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728 SATYRUS. SAVERRIO.
lations with Athens, which he appears to have scene of the anecdote in Demosthenes being at
already found in existence, and which were still Olynthus, or he may have settled at Olynthus.
farther extended by his son Leucon [LEUcoN]. 3. Another flute-player, perhaps a descendant
His conduct in this respect, as related by Iso- of No. 1, of whom Aelian (1V H. xxxiii. 13) tells
crates, would lead us to form a favourable estimate us that, having often heard the lectures of the
of his character (Isocrat. Trapezit. pp. 359, 360, Stoic philosopher ARISTON of Chios, he became so
370; Lysias pro Jllantith. p. 145; Demosth. c. attached to the study of philosophy as often to be
Lept. p. 467). He was slain at the siege of Theu- tempted to devote his flutes to the fate with which
dosia in B. C. 393, and was succeeded by his son, Pandarus in Homer ([l. v. 215) threatens his
Leucon. (Diod. xiv. 93; Harpocration. v. ~Ev- bow and arrows.
boasrav.) 3. A distinguished Peripatetic philosopher and
2. SATYRUS II. was the eldest of the three historian, who lived in the time of Ptolemy Philosons of Paerisades I., and was in consequence ap- pator, if not later. He wrote a collection of biograpointed by his father to succeed him in the sove- phies, among which were lives of Philip and Demoreign power. But on the death of Paerisades (B. C. sthenes, and which is frequently cited by ancient
311), his second son Eumelus contested the crown writers. He also wrote on the population of
with his brother, and had recourse to the assist- Alexandria; and a work IIsp1 XapaKt7'pwy. (Vosance of Aripharnes, king of one of the neighbouring sius, de Hist. Graec. p. 495, ed. Westermann;
Scythian tribes, who supported him with a large Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 51, 504.)
army. Satyrus, however, defeated their combined 4. An epigrammatic poet, who is mentioned in
forces, and followed up his advantage by laying the titles to his epigrams in the Palatine and Plasiege to the capital of Aripharnes; but, while nudean Anthologies by the various names of
pressing the assault with vigour, he was himself Satyrius, Satyrus, Satyrus Thy;llb's, and Thy'llus
mortally wounded, and died immediately after, or Tlhyilus alone. Jacobs supposes the epigrams to
having reigned hardly nine months from his fa- be by two different persons, the one named
ther's death. (Diod. xx. 22, 23, 2C.) Satyrus and the other Thyillus. (Brunck, Anal.
It is probable that the Satyrus who is mentioned vol. ii. p. 276; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p. 252,
by Deinarchus (in Demosth. p. 95), among the xiii. pp. 949, 950.) [P. S.]
tyrants of Bosporus as early as B. C. 324, is the SA'TYRUS, artists. 1. One of the architects
same with the preceding, who may have been ad- of the celebrated Mausoleum, of which also he
mitted by his father to a share of the sovereign wrote a description. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. ~ 1-2;
power during his own lifetime. PHILES S; for an account of the building see the
3. There is a king of Bosporus of the name of art. Mausoleumn in the Diet. of A2tiq. 2d ed.)
Satyrus, mentioned by Polyaenus (viii. 55), as 2. An architect who lived in Egypt under
waging unsuccessful wars with Tirgatao, a queen Ptolemy Philadelphus, and to whom some ascribed
of the Ixomatae, who is probably distinct from the transport to its site and the erection of one
either of the preceding, as that author represents of the great obelisks. (Plin. H. N. xxxvi. 9. s.
him as dying of grief for his ill success, and being 14.) [P. S.]
succeeded by his son Gorgippus. But nothing is SA'TYRUS (ci'rvpos), a physician in the
known of the period to which these events are to second century after Christ, a pupil of Quintus
be referred. [E. H. B.] (Galen, De Anatom. Adnzin. i. 1, 2, vol. ii. pp.
SA'TYRUS (dcTrvpos), literary. 1. A cele-'217, 225; De Antid. i. 14, vol. xiv. p. 71; Coszbrated musician of Thebes, father of the flute- ment. in Hippocr. " De Nat. Horn." ii. 6, vol. xv.
player ANTIGENIDAS (Suid. s. v.'AvTryviaeas). p. 136; Comment. in Hippocr. "' Praedict. I" i. 5,
Since his son was the flute-player of Philoxenus, vol. xvi. p. 524; Comment. in Hippoer. " Epid.
Satyrus himself must have flourished about the III." i. 29, vol. xvii. pt. i. p. 575), whose opinions
latter period of the Peloponnesian WVar. [PHI- he accurately preserved and transmitted to his own
LOXENUS, No. 1.] pupils without addition or omission (id. De Ord.
2. The son of Theognis, of Marathon, a dis- Libror. Suor. vol. xix. p. 58). He passed some years
tinguished comic actor at Athens, and a contempo- at Pergamus (id. vol. ii. p. 224), where he was one
rary of Demosthenes, is said to have given instruc- of Galen's earliest tutors, about the year 149 (id.
tions to the young orator in the art of giving full vol. ii. p. 217, xiv. 69, xv. 136, xvi. 484, 524,
effect to his speeches by appropriate action. (Plut. xvii. A. 575, xix. 57). He wrote some anatoDemz. 7.) The same orator relates an honourable mical works (id. vol. xv. p. 136), and a commenanecdote of him, that having once been at a fes- tary on part (if not the whole) of the Hippocratic
tival given by Philip king of Macedon, after the Collection (id. vol. xvi. pp. 484, 524); but none
capture of Olynthus (B. C. 347), when the king of his writings are now extant. [W. A. G.]
was making large presents to all the other artists, SAVE'RRIO, the name of a patrician family of
Satyrus begged, as his reward, the liberation of the Sulpicia Gens.
two of the Olynthian captives, daughters of an 1. P. SULPICIUS SAVERRIO, consul B. C. 304,
old friend of his, to whom he afterwards gave with P. Sempronius Sophus. According to the
marriage portions at his own cost. (Dem. de fals. Triumphal Fasti, Saverrio triumphed in this year
Leg. pp. 401, 402; Diod. xvi. 55.) He is also over the Samnites; but this appears to be an error,
mentioned incidentally by Plutarch (De se ips. c. since Livy relates that, though Saverrio remained
inv. laud. p. 545, f.). in Samnium with a small army, all hostilities were
Athenaeus (xiii. p. 591, e.) quotes a statement suspended, while negotiations were carried on for
respecting Phryne from the Pamphila of " Sa- a peace. Towards the end of the year the peace
tyrus, the actor, of Olynthus," from which it was concluded. Livy says that the ancient alliance
would seem that Satyrus not only acted comedies, was restored to the Sanmnites; but Niebuhr points
but also wrote some. Either Athenaeus may out that this is a mistake, and directs attention to
have called him an Olynthian carelessly, from the the statement of Dionysius, that, in the treaty