[♦] ‘Suovi’ replaced with ‘Suevi’
Suevius, a Latin poet in the age of Ennius.
Suffetala, an inland town of Mauritania.
Suffēnus, a Latin poet in the age of Catullus. He was but of moderate abilities, but puffed up with a high idea of his own excellence, and therefore deservedly exposed to the ridicule of his contemporaries. Catullus, poem 22.
Suffetius, or Suftius. See: [Metius].
Suidas, a Greek writer who flourished A.D. 1100. The best edition of his excellent Lexicon is that of Kuster, 3 vols., folio, Cambridge. 1705.
Publius Suilius, an informer in the court of Claudius, banished under Nero, by means of Seneca, and sent to the Baleares. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 14, ch. 42, &c.——Cæsorinus, a guilty favourite of Messalina. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 11, ch. 36.
Suiones, a nation of Germany, supposed the modern Swedes. Tacitus, Germania, ch. 44.
Sulchi, a town at the south of Sardinia. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Claudian, Gildonic War, li. 518.—Strabo, bk. 5.
Sulcius, an informer whom Horace describes as hoarse with the number of defamations which he daily gave. Horace, bk. 1, satire 4, li. 65.