Stubera, a town of Macedonia, between the Axius and Erigon. Livy, bk. 31, ch. 39.
Stura, a river of Cisalpine Gaul, falling into the Po.
Sturni, a town of Calabria.
Stymphālia, or Stymphālis, a part of Macedonia. Livy, bk. 45, ch. 30.——A surname of Diana.
Stymphālus, a king of Arcadia, son of Elatus and Laodice. He made war against Pelops, and was killed in a truce. Apollodorus, bk. 3, ch. 9.—Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 4.——A town, river, lake, and fountain of Arcadia, which receives its name from king Stymphalus. The neighbourhood of the lake Stymphalus was infested with a number of voracious birds, like cranes or storks, which fed upon human flesh, and which were called Stymphalides. They were at last destroyed by Hercules, with the assistance of Minerva. Some have confounded them with the Harpies, while others pretend that they never existed but in the imagination of the poets. Pausanias, however, supports that there were carnivorous birds like the Stymphalides, in Arabia. Pausanias, bk. 8, ch. 4.—Statius, Thebaid, bk. 4, li. 298.——A lofty mountain of Peloponnesus in Arcadia.
Stygne, a daughter of Danaus. Statius, Sylvæ, bk. 4, poem 6.—Apollodorus.
Styra, a town of Eubœa.
Stȳrus, a king of Albania, to whom Æetes promised his daughter Medea in marriage, to obtain his assistance against the Argonauts. Flaccus, bk. 3, li. 497; bk. 8, li. 358.
Styx, a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. She married Pallas, by whom she had three daughters, Victory, Strength, and Valour. Hesiod, Theogony, lis. 363 & 384.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 2.——A celebrated river of hell, round which it flows nine times. According to some writers, the Styx was a small river of Nonacris in Arcadia, whose waters were so cold and venomous, that they proved fatal to such as tasted them. Among others, Alexander the Great is mentioned as a victim to their fatal poison, in consequence of drinking them. They even consumed iron, and broke all vessels. The wonderful properties of this water suggested the idea that it was a river of hell, especially when it disappeared in the earth a little below its fountain head. The gods held the waters of the Styx in such veneration, that they always swore by them; an oath which was inviolable. If any of the gods had perjured themselves, Jupiter obliged them to drink the waters of the Styx, which lulled them for one whole year into a senseless stupidity; for the nine following years they were deprived of the ambrosia and the nectar of the gods, and after the expiration of the years of their punishment, they were restored to the assembly of the deities, and to all their original privileges. It is said that this veneration was shown to the Styx, because it received its name from the nymph Styx, who, with her three daughters, assisted Jupiter in his war against the Titans. Hesiod, Theogony, lis. 384, 775.—Homer, Odyssey, bk. 10, li. 513.—Herodotus, bk. 6, ch. 74.—Virgil, Æneid, bk. 6, lis. 323, 439, &c.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 3.—Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 3, li. 29, &c.—Lucan, bk. 6, li. 378, &c.—Pausanias, bk. 8, chs. 17 & 18.—Curtius, bk. 10, ch. 10.
Suada, the goddess of persuasion, called Pitho by the Greeks. She had a form of worship established to her honour first by Theseus. She had a statue in the temple of Venus Praxis at Megara. Cicero, Brutus, bk. 15.—Pausanias, bk. 1, chs. 22 & 43; bk. 9, ch. 35.