Spina, now Primaso, a town on the most southern mouth of the Po. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 16.
Spintharus, a Corinthian architect, who built Apollo’s temple at Delphi. Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 5.——A freedman of Cicero. Letters to Atticus, bk. 13, ltr. 25.
Spinther, a Roman consul. He was one of Pompey’s friends, and accompanied him at the battle of Pharsalia, where he betrayed his meanness by being too confident of victory, and contending for the possession of Cæsar’s offices and gardens before the action. Plutarch.
Spio, one of the Nereides. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 5, li. 26.
Spitamĕnes, one of the officers of king Darius, who conspired against the murderer Bessus, and delivered him to Alexander. Curtius, bk. 7, ch. 5.
Spithobătes, a satrap of Ionia, son-in-law of Darius. He was killed at the battle of the Granicus. Diodorus, bk. 17.
Spithridates, a Persian killed by Clitus as he was going to strike Alexander dead.——A Persian satrap in the age of Lysander.
Spoletium, now Spoleto, a town of Umbria, which bravely withstood Annibal while he was in Italy. The people were called Spoletani. Water is conveyed to the town from a neighbouring [♦]fountain by an aqueduct of such a great height, that in one place the top is raised above the foundation 230 yards. An inscription over the gates still commemorates the defeat of Annibal. Martial, bk. 13, ltr. 20.
[♦] ‘fountani’ replaced with ‘fountain’
Spŏrădes, a number of islands in the Ægean sea. They received their name à σπειρω, spargo, because they are scattered in the sea at some distance from Delos, and in the neighbourhood of Crete. Those islands that are contiguous to Delos, and that encircle it, are called Cyclades. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Strabo, bk. 2.