had formerly refused her, but when she had fallen into his hands at
Issus, the nuptials were celebrated with uncommon splendour. No less
than 9000 persons attended, to each of whom Alexander gave a golden
cup, to be offered to the gods. Statira had no children by Alexander.
She was cruelly put to death by Roxana, after the conqueror’s death.
_Justin_, bk. 12, ch. 12.――――A sister of Darius the last king of
Persia. She also became his wife, according to the manners of the
Persians. She died after an abortion, in Alexander’s camp, where
she was detained as a prisoner. She was buried with great pomp by
the conqueror. _Plutarch_, _Alexander_.――――A wife of Artaxerxes
Memnon, poisoned by her mother-in-law queen Parysatis. _Plutarch_,
_Artaxerxes_.――――A sister of Mithridates the Great. _Plutarch._
=Statius Cæcilius=, a comic poet in the age of Ennius. He was a
native of Gaul, and originally a slave. His latinity was bad, yet
he acquired great reputation by his comedies. He died a little after
Ennius. _Cicero_, _de Senectute_.――――Annæus, a physician, the friend
of the philosopher Seneca. _Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 15, ch. 64.
――――Publius Papinius, a poet born at Naples, in the reign of the
emperor Domitian. His father’s name was Statius of Epirus, and his
mother’s Agelina. Statius has made himself known by two epic poems,
the _Thebais_ in 12 books, and the _Achilleis_ in two books, which
remained unfinished on account of his premature death. There are,
besides, other pieces composed on several subjects, which are extant,
and well known under the name of _Sylvæ_, divided into four books.
The two epic poems of Statius are dedicated to Domitian, whom the
poet ranks among the gods. They were universally admired in his age
at Rome, but the taste of the times was corrupted, though some of
the moderns have called them inferior to no Latin compositions except
Virgil’s. The style of Statius is bombastic and affected, and he
often forgets the poet to become the declaimer and the historian.
In his _Sylvæ_, which were written generally extempore, are many
beautiful expressions and strokes of genius. Statius, as some suppose,
was poor, and he was obliged to maintain himself by writing for
the stage. None of his dramatic pieces are extant. Martial has
satirized him, and what Juvenal has written in his praise, some have
interpreted as an illiberal reflection upon him. Statius died about
the 100th year of the christian era. The best editions of his works
are that of Barthius, 2 vols., 4to, Zwickau, 1664, and that of the
Variorum, 8vo, Leiden, 1671; and of the Thebais, separate, that of
Warrington, 2 vols., 12mo, 1778.――――Domitius, a tribune in the age of
Nero, deprived of his office when Piso’s conspiracy was discovered.
_Tacitus_, _Annals_, bk. 15, ch. 17.――――A general of the Samnites.
――――An officer of the pretorian guards, who conspired against Nero.
=Stator=, a surname of Jupiter, given him by Romulus, because he
_stopped_ (_sto_) the flight of the Romans in a battle against the
Sabines. The conqueror erected him a temple under that name. _Livy_,
bk. 1, ch. 12.
=Stellates=, a field remarkable for its fertility, in Campania.
_Cicero_, _On the Agrarian Law_, bk. 1, ch. 70.――_Suetonius_, _Cæsar_,
ch. 20.
=Stellio=, a youth turned into an elf by Ceres, because he derided the
goddess, who drank with avidity when tired and afflicted in her vain
pursuit of her daughter Proserpine. _Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 5,
li. 445.
=Stena=, a narrow passage on the mountains near Antigonia, in Chaonia.
_Livy_, bk. 32, ch. 5.
=Stenobœa.= _See:_ Sthenobœa.
=Stenocrătes=, an Athenian who conspired to murder the commander of the
garrison which Demetrius had placed in the citadel, &c. _Polyænus_,
bk. 5.
=Stentor=, one of the Greeks who went to the Trojan war. His voice
alone was louder than that of 50 men together. _Homer_, _Iliad_,
bk. 5, li. 784.――_Juvenal_, satire 13, li. 112.
=Stentoris lacus=, a lake near Enos in Thrace. _Herodotus_, bk. 7,
ch. 58.
=Stephănus=, a musician of Media, upon whose body Alexander made an
experiment in burning a certain sort of bitumen called naphtha.
_Strabo_, bk. 16.――_Plutarch_, _Alexander_.――――A Greek writer of
Byzantium, known for his dictionary giving an account of the towns
and places of the ancient world, of which the best edition is that
of Gronovius, 2 vols., folio, Leiden, 1694.
=Sterŏpe=, one of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas. She married Œnomaus
king of Pisa, by whom she had Hippodamia, &c.――――A daughter of
Parthaon, supposed by some to be the mother of the Sirens.――――A
daughter of Cepheus.――――A daughter of Pleuron,――――of Acastus,――――of
Danaus,――――of Cebrion.
=Sterŏpes=, one of the Cyclops. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 8, li. 425.
=Stersichŏrus=, a lyric Greek poet of Himera, in Sicily. He was
originally called _Tisias_, and obtained the name of Stersichorus
from the alterations which he made in music and dancing. His
compositions were written in the Doric dialect, and comprised in
26 books, all now lost, except a few fragments. Some say he lost his
eyesight for writing invectives against Helen, and that he received
it only upon making a recantation of what he had said. He was the
first inventor of that fable of the horse and the stag, which Horace
and some other poets have imitated, and this he wrote to prevent
his countrymen from making an alliance with Phalaris. According to
some, he was the first who wrote an epithalamium. He flourished 556
B.C., and died at Cantana, in the 85th year of his age. _Isocrates_,
_Helen_.――_Aristotle_, _Rhetoric_.――_Strabo_, bk. 3.――_Lucian_,
_Macrobii_.――_Cicero_, _in Against Verres_, bk. 2, ch. 35.
――_Plutarch_, _de Musica_.――_Quintilian_, bk. 10, ch. 1.――_Pausanias_,
bk. 3, ch. 19; bk. 10, ch. 26.
=Stertinius=, a stoic philosopher, ridiculed by Horace, bk. 2, satire 3.
He wrote in Latin verse 220 books on the philosophy of the stoics.
=Stesagŏras=, a brother of Miltiades. _See:_ Miltiades.
=Stesilēa=, a beautiful woman of Athens, &c.
=Stesilēus=, a beautiful youth of Cos, loved by Themistocles and
Aristides, and the cause of jealousy and dissension between these
celebrated men. _Plutarch_, _Cimon_.
=Stesimbrŏtus=, an historian very inconsistent in his narrations. He
wrote an account of Cimon’s exploits. _Plutarch_, _Cimom_.――――A son
of Epaminondas, put to death by his father, because he had fought the
enemy without his orders, &c. _Plutarch._――――A musician of Thasos.
=Sthenele=, a daughter of Acastus, wife of Menœtius. _Apollodorus_,
bk. 3, ch. 13.――――A daughter of Danaus by Memphis. _Apollodorus_,
bk. 2, ch. 1.
=Sthenĕlus=, a king of Mycenæ, son of Perseus and Andromeda. He married
Nicippe the daughter of Pelops, by whom he had two daughters, and a
son called Eurystheus, who was born, by Juno’s influence, two months
before the natural time, that he might obtain a superiority over
Hercules, as being older. Sthenelus made war against Amphitryon, who
had killed Electryon and seized his kingdom. He fought with success,
and took his enemy prisoner, whom he transmitted to Eurystheus.
_Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 19, li. 91.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 4.
――――One of the sons of Ægyptus by Tyria.――――A son of Capaneus. He
was one of the Epigoni, and of the suitors of Helen. He went to the
Trojan war, and was one of those who were shut up in the wooden horse,
according to Virgil. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 18.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_,
bks. 2 & 10.――――A son of Androgeus the son of Minos. Hercules made
him king of Thrace. _Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――――A king of Argos,
who succeeded his father Crotopus. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 16.――――A
son of Actor, who accompanied Hercules in his expedition against the
Amazons. He was killed by one of these females.――――A son of Melas,
killed by Tydeus. _Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 8.
=Sthenis=, a statuary of Olynthus.――――An orator of Himera in Sicily,
during the civil wars of Pompey. _Plutarch_, _Pompey_.
=Stheno=, one of the three Gorgons.
=Sthenobœa=, a daughter of Jobates king of Lycia, who married Prœtus
king of Argos. She became enamoured of Bellerophon, who had taken
refuge at her husband’s court, after the murder of his brother, and
when he refused to gratify her criminal passion, she accused him
before Prœtus of attempts upon her virtue. According to some she
killed herself after his departure. _Homer_, _Iliad_, bk. 6, li. 162.
――_Hyginus_, fable 57.――――Many mythologists call her Antæa.
=Stilbe=, or =Stilbia=, a daughter of Peneus by Creusa, who became
mother of Centaurus and Lapithus by Apollo. _Diodorus_, bk. 4.
=Stilbo=, a name given to the planet Mercury by the ancients, from its
shining appearance. _Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 2, ch. 20.
=Stĭlĭcho=, a general of the emperor Theodosius the Great. He behaved
with much courage, but under the emperor Honorius he showed himself
turbulent and disaffected. As being of barbarian extraction, he
wished to see the Roman provinces laid desolate by his countrymen,
but in this he was disappointed. Honorius discovered his intrigues,
and ordered him to be beheaded about the year of Christ 408. His
family were involved in his ruin. Claudian has been loud in his
praises, and Zosimus, _Historia Nova_, bk. 5, denies the truth of
the charges laid against him.
=Stilpo=, a celebrated philosopher of Megara, who flourished 336
years before Christ, and was greatly esteemed by Ptolemy Soter.
He was naturally addicted to riot and debauchery, but he reformed
his manners when he opened a school at Megara. He was universally
respected, his school was frequented, and Demetrius, when he
plundered Megara, ordered the house of the philosopher to be left
safe and unmolested. It is said that he intoxicated himself when
ready to die, to alleviate the terrors of death. He was one of the
chiefs of the Stoics. _Plutarch_, _Demosthenes_.――_Diogenes Laërtius_,
bk. 2.――_Seneca_, _de Constantia_.
=Stĭmĭcon=, a shepherd’s name in Virgil’s fifth eclogue.
=Stiphĭlus=, one of the Lapithæ, killed in the house of Pirithous.
_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 12.
=Stobæus=, a Greek writer who flourished A.D. 405. His work is valuable
for the precious relics of ancient literature which he has preserved.
The best edition is that of Geneva, folio, 1609.
=Stobi=, a town of Pœonia, in Macedonia. _Livy_, bk. 33, ch. 19; bk. 40,
ch. 21.
=Stœchădes=, five small islands in the Mediterranean, on the coast of
Gaul, now the _Hieres_, near Marseilles. They were called Ligustides
by some, but Pliny speaks of them as only three in number. _Stephanus
Byzantius._――_Lucan_, bk. 3, li. 515.――_Strabo_, bk. 4.
=Stœni=, a people living among the Alps. _Livy_, bk. 62.
=Stoĭci=, a celebrated sect of philosophers founded by Zeno of
Citium. They received the name from the _portico_ (στυα), where
the philosopher delivered his lectures. They preferred virtue to
everything else, and whatever was opposite to it, they looked upon
as the greatest of evils. They required, as well as the disciples of
Epicurus, an absolute command over the passions, and they supported
that man alone, in the present state of his existence, could attain
perfection and felicity. They encouraged suicide, and believed that
the doctrine of future punishments and rewards was unnecessary to
excite or intimidate their followers. _See:_ Zeno.
=Strabo=, a name among the Romans, given to those whose eyes were
naturally deformed or distorted. Pompey’s father was distinguished
by that name.――――A native of Amasia, on the borders of Cappadocia,
who flourished in the age of Augustus and Tiberius. He first studied
under Xenarchus the peripatetic, and afterwards warmly embraced the
tenets of the Stoics. Of all his compositions nothing remains but
his geography, divided into 17 books, a work justly celebrated for
its elegance, its purity, the erudition and universal knowledge of
the author. It contains an account, in Greek, of the most celebrated
places of the world, the origin, the manners, religion, prejudices,
and government of nations; the foundation of cities, and the accurate
history of each separate province. Strabo travelled over great part
of the world in quest of information, and to examine with the most
critical inquiry, not only the situation of the places, but also the
manners of the inhabitants, whose history he meant to write. In the
two first books the author wishes to show the necessity of geography;
in the 3rd he gives a description of Spain; in the 4th of Gaul and
the British isles. The 5th and 6th contain an account of Italy and
the neighbouring islands; the 7th, which is mutilated at the end,
gives a full description of Germany, and the country of the Getæ,
Illyricum, Taurica, Chersonesus, and Epirus. The affairs of Greece
and the adjacent islands are separately treated in the 8th, 9th, and
10th; and in the four next Asia, within mount Taurus; and in the 15th
and 16th, Asia without Taurus, India, Persia, Syria, and Arabia; the
last book gives an account of Egypt, Æthiopia, Carthage, and other
places of Africa. Among the books of Strabo which have been lost,
were historical commentaries. This celebrated geographer died A.D.
25. The best editions of his geography are those of Casaubon, folio,
Paris, 1620; and of Amsterdam, 2 vols., folio, 1707.――――A Sicilian,
so clear-sighted, that he could distinguish objects at the distance
of 130 miles, with the same ease as if they had been near.
=Stratarchas=, the grandfather of the geographer Strabo. His father’s
name was Dorylaus. _Strabo_, bk. 10.
=Strato=, or =Straton=, a king of the island Aradus, received into
alliance by Alexander. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 1.――――A king of Sidon,
dependent upon Darius. Alexander deposed him, because he refused to
surrender. _Curtius_, bk. 4, ch. 1.――――A philosopher of Lampsacus,
disciple and successor in the school of Theophrastus, about 289 years
before the christian era. He applied himself with uncommon industry
to the study of nature, and was surnamed _Physicus_; and after the
most mature investigations, he supported that nature was inanimate,
and that there was no god but nature. He was appointed preceptor
to Ptolemy Philadelphus, who not only revered his abilities and
learning, but also rewarded his labours with unbounded liberality.
He wrote different treatises, all now lost. _Diogenes Laërtius_,
bk. 5.――_Cicero_, _Academica_, bk. 1, ch. 9; bk. 4, ch. 38, &c.――――A
physician.――――A peripatetic philosopher.――――A native of Epirus, very
intimate with Brutus the murderer of Cæsar. He killed his friend
at his own request.――――A rich Orchomenian who destroyed himself,
because he could not obtain in marriage a young woman of Haliartus.
_Plutarch._――――A Greek historian who wrote the life of some of the
Macedonian kings.――――An athlete of Achaia, twice crowned at the
Olympic games. _Pausanias_, bk. 7, ch. 23.
=Stratŏcles=, an Athenian general at the battle of Cheronæ, &c.,
_Polyænus._――――A stage-player in Domitian’s reign. _Juvenal_,
satire 3, li. 99.
=Straton.= _See:_ Strato.
=Stratŏnīce=, a daughter of Thespius. _Apollodorus._――――A daughter
of Pleuron. _Apollodorus._――――A daughter of Ariarathes king of
Cappadocia, who married Eumenes king of Pergamus, and became mother
of Attalus. _Strabo_, bk. 13.――――A daughter of Demetrius Poliorcetes,
who married Seleucus king of Syria. Antiochus, her husband’s son
by a former wife, became enamoured of her, and married her with his
father’s consent, when the physicians had told him that if he did not
comply, his son’s health would be impaired. _Plutarch_, _Demetrius_.
――_Valerius Maximus_, bk. 5, ch. 7.――――A concubine of Mithridates
king of Pontus. _Plutarch_, _Pompey_.――――The wife of Antigonus,
mother of Demetrius Poliorcetes.――――A town of Caria, made a
Macedonian colony. _Strabo_, bk. 14.――_Livy_, bk. 33, chs. 18 & 33.
――――Another, in Mesopotamia.――――A third, near mount Taurus.
=Stratonīcus=, an opulent person in the reign of Philip, and of his son
Alexander, whose riches became proverbial. _Plutarch._――――A musician
of Athens in the age of Demosthenes. _Athenæus_, bk. 6, ch. 6; bk. 8,
ch. 12.
=Stratonis turris=, a city of Judea, afterwards called Cæsarea by Herod
in honour of Augustus.
=Stratos=, a city of Æolia. _Livy_, bk. 36, ch. 11.――――Of Acarnania.
=Strenua=, a goddess at Rome, who gave vigour and energy to the weak
and indolent. _Augustine_, _City of God_, bk. 4, chs. 11 & 16.
=Strongy̆le=, now _Strombolo_, one of the islands called Æolides in the
Tyrrhene sea, near the coast of Sicily. It has a volcano, 10 miles
in circumference, which throws up flame continually, and of which
the crater is on the side of the mountain. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.
――_Strabo_, bk. 6.――_Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 11.
=Strophădes=, two islands in the Ionian sea, on the western coasts of
the Peloponnesus. They were anciently called _Plotæ_, and received
the name of Strophades from στρεφω, _verto_, because Zethes and
Calais, the sons of Boreas, returned from thence by order of Jupiter,
after they had driven the Harpies there from the tables of Phineus.
The fleet of Æneas stopped near the Strophades. The largest of these
two islands is not above five miles in circumference. _Hyginus_,
fable 19.――_Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 7.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_, bk. 13,
li. 709.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 3, li. 210.――_Strabo_, bk. 8.
=Strophius=, a son of Crisus king of Phocis. He married a sister of
Agamemnon, called Anaxibia, or Astyochia, or, according to others,
Cyndragora, by whom he had Pylades, celebrated for his friendship
with Orestes. After the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and
Ægisthus, the king of Phocis educated at his own house, with the
greatest care, his nephew, whom Electra had secretly removed from the
dagger of his mother and her adulterer. Orestes was enabled, by means
of Strophius, to revenge the death of his father. _Pausanias_, bk. 2,
ch. 29.――_Hyginus_, fables 1, 17.――――A son of Pylades by Electra the
sister of Orestes.
=Struthophăgi=, a people of Æthiopia, who fed on sparrows, as their
name signifies.
=Struthus=, a general of Artaxerxes against the Lacedæmonians, B.C. 393.
=Stryma=, a town of Thrace, founded by a Thasian colony. _Herodotus_,
bk. 7, ch. 109.
=Strymno=, a daughter of the Scamander, who married Laomedon.
_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 12.
=Strymon=, a river which separates Thrace from Macedonia, and falls
into a part of the Ægean sea, which has been called _Strymonicus
sinus_. A number of cranes, as the poets say, resorted on its banks
in the summer time. Its eels were excellent. _Mela_, bk. 2, ch. 2.
――_Apollodorus_, bk. 2, ch. 5.――_Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 1, li. 120;
bk. 4, li. 508; _Æneid_, bk. 10, li. 265.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 2, li. 251.
=Stubera=, a town of Macedonia, between the Axius and Erigon. _Livy_,
bk. 31, ch. 39.
=Stura=, a river of Cisalpine Gaul, falling into the Po.
=Sturni=, a town of Calabria.
=Stymphālia=, or =Stymphālis=, a part of Macedonia. _Livy_, bk. 45,
ch. 30.――――A surname of Diana.
=Stymphālus=, a king of Arcadia, son of Elatus and Laodice. He made
war against Pelops, and was killed in a truce. _Apollodorus_, bk. 3,
ch. 9.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8, ch. 4.――――A town, river, lake, and
fountain of Arcadia, which receives its name from king Stymphalus.
The neighbourhood of the lake Stymphalus was infested with a number
of voracious birds, like cranes or storks, which fed upon human flesh,
and which were called _Stymphalides_. They were at last destroyed by
Hercules, with the assistance of Minerva. Some have confounded them
with the Harpies, while others pretend that they never existed but in
the imagination of the poets. Pausanias, however, supports that there
were carnivorous birds like the Stymphalides, in Arabia. _Pausanias_,
bk. 8, ch. 4.――_Statius_, _Thebaid_, bk. 4, li. 298.――――A lofty
mountain of Peloponnesus in Arcadia.
=Stygne=, a daughter of Danaus. _Statius_, _Sylvæ_, bk. 4, poem 6.
――_Apollodorus._
=Styra=, a town of Eubœa.
=Stȳrus=, a king of Albania, to whom Æetes promised his daughter
Medea in marriage, to obtain his assistance against the Argonauts.
_Flaccus_, bk. 3, li. 497; bk. 8, li. 358.
=Styx=, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She married Pallas, by whom
she had three daughters, Victory, Strength, and Valour. _Hesiod_,
_Theogony_, lis. 363 & 384.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 2.――――A
celebrated river of hell, round which it flows nine times. According
to some writers, the Styx was a small river of Nonacris in Arcadia,
whose waters were so cold and venomous, that they proved fatal to
such as tasted them. Among others, Alexander the Great is mentioned
as a victim to their fatal poison, in consequence of drinking
them. They even consumed iron, and broke all vessels. The wonderful
properties of this water suggested the idea that it was a river of
hell, especially when it disappeared in the earth a little below
its fountain head. The gods held the waters of the Styx in such
veneration, that they always swore by them; an oath which was
inviolable. If any of the gods had perjured themselves, Jupiter
obliged them to drink the waters of the Styx, which lulled them for
one whole year into a senseless stupidity; for the nine following
years they were deprived of the ambrosia and the nectar of the gods,
and after the expiration of the years of their punishment, they were
restored to the assembly of the deities, and to all their original
privileges. It is said that this veneration was shown to the Styx,
because it received its name from the nymph Styx, who, with her three
daughters, assisted Jupiter in his war against the Titans. _Hesiod_,
_Theogony_, lis. 384, 775.――_Homer_, _Odyssey_, bk. 10, li. 513.
――_Herodotus_, bk. 6, ch. 74.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, lis. 323,
439, &c.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 1, ch. 3.――_Ovid_, _Metamorphoses_,
bk. 3, li. 29, &c.――_Lucan_, bk. 6, li. 378, &c.――_Pausanias_, bk. 8,
chs. 17 & 18.――_Curtius_, bk. 10, ch. 10.
=Suada=, the goddess of persuasion, called Pitho by the Greeks. She
had a form of worship established to her honour first by Theseus.
She had a statue in the temple of Venus Praxis at Megara. _Cicero_,
_Brutus_, bk. 15.――_Pausanias_, bk. 1, chs. 22 & 43; bk. 9, ch. 35.
=Suana=, a town of Etruria.
=Suardones=, a people of Germany. _Tacitus_, _Germania_, ch. 40.
=Suasa=, a town of Umbria.
=Subatrii=, a people of Germany, over whom Drusus triumphed. _Strabo_,
bk. 7.
=Subi=, a small river of Catalonia.
=Sublicius=, the first bridge erected at Rome over the Tiber. _See:_
Pons.
=Submontorium=, a town of Vindelicia, now _Augsburg_.
=Subota=, small islands at the east of Athos. _Livy_, bk. 44, ch. 28.
=Subur=, a river of Mauritania.――――A town of Spain.
=Suburra=, a street in Rome where all the licentious, dissolute, and
lascivious Romans and courtesans resorted. It was situate between
mount Viminalis and Quirinalis, and was remarkable as having been the
residence of the obscurer years of Julius Cæsar. _Suetonius_, _Cæsar_.
――_Varro_, _de Lingua Latina_, bk. 4, ch. 8.――_Martial_, bk. 8,
ltr. 66.――_Juvenal_, satire 3, li. 5.
=Sucro=, now _Xucar_, a river of Hispania Tarraconensis, celebrated
for a battle fought there between Sertorius and Pompey, in which
the former obtained the victory. _Plutarch._――――A Rutulian killed by
Æneas. _Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 12, li. 505.
=Sudertum=, a town of Etruria. _Livy_, bk. 26, ch. 23.
=Suessa=, a town of Campania, called also _Aurunca_, to distinguish
it from Suessa Pometia, the capital of the Volsci. _Strabo_, bk. 5.
――_Pliny_, bk. 3, ch. 5.――_Dionysius of Halicarnassus_, bk. 4.
――_Livy_, bks. 1 & 2.――_Virgil_, _Æneid_, bk. 6, li. 775.――_Cicero_,
_Philippics_, bk. 3, ch. 4; bk. 4, ch. 2.
=Suessitani=, a people of Spain. _Livy_, bk. 25, ch. 34.
=Suessŏnes=, a powerful nation of Belgic Gaul, reduced by Julius Cæsar.
_Cæsar_, _Gallic War_, bk. 2.
=Suessula=, a town of Campania. _Livy_, bk. 7, ch. 37; bk. 23, ch. 14.