the kingdom of Tingis, in Mauritania, and from whom were descended
Diodorus, and Juba king of Mauritania. _Strabo_, bk. 3.
=Sophēne=, a country of Armenia, on the borders of Mesopotamia. _Lucan_,
bk. 2, li. 593.
=Sŏphŏcles=, a celebrated tragic poet of Athens, educated in the school
of Æschylus. He distinguished himself not only as a poet, but also as
a statesman. He commanded the Athenian armies, and in several battles
he shared the supreme command with Pericles, and exercised the office
of archon with credit and honour. The first appearance of Sophocles
as a poet reflects great honour on his abilities. The Athenians had
taken the island of Scyros, and to celebrate that memorable event, a
yearly contest for tragedy was instituted. Sophocles on this occasion
obtained the prize over many competitors, in the number of whom
was Æschylus, his friend and his master. This success contributed
to encourage the poet; he wrote for the stage with applause, and
obtained the poetical prize 20 different times. Sophocles was the
rival of Euripides for public praise; they divided the applause
of the populace, and while the former surpassed in the sublime and
majestic, the other was not inferior in the tender and pathetic. The
Athenians were pleased with their contention, and as the theatre was
at that time an object of importance and magnitude, and deemed an
essential and most magnificent part of the religious worship, each
had his admirers and adherents; but the two poets, captivated at
last by popular applause, gave way to jealousy and rivalship. Of
120 tragedies which Sophocles composed, only seven are extant: Ajax,
Electra, Œdipus the tyrant, Antigone, the Trachiniæ, Philoctetes, and
Œdipus at Colonos. The ingratitude of the children of Sophocles is
well known. They wished to become immediate masters of their father’s
possessions, and therefore, tired of his long life, they accused
him before the Areopagus of insanity. The only defence the poet made
was to read his tragedy of Œdipus at Colonos, which he had lately
finished, and then he asked his judges, whether the author of such
a performance could be taxed with insanity? The father upon this
was acquitted, and the children returned home covered with shame
and confusion. Sophocles died in the 91st year of his age, 406 years
before Christ, through excess of joy, as some authors report, of
having obtained a poetical prize at the Olympic games. Athenæus has
accused Sophocles of licentiousness and debauchery, particularly when
he commanded the armies of Athens. The best editions of Sophocles are
those of Capperonier, 2 vols., 4to, Paris, 1780; of Glasgow, 2 vols.,
12mo, 1745; of Geneva, 4to, 1603; and that by Brunck, 4 vols., 8vo,
1786. _Cicero_, _Against Catiline_; _de Divinatione_, bk. 1, ch. 25.
――_Plutarch_, _Cimon_, &c.――_Quintilian_, bk. 1, ch. 10; bk. 10,
ch. 1.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 8, ch. 7; bk. 9, ch. 12.――_Pliny_,
bk. 7, ch. 53.――_Athenæus_, bk. 10, &c.
=Sophonisba=, a daughter of Asdrubal the Carthaginian, celebrated for
her beauty. She married Syphax, a prince of Numidia, and when her
husband was conquered by the Romans and Masinissa, she fell a captive
into the hands of the enemy. Masinissa became enamoured of her, and
married her. This behaviour displeased the Romans; and Scipio, who
at that time had the command of the armies of the republic in Africa,
rebuked the monarch severely, and desired him to part with Sophonisba.
This was an arduous task for Masinissa, yet he dreaded the Romans.
He entered Sophonisba’s tent with tears in his eyes, and told her
that, as he could not deliver her from captivity and the jealousy of
the Romans, he recommended her, as the strongest pledge of his love
and affection for her person, to die like the daughter of Asdrubal.
Sophonisba obeyed, and drank, with unusual composure and serenity,
the cup of poison which Masinissa sent to her, about 203 years before
Christ. _Livy_, bk. 30, ch. 12, &c.――_Sallust_, _Jugurthine War_.
――_Justin._
=Sophron=, a comic poet of Syracuse, son of Agathocles and Damasyllis.
His compositions were so universally esteemed, that Plato is said
to have read them with rapture. _Valerius Maximus_, bk. 8, ch. 7.
――_Quintilian_, bk. 1, ch. 10.
=Sophroniscus=, the father of Socrates.
=Sophronia=, a Roman lady whom Maxentius took by force from her
husband’s house, and married. Sophronia killed herself when she saw
that her affections were abused by the tyrant.
=Sophrosy̆ne=, a daughter of Dionysius by Dion’s sister.
=Sopŏlis=, the father of Hermolaus. _Curtius_, bk. 8, ch. 7.――――A
painter in Cicero’s age. _Cicero_, _Letters to Atticus_, bk. 4,
ltr. 16.
=Sora=, a town of the Volsci, of which the inhabitants were called
_Sorani_. _Silius Italicus_, bk. 8, li. 395.――_Cicero_, _For
Plancius_.
=Soractes= and =Soracte=, a mountain of Etruria, near the Tiber, seen
from Rome, at the distance of 26 miles. It was sacred to Apollo, who
is from thence surnamed _Soractis_; and it is said that the priests
of the god could walk over burning coals without hurting themselves.
There was, as some report, a fountain on mount Soracte, whose waters
boiled at sunrise, and instantly killed all such birds as drank
of them. _Strabo_, bk. 5.――_Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 93; bk. 7, ch. 2.
――_Horace_, bk. 1, ode 9.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 11, li. 785.
――_Silius Italicus_, bk. 5.
=Sorānus=, a man put to death by Nero. _See:_ Valerius.――――The father
of Atilia the first wife of Cato.
=Sorex=, a favourite of Sylla, and the companion of his debaucheries.
_Plutarch._
=Sorge=, a daughter of Œneus king of Calydon, by Æthea daughter
of Thestius. She married Andremon, and was mother of Oxilus.
_Apollodorus_, bks. 1 & 2.
=Soritia=, a town of Spain.
=Sosia Galla=, a woman at the court of Tiberius, banished, &c.
_Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 4, ch. 19.
=Sosibius=, a grammarian of Laconia, B.C. 255. He was a great favourite
of Ptolemy Philopator, and advised him to murder his brother, and
the queen his wife, called Arsinoe. He lived to a great age, and was
on that account called _Polychronos_. He was afterwards permitted
to retire from the court, and spend the rest of his days in peace
and tranquillity after he had disgraced the name of minister by the
most abominable crimes, and the murder of many of the royal family.
His son, of the same name, was preceptor to king Ptolemy Epiphanes.
――――The preceptor of Britannicus the son of Claudius. _Tacitus_,
_Annals_, bk. 11, ch. 1.
=Sosĭcles=, a Greek who behaved with great valour when Xerxes invaded
Greece.
=Sosicrătes=, a noble senator among the Achæans, put to death because
he wished his countrymen to make peace with the Romans.
=Sosigĕnes=, an Egyptian mathematician, who assisted Julius Cæsar in
regulating the Roman calendar. _Suetonius._――_Diodorus._――_Pliny_,
bk. 18, ch. 25.――――A commander of the fleet of Eumenes. _Polyænus_,
bk. 4.――――A friend of Demetrius Poliorcetes.
=Sosii=, celebrated booksellers at Rome, in the age of Horace, bk. 1,
ltr. 20, li. 2.
=Sosĭlus=, a Lacedæmonian in the age of Annibal. He lived in great
intimacy with the Carthaginian, taught him Greek, and wrote the
history of his life. _Cornelius Nepos_, _Hannibal_.
=Sosipăter=, a grammarian in the reign of Honorius. He published five
books of observations on grammar.――――A Syracusan magistrate.――――A
general of Philip king of Macedonia.
=Sosis=, a seditious Syracusan, who raised tumults against Dion.
When accused before the people he saved himself by flight, and thus
escaped a capital punishment.
=Sosistrătus=, a tyrant of Syracuse, in the age of Agathocles. He
invited Pyrrhus into Sicily, and afterwards revolted from him. He was
at last removed by Hermocrates. _Polyænus_, bk. 1.――――Another tyrant.
_Polyænus_, bk. 1.
=Sospis=, a consul who followed the interest of Mark Antony.――――A
governor of Syria.――――A Roman consular dignity, to whom Plutarch
dedicated his Lives.
=Sospĭta=, a surname of Juno in Latium. Her most famous temple was at
Lanuvium. She had also two at Rome, and her statue was covered with
a goat-skin, with a buckler, &c. _Livy_, bks. 3, 6, 8, &c.――_Festus_,
_Lexicon of Festus_.
=Sosthĕnes=, a general of Macedonia, who flourished B.C. 281. He
defeated the Gauls under Brennus, and was killed in the battle.
_Justin_, bk. 24, ch. 5.――――A native of Cnidos, who wrote a history
of Iberia. _Plutarch._
=Sostrătus=, a friend of Hermolaus, put to death for conspiring against
Alexander. _Curtius_, bk. 1, ch. 6.――――A grammarian in the age of
Augustus. He was Strabo’s preceptor. _Strabo_, bk. 14.――――A statuary.
――――An architect of Cnidos, B.C. 284, who built the white tower of
Pharos, in the bay of Alexandria. He inscribed his name upon it.
_See:_ Pharos. _Strabo_, bk. 17.――_Pliny_, bk. 30, ch. 12.――――A
priest of Venus at Paphos, among the favourites of Vespasian.
_Tacitus_, _Histories_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――――A favourite of Hercules.
――――A Greek historian, who wrote an account of Etruria.――――A poet,
who wrote a poem on the expedition of Xerxes into Greece. _Juvenal_,
satire 10, li. 178.
=Sotădes=, an athlete. A Greek poet of Thrace. He wrote verses against
Philadelphus Ptolemy, for which he was thrown into the sea in a cage
of lead. He was called _Cinædus_, not only because he was addicted
to the abominable crime which the surname indicates, but because he
wrote a poem in commendation of it. Some suppose, that instead of
the word _Socraticos_ in the 2nd satire, verse the 10th, of Juvenal,
the word _Sotadicos_ should be inserted, as the poet Sotades, and
not the philosopher Socrates, deserved the appellation of Cinædus.
Obscene verses were generally called _Sotadea carmina_ from him.
They could be turned and read different ways without losing their
measure or sense, such as the following, which can be read
backwards:
_Roma tibi subito motibus ibit amor.
Si bene te tua laus taxat, sua laute tenebis.
Sole medere pede, ede, perede melos._
_Quintilian_, bk. 1, ch. 8; bk. 9, ch. 4.――_Pliny_, bk. 5, ltr. 3.
――_Ausonius_, ltr. 17, li. 29.
=Soter=, a surname of the first Ptolemy.――――It was also common to other
monarchs.
=Soteria=, days appointed for thanksgivings and the offerings of
sacrifices for deliverance from danger. One of these was observed at
Sicyone, to ♦commemorate the deliverance of that city from the hands
of the Macedonians, by Aratus.
♦ ‘commemmorate’ replaced with ‘commemorate’
=Soterĭcus=, a poet and historian in the age of Diocletian. He wrote
a panegyric on that emperor, as also a life of Apollonius Thyanæus.
His works, greatly esteemed, are now lost, except some few fragments
preserved by the scholiast of Lycophron.
=Sothis=, an Egyptian name of the constellation called Sirius, which
received divine honours in that country.
=Sotiates=, a people of Gaul, conquered by Cæsar. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_,
bk. 3, chs. 20 & 21.
=Sotion=, a grammarian and philosopher of Alexandria, preceptor to
Seneca. _Seneca_, ltrs. 49 & 58.
=Sotius=, a philosopher in the reign of Tiberius.
=Sous=, a king of Sparta, who made himself known by his valour, &c.
=Sozŏmen=, an ecclesiastical historian, who died 450 A.D. His history
extends from the year 324 to 429, and is dedicated to Theodosius the
younger, being written in a style of inelegance and mediocrity. The
best edition is that of Reading, folio, Cambridge, 1720.
=Spaco=, the name of Cyrus. _Justin_, bk. 1, ch. 4.――_Herodotus._
=Sparta=, a celebrated city of Peloponnesus, the capital of Laconia,
situate on the Eurotas, at the distance of about 30 miles from its
mouth. It received its name from Sparta the daughter of Eurotas, who
married Lacedæmon. It was also called Lacedæmon. _See:_ Lacedæmon.
=Spartăcus=, a king of Pontus.――――Another, king of Bosphorus, who
died B.C. 433. His son and successor of the same name died B.C. 407.
――――Another, who died 284 B.C.――――A Thracian shepherd, celebrated for
his abilities and the victories which he obtained over the Romans.
Being one of the gladiators who were kept at Capua in the house of
Lentulus, he escaped from the place of his confinement, with 30 of
his companions, and took up arms against the Romans. He soon found
himself with 10,000 men equally resolute with himself, and though
at first obliged to hide himself in the woods and solitary retreats
of Campania, he soon laid waste the country; and when his followers
were increased by additional numbers, and better disciplined, and
more completely armed, he attacked the Roman generals in the field
of battle. Two consuls and other officers were defeated with much
loss, and Spartacus, superior in counsel and abilities, appeared more
terrible, though often deserted by his fickle attendants. Crassus
was sent against him, but this celebrated general at first despaired
of success. A bloody battle was fought, in which, at last, the
gladiators were defeated. Spartacus ♦behaved with great valour: when
wounded in the leg, he fought on his knees, covering himself with his
buckler in one hand, and using his sword with the other; and when at
last he fell, he fell upon a heap of Romans, whom he had sacrificed
to his fury, B.C. 71. In this battle no less than 40,000 of the
rebels were slain, and the war totally finished. _Florus_, bk. 3,
ch. 20.――_Livy_, bk. 95.――_Eutropius_, bk. 6, ch. 2.――_Plutarch_,
_Crassus_.――_Paterculus_, bk. 2, ch. 30.――_Appian._
♦ ‘bahaved’ replaced with ‘behaved’
=Spartæ=, or =Sparti=, a name given to those men who sprang from the
dragon’s teeth which Cadmus sowed. They all destroyed one another,
except five, who survived and assisted Cadmus in building Thebes.
=Spartāni=, or =Spartiātæ=, the inhabitants of Sparta. _See:_ Sparta,
Lacedæmon.
=Spartiānus Ælius=, a Latin historian who wrote the lives of all
the Roman emperors, from Julius Cæsar to Diocletian. He dedicated
them to Diocletian, to whom, according to some, he was related. Of
these compositions only the life of Adrian, Verus, Didius Julianus,
Septimus Severus, Caracalla, and Geta, are extant, published among
the Scriptores Historiæ Augustæ. Spartianus is not esteemed as an
historian or biographer.
=Spechia=, an ancient name of the island of Cyprus.
=Spendius=, a Campanian deserter who rebelled against the Romans and
raised tumults, and made war against Amilcar the Carthaginian general.
=Spendon=, a poet of Lacedæmon.
=Sperchīa=, a town of Thessaly, on the banks of the Sperchius.
_Ptolemy._
=Sperchīus=, a river of Thessaly, rising on mount Œta, and falling
into the sea in the bay of Malia, near Anticyra. The name is supposed
to be derived from its rapidity (σπερχειν, _festinare_). Peleus
vowed to the god of this river the hair of his son Achilles, if ever
he returned safe from the Trojan war. _Herodotus_, bk. 7, ch. 198.
――_Strabo_, bk. 9.――_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 23, li. 144.――_Apollodorus_,
bk. 3, ch. 13.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 3.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 1,
li. 557; bk. 2, li. 250; bk. 7, li. 230.
=Spermatophăgi=, a people who lived in the extremest parts of Egypt.
They fed upon the fruits that fell from the trees.
=Speusippus=, an Athenian philosopher, nephew, as also successor, of
Plato. His father’s name was Eurymedon, and his mother’s Potone. He
presided in Plato’s school for eight years, and disgraced himself
by his extravagance and debauchery. Plato attempted to check him,
but to no purpose. He died of the lousy sickness, or killed himself,
according to some accounts, B.C. 339. _Plutarch_, _Lysander_.
――_Diogenes Laërtius_, bk. 4.――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 4, ch. 1.
=Sphacteriæ=, three small islands opposite Pylos, on the coast of
Messenia. They are also called _Sphagiæ_.
=Spherus=, an arm-bearer of Pelops son of Tantalus. He was buried in
a small island near the isthmus of Corinth, which, from him, was
called _Sphetia_. _Pausanias_, bk. 5, ch. 10.――――A Greek philosopher,
disciple to Zeno of Cyprus, 243 B.C. He came to Sparta in the age of
Agis and Cleomenes, and opened a school there. _Plutarch_, _Agis_.
――_Diodorus._
=Sphinx=, a monster which had the head and breasts of a woman, the body
of a dog, the tail of a serpent, the wings of a bird, the paws of a
lion, and a human voice. It sprang from the union of Orthos with the
Chimæra, or of Typhon with Echidna. The Sphinx had been sent into
the neighbourhood of Thebes by Juno, who wished to punish the family
of Cadmus, which she persecuted with immortal hatred, and it laid
this part of Bœotia under continual alarms by proposing enigmas, and
devouring the inhabitants if unable to explain them. In the midst
of their consternation the Thebans were told by the oracle, that
the Sphinx would destroy herself as soon as one of the enigmas she
proposed was explained. In this enigma she wished to know what animal
walked on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three in the
evening. Upon this, Creon king of Thebes promised his crown and his
sister Jocasta in marriage to him who could deliver his country from
the monster by a successful explanation of the enigma. It was at
last happily explained by Œdipus, who observed that man walked on
his hands and feet when young, or in the morning of life, at the noon
of life he walked erect, and in the evening of his days he supported
his infirmities upon a stick. _See:_ Œdipus. The Sphinx no sooner
heard this explanation than she dashed her head against a rock, and
immediately expired. Some mythologists wish to unriddle the fabulous
traditions about the Sphinx, by the supposition that one of the
daughters of Cadmus, or Laius, infested the country of Thebes by
her continual depredations, because she had been refused a part of
her father’s possessions. The lion’s paw expressed, as they observe,
her cruelty, the body of the dog her lasciviousness, her enigmas
the snares she laid for strangers and travellers, and her wings
the despatch she used in her expeditions. _Plutarch._――_Hesiod_,
_Theogony_, li. 326.――_Hyginus_, fable 68.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3,
ch. 5.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.――_Ovid_, _Ibis_, li. 378.――_Strabo_, bk. 9.
――_Sophocles_, _Œdipus Tyrannus_.
=Sphodrias=, a Spartan who, at the instigation of Cleombrotus,
attempted to seize the Piræus. _Diodorus_, bk. 15.
=Sphragidium=, a retired cave on mount Cithæron in Bœotia. The nymphs
of the place, called _Sphragitides_, were yearly honoured with a
sacrifice by the Athenians, by order of the oracle of Delphi, because
they had lost few men at the battle of Platæa. _Pliny_, bk. 35, ch. 6.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 9, ch. 3.――_Plutarch_, _Aristeides_.
=Spicillus=, a favourite of Nero. He refused to assassinate his master,
for which he was put to death in a cruel manner.
=Spina=, now _Primaso_, a town on the most southern mouth of the Po.
_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 16.
=Spintharus=, a Corinthian architect, who built Apollo’s temple at
Delphi. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 5.――――A freedman of Cicero. _Letters
to Atticus_, bk. 13, ltr. 25.
=Spinther=, a Roman consul. He was one of Pompey’s friends, and
accompanied him at the battle of Pharsalia, where he betrayed his
meanness by being too confident of victory, and contending for
the possession of Cæsar’s offices and gardens before the action.
_Plutarch._
=Spio=, one of the Nereides. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 5, li. 26.
=Spitamĕnes=, one of the officers of king Darius, who conspired against
the murderer Bessus, and delivered him to Alexander. _Curtius_, bk. 7,
ch. 5.
=Spithobătes=, a satrap of Ionia, son-in-law of Darius. He was killed
at the battle of the Granicus. _Diodorus_, bk. 17.
=Spithridates=, a Persian killed by Clitus as he was going to strike
Alexander dead.――――A Persian satrap in the age of Lysander.
=Spoletium=, now _Spoleto_, a town of Umbria, which bravely withstood
Annibal while he was in Italy. The people were called _Spoletani_.
Water is conveyed to the town from a neighbouring ♦fountain by an
aqueduct of such a great height, that in one place the top is raised
above the foundation 230 yards. An inscription over the gates still
commemorates the defeat of Annibal. _Martial_, bk. 13, ltr. 20.
♦ ‘fountani’ replaced with ‘fountain’
=Spŏrădes=, a number of islands in the Ægean sea. They received their
name _à_ σπειρω, _spargo_, because they are scattered in the sea at
some distance from Delos, and in the neighbourhood of Crete. Those
islands that are contiguous to Delos, and that encircle it, are
called _Cyclades_. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Strabo_, bk. 2.
=Spurīna=, a mathematician and astrologer, who told Julius Cæsar to
beware of the ides of March. As he went to the senate-house on the
morning of the ides, Cæsar said to Spurina, “The ides are at last
come.” “Yes,” replied Spurina, “but not yet past.” Cæsar was murdered
a few moments after. _Suetonius_, _Cæsar_, ch. 81.――_Valerius
Maximus_, bks. 1 & 8.
=Spurius=, a prænomen common to many of the Romans.――――One of Cæsar’s
murderers.――――Latius, a Roman who defended the bridge over the Tiber
against Porsenna’s army.――――A friend of Otho, &c.
=Lucius Staberius=, a friend of Pompey, set over Apollonia, which he
was obliged to yield to Cæsar, because the inhabitants favoured his
cause. _Cæsar_, _Gallic War_.――――An avaricious fellow, who wished it
to be known that he was uncommonly rich. _Horace_, bk. 2, satire 3,
li. 89.
=Stabiæ=, a maritime town of Campania on the bay of Puteoli, destroyed
by Sylla, and converted into a villa, whither Pliny endeavoured to
escape from the eruption of Vesuvius, in which he perished. _Pliny_,
bk. 3, ch. 5; bk. 6, ch. 16.
=Stabŭlum=, a place in the Pyrenees, where a communication was open
from Gaul into Spain.
=Stagīra=, a town on the borders of Macedonia, near the bay into
which the Strymon discharges itself, at the south of Amphipolis;
founded 665 years before Christ. Aristotle was born there, from
which circumstance he is called _Stagirites_. _Thucydides_, bk. 4.
――_Pausanias_, bk. 6, ch. 4.――_Diogenes Laërtius_, _Solon_.――_Ælian_,
_Varia Historia_, bk. 3, ch. 46.
=Staius=, an unprincipled wretch, in Nero’s age, who murdered all his
relations. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 19.
=Stalēnus=, a senator who sat as judge in the trial of Cluentius, &c.
_Cicero_, _For Aulus Cluentius_.
=Staphy̆lus=, one of the Argonauts, son of Theseus, or, according to
others, of Bacchus and Ariadne. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 9.
=Stasander=, an officer of Alexander, who had Aria at the general
division of the provinces. _Curtius_, bk. 8, ch. 3.
=Staseas=, a peripatetic philosopher, engaged to instruct young Marcus
Piso in philosophy. _Cicero_, _On Oratory_, bk. 1, ch. 22.
=Stasicrătes=, a statuary and architect in the wars of Alexander, who
offered to make a statue of mount Athos, which was rejected by the
conqueror, &c.
=Stasileus=, an Athenian killed at the battle of Marathon. He was one
of the 10 pretors.
=Statilli=, a people of Liguria, between the Tænarus and the Apennines.
_Livy_, bk. 42, ch. 7.――_Cicero_, bk. 11, _Letters to his Friends_,
ltr. 11.
=Statilia=, a woman who lived to a great age, as mentioned by Seneca,
ltr. 77.――――Another. _See:_ Messalina.
=Statilius=, a young Roman celebrated for his courage and constancy.
He was an inveterate enemy to Cæsar, and when Cato murdered himself,
he attempted to follow his example, but was prevented by his friends.
The conspirators against Cæsar wished him to be in their number, but
the answer which he gave displeased Brutus. He was at last killed by
the army of the triumvirs. _Plutarch._――――Lucius, one of the friends
of Catiline. He joined in his conspiracy, and was put to death.
_Cicero_, _Against Catiline_, ch. 2.――――A young general in the
war which the Latins undertook against the Romans. He was killed,
with 25,000 of his troops.――――A general who fought against Antony.
――――Taurus, a proconsul of Africa. He was accused of consulting
magicians, upon which he put himself to death. _Tacitus_, _Annals_,
bk. 12, ch. 59.
=Statĭnæ=, islands on the coast of Campania, raised from the sea by an
earthquake. _Pliny_, bk. 2, ch. 88.