Sysimethres, a Persian satrap, who had two children by his mother, an incestuous commerce tolerated by the laws of Persia. He opposed Alexander with 2000 men, but soon surrendered. He was greatly honoured by the conqueror. Curtius, bk. 8, ch. 4.
Sysinas, the elder son of Datames, who revolted from his father to Artaxerxes.
Sythas, a river of Peloponnesus, flowing through Sicyonia into the bay of Corinth. Pausanias, bk. 2, ch. 7.
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Taautes, a Phœnician deity, the same as the Saturn of the Latins, and probably the Thoth, or Thaut, the Mercury of the Egyptians. Cicero, de Natura Deorum, bk. 3, ch. 22.—Varro.
Tabæ, a town of Pisidia. Livy, bk. 38, ch. 13.
Tabellariæ leges, laws made by suffrages delivered upon tables (tabellæ), and not vivâ voce. There were four of these laws, the Gabinia lex, A.U.C. 614, by Gabinius; the Cassia, by Cassius, A.U.C. 616; the Papiria, by Carbo, A.U.C. 622; and the Cælia, by Cælius, A.U.C. 646. Cicero, de Legibus, bk. 3, ch. 16.
Tabernæ novæ, a street in Rome where shops were built. Livy, bk. 3, ch. 48.——Rhenanæ, a town of Germany on the confluence of the Felbach and the Rhine, now Rhin-Zabern.——Riguæ, now Bern-Castel, on the Moselle.——Triboccorum, a town of Alsace in France, now Saverne.
Tabor, a mountain of Palestine.