Sinōpe, a daughter of the Asopus by Methron. She was beloved by Apollo, who carried her away to the border of the Euxine sea, in Asia Minor, where she gave birth to a son called Syrus. Diodorus, bk. 4.——A seaport town of Asia Minor, in Pontus, now Sinah, founded or rebuilt by a colony of Milesians. It was long an independent state, till Pharnaces king of Pontus seized it. It was the capital of Pontus, under Mithridates, and was the birthplace of Diogenes the cynic philosopher. It received its name from Sinope, whom Apollo carried there. Ovid, ex Ponto, bk. 1, poem 3, li. 67.—Strabo, bks. 2 & 12.—Diodorus, bk. 4.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 19.——The original name of Sinuessa.
Sinorix, a governor of Gaul, &c. Polyænus, bk. 8.
Sintice, a district of Macedonia.
Sintii, a nation of Thracians, who inhabited Lemnos, when Vulcan fell there from heaven. Homer, Iliad, bk. 1, li. 594.
Sinuessa, a maritime town of Campania, originally called Sinope. It was celebrated for its hot baths and mineral waters, which cured people of insanity, and rendered women prolific. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 15, li. 715.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.—Strabo, bk. 5.—Livy, bk. 22, ch. 13.—Martial, bk. 6, ltr. 42; bk. 11, ltr. 8.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 12.
Sion, one of the hills on which Jerusalem was built.
Siphnos, now Sifano, one of the Cyclades, situate at the west of Paros, 20 miles in circumference, according to Pliny, or, according to modern travellers, 40. Siphnos had many excellent harbours, and produced great plenty of delicious fruit. The inhabitants were so depraved, that their licentiousness became proverbial. They, however, behaved with spirit in the Persian wars, and refused to give earth and water to the emissaries of Xerxes in token of submission. There were some gold mines in Siphnos, of which Apollo demanded a tenth part. When the inhabitants refused to continue to offer part of their gold to the god of Delphi, the island was inundated, and the mines disappeared. The air was so wholesome that many of the natives lived to their 120th year. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 11.—Herodotus, bk. 8, ch. 46.—Mela, bk. 1, ch. 7.—Strabo, bk. 10.
Sipontum, Sipus, or Sepus, a maritime town in Apulia in Italy, founded by Diomedes after his return from the Trojan war. Strabo, bk. 6.—Lucan, bk. 5, li. 377.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 4.
Sipy̆lum and Sipy̆lus, a town of Lydia, with a mountain of the same name near the Meander, formerly called Ceraunius. The town was destroyed by an earthquake, with 12 others in the neighbourhood, in the reign of Tiberius. Strabo, bks. 1 & 2.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 20.—Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 5.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 24.—Hyginus, fable 9.—Tacitus, Annals, bk. 2, ch. 47.——One of Niobe’s children, killed by Apollo. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 6, fable 6.
Sirbo, a lake between Egypt and Palestine, now Sebaket Bardoil. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 13.