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

706 SANNYRION. SAOTERUS.
porary with Alexander, to a degree of approxima- bringing out his comedies in other persons' names.
tion that cannot possibly be the work of accident." (Schol. ad Plat. p. 331, ed. Bekker; comp. PHiI(See also Sir W. Jones, in Asiatic Researches, LONIDES.)
vol. iv. p. 11; Schlegel, Indische Bibliothek, vol. i. The following are mentioned as his dramas by
p. 245, &c.; Lassen, De Pentapotamia, p. 61; Suidas (s. v.): —Te'Aw, Aava77, W'I, YIlXasTa; but
Droysen, Hellenisnmus, vol. i. p. 519, &c., vol. ii. the reference which Suidas proceeds to make to
p. 68.) Athenaeus, as his authority, proves that lie has
SANGA, Q. FAIB1US, the patronus of the got the last title by a careless reading of the passage
Allobroges, was the person to whom the ambas- above quoted, in which Athenaeus says that Sansadors of the Allobroges disclosed the treasonable nyrion was ridiculed in the Psychastae of Strattis.
designs of the Catilinarian conspirators. Sanga Eudocia (p. 382) omits the Aava', and adds the
communicated the intelligence to Cicero, who was'Ivw and eapsavcirraAXos, of which there is no other
thus enabled to obtain the evidence which led to mention made. A few scattered lines are preserved
the apprehension and execution of Lentulus and from the TeoAws, and a fragment of five lines from
his associates, B. C. 63. Q. Sanga is mentioned as the AavadrV, in which he ridicules, as Aristophanes
one of the friends of Cicero who besought the con- also does in the Frogs (305), Hegelochus's prosul L. Piso, in B. c. 58, not to support Clodius in nunciation of the word'ycidr/', in a line of the
his measures against Cicero. (Sall. Cat. 41; Ap- Orestes of Euripides (Schol. ad E urip. et Aristoph.
pian, B. C. ii. 4; Cic. in Pis. 31.) II. cc.). There are a few words from the lo in
SANGA'RIUS (:ayyaiptor), a river-god, is Athenaeus (vi. p. 261, f.). The Danai' and lo
described as the son of Oceanus and Tethys, and evidently belong, in subject, to the Middle Comedy,
as the husband of Metope, by whom he became although, from the circumstance just mentioned,
the father of Hecabe. (Hes. Theog. 344; Apollod. the date of the former cannot be placed much lower
iii. 12. ~ 5.) The river Sangarius (in Phrygia) than B. c. 407. (Meineke, Frag. Comn. Graec. vol.
itself is said to have derived its name from one i. pp. 263, 264, vol. ii. pp. 873-875; Bergk,
Sangas, who had offended Rhea, and was punished Reliq. Comoed. Att. Ant. p. 430; Bode, Gesch. d.
by her by being changed into water. (Schol. ad Hellen. DichtkzLnst, vol. iii. pt. 2, p. 387.) [P. S.]
Apollon. Rhod. ii. 722.) [L. S.] M. SANQUI'NIUS, a triumvir of the mint
SAINNIO, a name of the buffoon in the mimes under Augustus, whose name occurs only on coins,
(Cic. de Orat. ii. 61, ad Farm. ix. 16; ~ 10), is a specimen of which is annexed. The head on the
derived by Diodorus (Excerpta Vat. p. 129, ed. obverse with a star over it is supposed to be Julius
Dindorf) from a Latin who bore this name. This, Caesar's, though it does not bear much resemblance
however, is inadmissible: it comes from sanna to the heads of Caesar on other coins. The head
(Juv. vi. 306; Pers. i. 62, v. 91). The Italian of Augustus is on the reverse. This Sanquinius
Zanni (hence our Zusny) probably comes from was probably the father or grandfather of the SanSannio. qulinius Maximus, who is mentioned in the reigns
SANNY'RION (lapnuphov), an Athenian of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius. [MAx liUvs,
comic poet, belonging to the latter years of the SANQUINIUS.] (Eckhel, vol. v. p. 299.)
Old Comedy, and the beginning of the Middle.
He was contemporary with Diocles and Philyllius
(Suid. s. v. AiotcAis). Since he ridiculed the pro-'S
nunciation of Hegelochus, the actor of the Orestes es o 7
of Euripides, which was brought out in B. c. 408,
he must have been exhibiting comedies soon after
that year (Schol. ad Eurip. Orest. 279; Schol. ad Yt- ~
Aristopsh. Ran. 305; Clinton, F. H. vol. ii. s. a.
407, and Preface, p. xxix.). On the other hand, if
the comedy entitled Io, which is mentioned in the COIN OF M. SANQUINIUS.
didascalic monument (Bbckh, Corp. Inscr. vol. i.
p. 353) be the Io of Sannyrion, his age would be SANTRA, a Roman grammarian, of whom
brought down to B. c. 374. nothing is known, but whose opinions are freWe know nothing of his personal history, ex- quently cited by later grammarians, especially by
cept that his excessive leanness was ridiculed by Festus and his epitomist Paulus. The title of one
Strattis in his Cinesias and Psychastae (Pollux, of Santra's works was, De Verborum Antiquitate.
x. 189; Ath. xii. p. 551, c.; for explanations of (Charisins, p. 11]2; Scaurus, p. 2256; Festus,
the passages, see Meinleke, Frag. Comn. Graec. pp. 68, 170, 173, 194, 254, 277, 333, ed. Miiller.)
vol. ii. pp. 769, 785); and also by Aristophanes in SAOCONDA'RIUS, the son-in-law' of Deiothe Gerytades, where he and Meletus and Cinesias tarus. (Cic. pro Deiot. 11). [DEIOTARUs, No. 1.]
are chosen as ambassadors from the poets to the SAON (:acicv), a mythical lawgiver of Samoshades below, because, being shades themselves, thrace, is said to have been a son of Zeus by a
they were frequent visitants of that region (,do- nymph, or of Hermes by Rhene; he united the
4moZral, Ath. 1. c. a; comp. the editions of the scattered inhabitants of Samothrace into one state,
Fragrents by Bekker, Dindorf, and Bergk ap. which he regulated by laws. (Diod. v. 48.)
Meinleke). It is a proof of how lightly and good- Another mythical personage of the same name is
humopredly such jests were thrown about by the mentioned by Pausanias (ix. 40. ~ 2) as the discomic poets, that Sannyrion himself ridiculed Me- coverer of the oracle of Trophonius. [L. S.]
letus on precisely the same ground in his TE'Aws, SAOTERUS, of Nicomedeia, chamberlain to
calling him r'v dard A71,acou v vpoV (Atlh. 1. c.). Commodus, and at one time so great a favourite,
He also returned the compliment to Aristophanes, that he entered Rome sharing the triumphal chariot
by ridiculing him for spending his life in working with the emperor. He was eventually put to death
for others; referring doubtless to his habit of through the machinations of Cleander [CtEANDEI].