is thought, of CAMBOJA, and COCHIN-CHINA, eaft from the SINUS MAGNUS, or the gulf of SIAM; according to Ptolemy, the most remote people of the east,
SINDA infulæ, fuppofed to be the NI- CABAR iflands in the Bay of Bengal. SINDICA, et Sindicus portus, SUND- GIIK, a port-town on the Euxine fea," to the fouth of the Palus Maois; Inh. SINDI, Herodot. 4, 28.
SINGARA, SINJAR, a city in the north of Mefopotamia, fuppofed by fome to have been the ancient SHINAR, mentioned, Genefis, 11, 2. but others place Shinar nearer Babylon. SINGULIS, XENIL, a river of Anda. Jufia, in Spain, which falls into the Guadalquiver, near Grenada. SINCUS, PORTO FIGUERO, a town of Macedonia, on the Singiticus finus, the gulf of MONTE SANTO. SINŌPE, SINAB, the chief city of Paphlagonia, the moft illuftrious of the Pontic cities, 591. Liv. 38, 18. the refidence of the kings of Pontus, Cic. Manil. 8. Inh. Sinopenfes, Liv. 42, 2. Cynicus Sinopeus, in three fyllables, i. e. Diogenes, Ovid. Pont. 1, 3, 66 SINTICE, a district of Macedonia, fouth of the Strymon, 327.
SINUESSA, anciently SINOPE, Lv. 10, 21 a town of Latium, fouth of the Liris, on the confines of Campania, 148. to which it anciently belonged, Plin. 3, 5. Sinueffanus ager, fertile in wine, called Sinueffanum, fc. vinum, ib. Sinuefana aqua, hot baths near Si- nuella, Liv. 22, 13.; Plin. 31, 2.; Tacit. Ann. 12, 66.; H.A. 1, 72, whence Sinueffa is called repens, Sil. 8,
SION, one of the four hills on which 3 H Jerufalem
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