Susarion, a Greek poet of Megara, who is supposed, with Dolon, to be the inventor of comedy, and to have first introduced it at Athens on a movable stage, B.C. 562.
Susiāna, or Susis, a country of Asia, of which the capital was called Susa, situate at the east of Assyria. Lilies grow in great abundance in Susiana, and it is from that plant that the province received its name, according to some, as Susan is the name of a lily in Hebrew.
Susidæ pylæ, narrow passes over mountains, from Susiana into Persia. Curtius, bk. 5, ch. 3.
Suthul, a town of Numidia, where the king’s treasures were kept. Sallust, Jugurthine War, ch. 37.
Sutrium, a town of Etruria, about 24 miles north-west of Rome. Some suppose that the phrase Ire Sutrium, to act with despatch, arises from the celerity with which Camillus recovered the place, but Festus explains it differently. Plautus, Casina, act 3, scen 1, li. 10.—Livy, bk. 26, ch. 34.—Paterculus, bk. 1, ch. 14.—Livy, bk. 9, ch. 32.
Syagrus, an ancient poet, the first who wrote on the Trojan war. He is called Segaris, by Diogenes Laërtius, who adds that he lived in Homer’s age, of whom he was the rival. Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 14, ch. 21.
Sybăris, a river of Lucania in Italy, whose waters were said to render men more strong and robust. Strabo, bk. 6.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 11; bk. 31, ch. 2.——There was a town of the same name on its banks on the bay of Tarentum, which had been founded by a colony of Achæans. Sybaris became very powerful, and in its most flourishing situation it had the command of four neighbouring nations, of 25 towns, and could send an army of 300,000 men into the field. The walls of the city were said to extend six miles and a half in circumference, and the suburbs covered the banks of the Crathis for the space of seven miles. It made a long and vigorous resistance against the neighbouring town of Crotona, till it was at last totally reduced by the disciples of Pythagoras, B.C. 501. Sybaris was destroyed no less than five times, and always repaired. In a more recent age the inhabitants became so effeminate, that the word Sybarise became proverbial to intimate a man devoted to pleasure. There was a small town built in the neighbourhood about 444 years before the christian era, and called Thurium, from a small fountain called Thuria, where it was built. Diodorus, bk. 12.—Strabo, bk. 6.—Ælian, Varia Historia, bk. 9, ch. 24.—Martial, bk. 12, ltr. 96.—Plutarch, Pelopidas, &c.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 10, &c.——A friend of Æneas, killed by Turnus. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 12, li. 363.——A youth enamoured of Lydia, &c. Horace, bk. 1, ode 8, li. 2.
Sybarīta, an inhabitant of Sybaris. See: [Sybaris].
Sybota, a harbour of Epirus. Cicero, bk. 5, Letters to Atticus, ltr. 9.—Strabo, bk. 7.
Sybŏtas, a king of the Messenians in the age of Lycurgus the Spartan legislator. Pausanias, bk. 4, ch. 4.