Stratos, a city of Æolia. Livy, bk. 36, ch. 11.——Of Acarnania.
Strenua, a goddess at Rome, who gave vigour and energy to the weak and indolent. Augustine, City of God, bk. 4, chs. 11 & 16.
Strongy̆le, now Strombolo, one of the islands called Æolides in the Tyrrhene sea, near the coast of Sicily. It has a volcano, 10 miles in circumference, which throws up flame continually, and of which the crater is on the side of the mountain. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Strabo, bk. 6.—Pausanias, bk. 10, ch. 11.
Strophădes, two islands in the Ionian sea, on the western coasts of the Peloponnesus. They were anciently called Plotæ, and received the name of Strophades from στρεφω, verto, because Zethes and Calais, the sons of Boreas, returned from thence by order of Jupiter, after they had driven the Harpies there from the tables of Phineus. The fleet of Æneas stopped near the Strophades. The largest of these two islands is not above five miles in circumference. Hyginus, fable 19.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 13, li. 709.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 210.—Strabo, bk. 8.
Strophius, a son of Crisus king of Phocis. He married a sister of Agamemnon, called Anaxibia, or Astyochia, or, according to others, Cyndragora, by whom he had Pylades, celebrated for his friendship with Orestes. After the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Ægisthus, the king of Phocis educated at his own house, with the greatest care, his nephew, whom Electra had secretly removed from the dagger of his mother and her adulterer. Orestes was enabled, by means of Strophius, to revenge the death of his father. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 29.—Hyginus, fables 1, 17.——A son of Pylades by Electra the sister of Orestes.
Struthophăgi, a people of Æthiopia, who fed on sparrows, as their name signifies.
Struthus, a general of Artaxerxes against the Lacedæmonians, B.C. 393.
Stryma, a town of Thrace, founded by a Thasian colony. Herodotus, bk. 7, ch. 109.
Strymno, a daughter of the Scamander, who married Laomedon. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 12.
Strymon, a river which separates Thrace from Macedonia, and falls into a part of the Ægean sea, which has been called Strymonicus sinus. A number of cranes, as the poets say, resorted on its banks in the summer time. Its eels were excellent. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 2.—Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 5.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 1, li. 120; bk. 4, li. 508; Æneid, bk. 10, li. 265.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 2, li. 251.