Stellates, a field remarkable for its fertility, in Campania. Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, bk. 1, ch. 70.—Suetonius, Cæsar, ch. 20.
Stellio, a youth turned into an elf by Ceres, because he derided the goddess, who drank with avidity when tired and afflicted in her vain pursuit of her daughter Proserpine. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 5, li. 445.
Stena, a narrow passage on the mountains near Antigonia, in Chaonia. Livy, bk. 32, ch. 5.
Stenobœa. See: [Sthenobœa].
Stenocrătes, an Athenian who conspired to murder the commander of the garrison which Demetrius had placed in the citadel, &c. Polyænus, bk. 5.
Stentor, one of the Greeks who went to the Trojan war. His voice alone was louder than that of 50 men together. Homer, Iliad, bk. 5, li. 784.—Juvenal, satire 13, li. 112.
Stentoris lacus, a lake near Enos in Thrace. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 58.
Stephănus, a musician of Media, upon whose body Alexander made an experiment in burning a certain sort of bitumen called naphtha. Strabo, bk. 16.—Plutarch, Alexander.——A Greek writer of Byzantium, known for his dictionary giving an account of the towns and places of the ancient world, of which the best edition is that of Gronovius, 2 vols., folio, Leiden, 1694.
Sterŏpe, one of the Pleiades, daughters of Atlas. She married Œnomaus king of Pisa, by whom she had Hippodamia, &c.——A daughter of Parthaon, supposed by some to be the mother of the Sirens.——A daughter of Cepheus.——A daughter of Pleuron,——of Acastus,——of Danaus,——of Cebrion.
Sterŏpes, one of the Cyclops. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 8, li. 425.