A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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Cassius Longinns, one of Caesar's legates. He was and condemned to deportatio in insulanl. In the
pardoned by Caesar after the battle of Pharsalia, civil wars which followed Nero's death he returned
and appears to have succeeded his father in the to Rome, but was again condemned by the senate
sovereignty about this time. He died in B.c. 42, to his former punishment, A. D. 70. (Tac. Ann.
leaving his dominions to the Romans (Caes; B. C. xiii. 44, Hist. iv. 44.)
iii. 4; Lucan, v. 54; Dion Cass. xli. 51, 63, xlvii. SAITIS (EaTh'Ls), a surname of Athena, under
25). Cicero, in his orations against Verres, B.c. 70, which she had a sanctuary on Mount Pontinus,
speaks of a king Sadala (Verr. Act. i. 24). This near Lerna in Argolis. (Paus. ii. 36 in fin.;
Sadala was in all probability the father of Cotys, comp. Herod. ii. 175 5; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 111.)
and the grandfather of the Sadales mentioned The name was traced by the Greeks to the Egypabove. tians, among whom Athena was said to have been
SA'DOCUS (:6oKtos), son of Sitalces, king called SaYs. [L. S.]
of Thrace, was made a citizen of Athens, in B. c. SALA'CIA, the female divinity of the sea
431, when the Athenians formed an alliance with among the Romans, and the wife of Neptune.
his father. In the following year, the Athenian (Varro, De Ling. Lat. v. 72; ap. A ugust. De Civ.
envoys at the court of Sitalces persuaded Sadocus Dei, vii. 22; Serv. ad Aen. i. 144, x. 76.) The
to deliver up to them Aristeus and the other am- name is evidently connected with sal (a'As), and
bassadors, who were passing through Thrace on accordingly denotes the wide, open sea. Servius
their way to Asia, to ask the aid of the Persian (ad Aen. i. 720) declares the name Salacia to be
king against Athens (Thucyd. ii. 29, 67; comp. only a surname of Venus, while in another passage
Herod. vii. 137; Arist. Ach. 145, &c.). The name (ad Georg. i. 31) he observes, that Cicero, in his
occurs as UaioiKos in the Scholiast on Aristophanes Timaeus, applied the name to the Greek Tethys,
(I.c.). [E. E.] which we cannot wonder at, since the natural
SADYATTES (1anvd'TTr71), a king of Lydia, tendency was to identify Salacia with some Greek
succeeded his father Ardys, and reigned from B. C. marine divinity. (Comp. Cic. de Univers. 11;
630 to 618. He carried on war with the Milesians Gellius, xiii. 22; August. 1. c. iv. 10.) [L. S.]
for six years, and at his death bequeathed the war SALACON, a name given by Cicero to Tigelto his son and successor, Alyattes. [ALYATTES.] lius. It is not a proper name, as solne editors
(Herod. i. 16, 18). Nicolaus Damascenus relates think, but the Greek word oaaAKicov, a swaggerer.
(p. 52, ed. Orelli) a tale of this king, calling him SALAETHUS (caialaeos), a Lacedaemonian,
by mistake a son of Alyattes. who, early in B. c. 427, when Mytilene had reL. SAE'NIUS, a senator at the time of the volted from Athens, and had been received into
Catilinarian conspiracy, B. C. 63 (Sall. Cat. 30). the Spartan alliance, was sent thither to give
We find in the Fasti one of the consules suffecti promise of aid, and contrived to make his way
for B. C. 30, with the name of L. Saenius, who was into the city through the Athenian lines, where
probably the same person as the senator. Appian they were interrupted by the bed of a torrent.
says (B. C. iv. 50), that a certain Balbinus was The expected succour, however, was so long in
consul in B. C. 30, in which year the conspiracy of coming, that Salaethus himself at last despaired
the younger Lepidus was detected by Maecenas. of it; and in order to increase the effective force
Now as the Fasti do not mention a consul of the of the besieged, he ventured to entrust the comname of Balbinus, it has been conjectured with mons with the full armour of the regular infantry.
much probability that Balbinus was the cognomen The consequence was that they broke out into
of L. Saenius. Appian further states (I. c.) that insurrection, and the oligarchical party, fearing lest
Balbinlus was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, they should capitulate apart for themselves, saw no
and restored with Sex. Pompey. The senatus resource but in the surrender of the city to the
consultum, by which Augustus made a number of Athenians. Salaethus concealed himself, but was
persons patricians, is called Lex Saenia by Tacitus taken; and, together with the chief instigators of
(Ann. xi. 25). Dion Cassius (lii. 42) speaks of the revolt, was sent to Athens. Here he tried to
the addition to the patricians as taking place in save his life by making great offers, engaging in
B.C. 29, but the name of the I Saenia shows particular to prevail on the Lacedaemonians to
that the authority of the senate was obtained at abandon the siege of Plataea. The people, howthe latter end of the preceding year in the consul- ever, paid no regard to his promises, and sentenced
ship of Saenius. him to immediate execution. (Thucyd. iii. 25, 27,
SAE'VIUS NICA'NOR. [NICANOR.] 28, 35. 36.) [E. E.]
SAFI'NIUS ATELLA, a person for whom SA'LAMIS (eahagls), a daughter of Asopis,
Staienus bribed the judices, as he subsequently and by Poseidon the mother of Cenchreus or
did in the case of Cluentius. (Cic. pro Cluent. Cychreus. (Pans. i. 35. ~ 2; Apollod. iii. 12.
25, 36.) ~7; Diod. iv. 72.) From her the island of
SAGARI'TIS, a nymph in whose embraces Salamis was believed by the ancients to have reAttis became fitithless to Cybele; the goddess ceived its name. [L. S.]
aveliged the wrong done to her by causing the Q. SALASSUS, a frater of the P. Curtius who
tree with which the nymph's life was connected, was put to death in Spain, in B. c. 45, by order of
to be cut down. (Ov. Fast. iv. 229.) [L. S.] Cn.Poinpeius,thesonof M:gnus. [CIRTIUS, No.4.]
SAGI1TTA, CLAU'DIUS, praefectus of an ala, (Cic. ad Fain. vi. 18). He is probably the same
hurried to L. Piso in Africa, at the beginning of person as the Vettius Salassus, who was proscribed
A. D. 70, to inform him that his death was resolved by the triumnvirs in B. c. 43, and threw himself
upon. (Tac. Hist. iv. 49.) [PIso, No. 26.] headlong from the roof of a house, when he saw
SAGITTA, OCTA'VIUS, tribune of the plebs, his own wife conducting the assassins to him.
A. D. 58, murdered his mistress, Pontia Postumia, (Appian, B. C. iv. 24; Val. Max. ix. 11. ~ 7.)
because she had refused to marry him after promising S ALEITIS BASSUS. [BAssUs.]
to do so. He was accused by the father of Pontia, SALGANEUS (naAyaaeu's), a surname of
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