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

SEUTII ES. SEUTHES. 809
found by Wolfgang Lazius, in a MS. belonging to the death of Sita]ces; but this is wholly at variance
the Imperial Library at Vienna, he gave them to with the account given by Thucydides [SITALCES].
the world as a new discovery in his collection, From the same passage we learn that he mainDiversorum auctorum apocrphorumna de vita Christi tained friendly relations with the Athenian people,
et Apostolorum (fol.. Basil. 1551), and his mistake by whom he was admitted to the privileges of
was not discovered for two centuries. citizenship.
The Historia Sacra was first printed at Basle 2. Another Odrysian prince, a son of Maesades,
(8vo. 1556) by Matthaeus Flaccius. Among the who had reigned over the tribes of the Melannumerous editions which have appeared from time ditae, Thyni, and Tranipsae, but had been expelled
to time the most notable are those with the com- from his kingdom before his death, on which acmentary of Sigonius (8vo. Bonlon. 1561, 1581), count Seuthes was brought up at the court of Meand with that of Drusius. (8vo. Arnhem. 1607.) docus, or Amadocus, king of the Odrysians (Xen.
The Epistolae were collected from various Anab. vii. 2. ~ 32). He was,- however, admitted
sources at different times. Two were first printed to a certain amount of independent power, and we
in the Lectiones Antiquae of Canisius, vol. v. p. 540, find him in B. C. 405 joining with Amadocus, in
4to. Ingolds. 1604; two, with others of doubtful promising his support to Alcibiades, to carry on
authenticity in the Spicilegium Veterum Scriptorz'in the war against the Lacedaenlonians (Diod. xiii.
of Dacherius, vol. v. p. 532, 4to. Paris, 1661, and 105). In B. c. 400, when Xenophon with the rethe two to Claudia in the Miscellanea of Baluzius, mains of the ten thousand Greeks that had accomfol. Paris. 1678. panied Cyrus, arrived at Chrysopolis, Seuthes apThe collected works were first printed at Basle plied to him for the assistance of the force under
(16mo. 1563), but the first impression with any his command to reinstate him in his dominions.
pretensions to critical accuracy was that of Victor His proposals were at first rejected; but he renewed
Giselinus, 8vo. Ant. 1574, accompanied by notes, them again when the Greeks had been expelled
and an elaborate life of Sulpicius. Considerable from Byzantium, and found themselves at Perinimprovements were introduced by Hornius, 8vo. thus without the means of crossing, into Asia; and
Lug. Bat. 1647; by Vorstius, 12mo. Berol. 1668; they were now induced, principally by Xenophon
and Lips. 1703, by Mercierus, 8vo. Paris, 1675; himself, to accept the offers of the Thracian prince.
by far the most complete and satisfactory edition By the assistance of these new auxiliaries, Seuthes
is that of Hieronymus de Prato, 4to. 2 vols. Veron. obtained an easy victory over the mountain tribes,
1741-1754, which has always, since its appear- and recovered the whole of his father's dominions.
ance, been regarded as the standard, although not But when it came to the question of paying the serabsolutely complete, since the six epistles are vices of the Greeks, great disputes arose, and Seuomitted. It was reprinted, with the addition of thes, at the instigation of Heracleides, endeavoured
the epistles, by Galland, in his Bibliothleca Patrunm, by every subterfuge to elude his obligations. He was
vol. viii. fol. Venet. 1772. (Gennad. de Viris at length, however, compelled to pay the stipulated
illast. 19; Honorius Augustod. de Script. Eccles. sum, and the Greeks thereupon crossed into Asia
iii. 19; Trithemnius, de Script. Eccles. 113; Gregor. (Xen. Anab. vii. 1. ~ 5, 2-7). Not long afterTuron. de Mirac. S. Mart. i.; Ilistor. Franc. x. wards, B. C. 399, we find him sending an auxiliary
31; Paulin. Nol. Ep. v. 1, xi. 5, xxiii. 3, &c.; force to the Spartan general, Dercyllidas, in BiHieronym. CotnLzent. in Ezec/l. 36; Augustin. thynia (Id. Hellen. iii. 2. ~ 2). At a subsequent
Ep. 205.) [W. R.] period (B. c. 393), he was engaged in hostilities
SEVE'RUS, VERULA'NUS, a legatus of with his former patron Amadocus; but the quarrel
Corbulo, under whom he served in the East, in between them was terminated by the intervention
A. D. 60 —62 (Tac. Ann. xiv. 26, xv. 3). The of Thrasybulus; and Seuthes, at the suggestion of
L. Verulanus Severus, who was consul sulffectus that general, concluded an alliance with Athens.
under Trajan in A. D. 108, was perhaps a son of (Ibid. iv. 8. ~ 26; Diod. xiv. 94.)
the preceding. 3. A king of Thrace, or more properly of the
SEUTHIES (:E0vdss). 1. A king of the Thracian Odrysians, contemporary with Alexander the Great,
tribe of the Odrysians, was a son of Sparadocus or to whom he was tributary. But in B. c. 325, ZoSpardacus, and nephew of Sitalces, king of the pyrion, who had been left by the Macedonian king
Odrysians, whom he accompanied on his great ex- as governor in Thrace, having fallen in an expedition into Macedonia, B. c. 429. On that oc- pedition against the Getae, Seuthes raised the
casion he was gained over by Perdiccas, king of standard of revolt (Curt. x. 1. ~ 45). He appears
Macedonia, who promised him his sister Stratonice to have been for the time repressed by Antipater;
in marriage; and in consequence exerted all his but after the death of Alexander (B. c. 323), we
influence with Sitalces to induce him to withdraw find him again in arms, and opposing Lysimachus,
his army from Macedonia. His efforts were suc- the new governor of Thrace, with an army of
cessful, and after his return to Thrace, he was 20,000 foot and 8000 horse. An obstinate struggle
married to Stratonice according to the agreement ensued, without any decisive result; and both
(Thuc. ii. 101). In B. c. 424 he succeeded Sitalces parties withdrew, we are told, to prepare, for a
on the throne, and during a long reign raised his renewal of the contest. (Diod. xviii. 14.) No
kingdom to a height of power and prosperity further account of this has been transmitted to us,
which it had never previously attained, so that his but it is clear that Seuthes was ultimately comregular revenues amounted to the annual sum of pelled to acknowledge the authority of Lysimachus.
400 talents, in addition to contributions of gold In B. c. 313, however, he took advantage of the
and silver in the form of presents to a nearly equal war between the Thracian king and Antigonus to
amount (Thuc. ii. 97, iv. 101.). From a passage declare in favour of the latter, and occupied the
in the letter of Philip to the Athenian people (ap. passes of Mount Haemus with an army, but was
Demosth]. p. 161, ed. Reiske) it would appear that once more defeated by Lysimachus, and finally reSeuthes was accused of having had some hand in duced to submission. (Id. xix. 73.) [E. H. B.]