A classical dictionary / containing a copious account of all the proper names mentioned in ancient authors with tables of coins, weights, and measures used among the Greeks and Romans and a chronological table

by John Lemprière

Zosine, the wife of king Tigranes, led in triumph by Pompey. Plutarch.

Zoster, a town, harbour, and promontory of Attica. Cicero, Letters to Atticus, bk. 5, ltr. 12.

Zosteria, a surname of Minerva. She had two statues under that name in the city of Thebes, in Bœotia. The word signified girt, or armed for battle, words synonymous among the ancients. Pausanias, bk. 9, ch. 17.—Homer, Iliad, bk. 2, li. 478; bk. 11, li. 15.

Zotale, a place near Antiochia in Margiana, where the Margus was divided into small streams. Pliny, bk. 6, ch. 16.

Zothraustes, a lawgiver among the Arimaspi. Diodorus.

Zuchis, a lake to the east of the Syrtis Minor, with a town of the same name, famous for a purple dye, and salt-fish. Strabo, bk. 17.

Zygantes, a people of Africa.

Zygia, a surname of Juno, because she presided over marriage (a ζευγνυμι jungo). She is the same as the Pronuba of the Latins. Pindar.—Pollux, bk. 3, ch. 3.

Zygii, a savage nation at the north of Colchis. Strabo, bk. 11.

Zygopŏlis, a town of Cappadocia, on the borders of Colchis. Strabo, bk. 12.