Samĭdas, 49.
Samos, an island in the Aegean, 192, 224.
Sappho, the great woman lyric poet, a Lesbian, of the seventh century,
87, 104.
Sardis, the capital of Lydia, 192.
Satilaeans, 194.
Scythians, 189, 234.
Scythīnus, of Teos, an iambic poet of unknown date, 96.
Seleucus, king of Syria, assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus in 280: 189.
Selīnus, a Greek colony on the S.W. coast of Sicily, 92.
Selymbria, a town of Thrace, on the Propontis, 187.
Semĕlē, the mother of Dionysus (Bacchus), 209.
Serapion, or Sarapion, an Athenian poet, to whom the First Pythian
Dialogue is inscribed, and a speaker in the Second.
Serāpis, an Egyptian deity, 107.
Shining-One, the, a name for the planet Cronus (Saturn), 300.
Sibylla, the Sibyl, the name of an early prophetess of Delphi; in later
times an official title, also applied to other prophetic women,
localized in various countries, 87, 89, 90, 95, 104, 211.
Siceliot, of the Greek colonies in Sicily, 99.
Sicily, 18, 99, 140, 184.
Sicyon, on the south shore of the Corinthian gulf, 95, 184.
Simmias, a Theban, a companion of Socrates, and (with Cebes) present at
his death (see the _Crito_ and _Phaedo_ of Plato), 8, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 27, 32, 41, 42, 43.
Simonĭdēs of Ceos, a lyric poet (556-467), 97, 190.
Sisyphus, a knavish king of Corinth; some accounts make him father of
Odysseus: 185.
Skotios, ‘of darkness’, i. e. Hades (Pluto), 77.
Socrates, of Athens (d. 399), 7, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 32, 35, 40, 95,
104, 180, 288.
Soli, a city of Cilicia, 149, 205.
Solon, 638-558, the Athenian law-giver; one of the ‘Seven Wise Men’,
61, 179.
Solymi, a people of Lycia, 138.
_Sophistés_, a Dialogue of Plato’s later period, 71.
Sophists, the, 196.
Sophocles, 495-405, tragic poet of Athens, 78, 103 _n._, 106, 125, 132,
266, 290 _n._
Sōphrōn (latter part of fifth century), a mime-writer of Syracuse, 63.
Sparta, 11, 29, 88, 91, 106, 194, 200.
Sparti, the, ‘sown men’, the armed men who sprang up out of the ground
at Thebes, when Cadmus sowed the dragon’s teeth, 82.
Spinthărus, 40.
Sporădes, the, a group of islands, off Britain, 135.
Statuaries, street of the, 17.
Stesichŏrus (Tisias), 632-560, lyric poet of Himera in Sicily, 78, 188,
282.
_Stheneboea_, a play of Euripides, 104 _n._
Stilbon (the planet Mercury), 154, 268.
Stoics, the, 136, 146, 147, 264, 266, 285.
Strabo, cognomen of the father of Pompey the Great, 185.
Stratonīcē, 95.
Styx, 37, 38, 97, 225.
Suitors, the, i.e. of Penelope, 140.
Sybaris, a Greek town of Lucania in South Italy, 193, 196.
Syēnē (Assouan), taken by Eratosthenes to be directly under the sun at
the summer solstice, 119, 296.
Sylla, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.
Symbŏlum, the, 16.
Syracuse, 88, 193, 197.
Syrian goddess (Cybele?), 233.