[♦] ‘Sida’ replaced with ‘Siga’
Sigæum, or Sigēum, now cape Incihisari, a town of Troas, on a promontory of the same name, where the Scamander falls into the sea, extending six miles along the shore. It was near Sigæum that the greatest part of the battles between the Greeks and Trojans were fought, as Homer mentions, and there Achilles was buried. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 2, li. 312; bk. 7, li. 294.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 12, li. 71.—Lucan, bk. 9, li. 962.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 18.—Strabo, bk. 13.—Dictys Cretensis, bk. 5, ch. 12.
Signia, an ancient town of Latium, whose inhabitants were called Signini. The wine of Signia was used by the ancients for medicinal purposes. Martial, bk. 13, ltr. 116.——A mountain of Phrygia. Pliny, bk. 5, ch. 29.
Sigovessus, a prince among the Celtæ, in the reign of Tarquin. Livy, bk. 5, ch. 34.
Sigȳni, Sigunæ, or Sigynnæ, a nation of European Scythia, beyond the Danube. Herodotus, bk. 5, ch. 9.
Sila, or Syla, a large wood in the country of the Brutii near the Apennines, abounding in much pitch. Strabo, bk. 6.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 713.
Silāna Julia, a woman at the court of Nero, remarkable for her licentiousness and impurities. She married Caius Julius, by whom she was divorced.
Decimus Silānus, a son of Titus Manlius Torquatus, accused of extortion in the management of the province of Macedonia. The father himself desired to hear the complaints laid against his son, and after he had spent two days in examining the charges of the Macedonians, he pronounced on the third day his son guilty of extortion, and unworthy to be called a citizen of Rome. He also banished him from his presence, and so struck was the son at the severity of his father, that he hanged himself on the following night. Livy, bk. 54.—Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum.—Valerius Maximus, bk. 5, ch. 8.——Caius Junius, a consul under Tiberius, accused of extortion, and banished to the island of Cythere. Tacitus.——Marcus, a lieutenant of Cæsar’s armies in Gaul.——The father-in-law of Caligula. Suetonius, Caligula, ch. 22.——A propretor in Spain, who routed the Carthaginian forces there, while Annibal was in Italy.——Turpilius, a lieutenant of Metellus against Jugurtha. He was accused by Marius, though totally innocent, and condemned by the malice of his judges.——Torquatus, a man put to death by Nero.——Lucius, a man betrothed to Octavia the daughter of Claudius. Nero took Octavia away from him, and on the day of her nuptials, [♦]Silanus killed himself.——An augur in the army of the 10,000 Greeks, at their return from Cunaxa.
[♦] ‘Salinus’ replaced with ‘Silanus’
Sĭlărus, a river of Picenum, rising in the Apennine mountains, and falling into the Tyrrhene sea. Its waters, as it is reported, petrified all leaves that fell into it. Strabo, bk. 5.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 3, li. 146.—Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 103.—Silius Italicus, bk. 2, li. 582.