Samarobriva, a town of Gaul, now Amiens, in Picardy.
Sambūlos, a mountain near Mesopotamia, where Hercules was worshipped. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12, ch. 13.
Sambus, an Indian king defeated by Alexander. Diodorus, bk. 17.——A river of India.
Same, or Samos, a small island in the Ionian [♦]sea near Ithaca, called also Cephallenia. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 271.
[♦] ‘sear’ replaced with ‘sea’
Samia, a daughter of the river Mæander. Pausanias, bk. 7, ch. 4.——A surname of Juno, because she was worshipped at Samos.
Samnītæ, or Amnitæ, a people of Gaul.
Samnītes, a people of Italy, who inhabited the country situate between Picenum, Campania, Apulia, and ancient Latium. They distinguished themselves by their implacable hatred against the Romans, in the first ages of that empire, till they were at last totally extirpated, B.C. 272, after a war of 71 years. Their chief town was called Samnium, or Samnis. Livy, bk. 7, &c.—Florus, bk. 1, ch. 16, &c.; bk. 3, ch. 18.—Strabo, bk. 5.—Lucan, bk. 2.—Eutropius, bk. 2.
Samnium, a town and part of Italy inhabited by the Samnites. See: [Samnites].
Samochonites, a small lake of Palestine.