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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whliclh was made, the Samnites acknowledged the SAUROMATES (cmavpo/aiT'qs) is the name of
supremacy of Rome. In B. C. 229 Saverrio was several kings of Bosporus, who are for the most
censor with Sempronius Sophus, his former col- part known only from their coins. These bear
league in the consulship. In their censorship two most commonly the head of the reigning Roman
new tribes were formed, the Aniensis and Teren- emperor on the one side, and that of the king of
tina. (Liv. ix. 49, x. 9; Dionys. Exc. Legat. p. Bosporus on the other, in token of the dependent
2331, ed. Reiske; Niebuhr, Hist. of Rome, vol. condition of the latter monarchs. From this ciriii. pp. 258, 259.) cumstance we are fortunately enabled to determine,
2. P. SULPICIUS P. F. SER. N. SAVERRIO, son approximately, the period at which the several
of the preceding, was consul B. c. 279, with P. kings of the name respectively reigned in BosDecius Mus, and commanded, with his colleague, porus; but, besides this, many of their coins bear
against Pyrrhus. The history of this campaign is dates which have been ascertained tc be computed
given under Mus, No. 3, where the authorities are from an era corresponding with the year B. C. 296,
also cited. thus enabling us to fix still more accurately their
SAUFEIUS. 1. C. SAUFEIUS. quaestor in chronology. (See Eckhel. vol. ii. p. 382.)
B.C. 100, was one of the partisans of Saturninus, 1. SAUROMATES I. was contemporary with
took refuge with him in the capitol, and was slain Augustus and Tiberius: and assumed, in complialong with his leader, when they were obliged to ment to thejatter emperor, the names of Tiberius
surrender to Marius. (Cic. pro C. Rabir. 7; Ap- Julius, which appear on some of his coins. The
pian, B. C. i. 32.) [SATURNINUS, p. 724.] date on the one annexed, incorrectly copied in the
2. M. SAUFEIUS, was a companion of Milo, and engraving, is O9E, or 299, which corresponds
had taken the principal share in the murder of with A. D. 3: others bear dates as late as the year
Clodius, B. C. 52. After the condemnation of 310 of the Bosporan era, or A. D. 14. None of
Milo, he was accused under the lex Pompeia de Vi, those with the titles of Ti. Julius have any dates,
and escaped punishment by only a single vote. and Mionnet considers (apparently without sufHie was accused a few days afterwards under the ficient reason) that these belong to a second king
lex Plautia, but was again acquitted. He was on of the name of Sauromates.
each occasion defended by Cicero. (Ascon. in According to Eckhel (Ib. p. 375), Pepaepiris was
Mil. p. 54, ed. Orelli.) the wife of this Sauromates [PEPAEPIRIS]; but
3. L. SAUFErvs, a Roman eques, was an in- later numismatists consider her as the queen of
timate friend of Atticus, and, like the latter, a Mithridates king of Bosporus. It appears prowarm admirer of the Epicurean philosophy. He bable, also, that the true form of her name is
had very valuable property in Italy, which was GeDaepiris. (Dumersan, Midailles d'Allier, pp. 64,
confiscated by the triumvirs; but Atticus exerted 66; Mionnet. Suppl. iv. pp. 482, 496.)
himself on behalf of his friend with so much success,
that the latter received intelligence, at the same
time, of the confiscation and restitution of his property. (Cic. ad Att. i. 3, ii. 8, iv. 6, vi. 9, vii.,
xiv. 18, xv. 4; Corn. Nep. Att. 12.) 1! --
4, 5. APP. SAUFEIUS, and D. SAUFEIUS, a
scriba, are mentioned by Pliny, as two instances of
sudden death (H. N. vii. 53. s. 54).
6. SAUFEIUS TROGETS was put to death in A. D.
48, because he had been privy to the marriage of COIN OF SAUROMATES I.
iNlessalina with Silius (Tac. Ann. xi. 35). Some
editions of Tacitus have Saufellus. 2. SAUROMATES IIT. was a contemporary of the
7. L. SAUFEIUS occurs on coins of the republican emperors Trajan and Hadrian, and is incidentally
period, but cannot be referred with certainty to mentioned by the younger Pliny as having sent
any of the persons above mentioned. (Eckhel, vol. an embassy to the former emperor (Plin. Epp. x.
v. p. 301.) 13, 14, 15). From his coins we learn that he
ascended the throne as early as A. D. 94, before
the death of Domitian, and that he still occupie1
it in A. D. 124. The annexed coin, which bears
on the obverse the head of Hadrian and the date
- 413. (A D.. 117), belongs to this Sauromates.
COIN OF L. SAUFEIUS.
SAURAS or SAURUS, sculptor. [BATRACHU LS.]
SAU'RIAS (:avpfase), a very ancient artist of
Samos, to whom some ascribed the invention of COIN OF SAUROMATES II.
that first step in the art of drawing, which was
called oca-ypap[Ca, that is, tracing the outline of a 3. SAUROMATES III. was the successor of
shadow. The statement, however, deserves little EUPATOR, and must have become king of Bosporus
credit, as it rests on the sole authority of Athe- before the death of M. Aurelius. His earliest
nagoras (Athenag. Legat. pro Christ. 14, p. 59, ed. extant coin bears the head of that emperor, with
Dechair). [P. S.] the date of 474 (A. D. 178). Others have the