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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.

1

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.

See

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

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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.

19.

SEPYRA, a village at the foot of mount

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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,

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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. ↑

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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.

1, 15.

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.;

et 14, 51.

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.

3,

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,

7, 3.

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,

529.

SION, one of the four hills on which
3 H Jerufalem

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