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SIBYRTIUS. SICINIA GENS. 815
in various countries and at different times in rival, confirmed Sibyrtius in his satrapy, and placed
antiquity. The name is said to be formed from under his command a large part of the select body
ALos and f3ovul, so that it would signify the of troops termed Argyraspids; a measure adopted
counsel of Zeus (Plut. Phaedr. p. 244; Serv. ad with the ostensible object of guarding these proAen. iii. 445). The first Sibyl, from whom all vinces against the neighbouring barbarians, but in
the rest are said to have derived their name, is reality with a view to the gradual destruction of
said to have been a daughter of Dardanus and the troops in question, whose turbulent and disNeso. Some authors mention only four Sibyls, affected spirit was well known. (Diod. xix. 14,
the Erythraean, the Samian, the Egyptian and 23, 48; Polyaen. iv. 6. ~ 18.) No further menthe Sardian (Aelian, V. H. xii. 35); but it was tion is found of Sibyrtius. [E. H. B.]
more commonly believed that there were ten, SICA'NUS (lKcav's), son of Execestus, was
namely the Babylonian, the Libyan, the Delphian one of the three generals of the Syracusans (Her(an elder Delphian, who was a daughter of Zeus mocrates being another), who were appointed at
and Lamia, and a younger one, Paus. x. 12. ~ 1), the time of the Athenian invasion, B. C. 415. In
the Cimmerian, the Erythraean. (here too we find B. C. 413, after the repulse of the Athenians from
an elder and a younger one, who is called Hero- Epipolae, he was sent with 13 ships to Agriphile, Strab. xiv. p. 645), the Samian, the Cu- gentum, to endeavour to obtain assistance; but,
maean (who is sometimes identified with the before he could reach the city, the party there,
Erythraean, Aristot. Mirab. 97), the IIellespontian which was favourable to the Syracusans, was
or Trojan (comp. Tibull. ii..5. 19), the Phrygian defeated and driven out. In the sea-fight of the
and the Tiburtine (Paus. x. 1.2; Lactant. Instit. same year, in which the Athenians were conquered
i. 6). The most celebrated of these Sibyls is the and Eurymedon was slain, Sicanus, according to
Cumaean, who is mentioned under the names of Diodorus, was the author of the plan for setting
Herophile, Demo, Phemonoe, Deiphobe, Demo- fire to the enemy's ships, which had been driven
phile, and Amalthea (Paus. I. c.; Serv. ad Aen. into the shallow water near the shore; and shortly
iii. 445, vi. 72; Tibull. ii. 5. 67; Suidas, s. v.). after we find him commanding one wing of the
She was consulted by Aeneas before he descended Syracusan fleet in the last and decisive defeat of
into the lower world (Ov. Met. xiv. 104, &c., the Athenians in the great harbour of Syracuse.
xv. 712; Virg. Aen. vi. 10). She is said to have (Thuc. vi. 73, vii. 46, 50, 53, 70; Diod. xiii.
come to Italy from the East (Liv. i. 7), and she is 13.) [E. E.]
the one who, according to tradition, appeared be- SICCA, a friend of Cicero, who took refuge at
fore king Tarquinius, offering him the Sibylline his estate at Vibo, in the country of the Bruttii,
books for sale (Plin. H. N. xiii. 28; Gell. i. 19). when he left Rome in B. C. 58. Here he received'
Pausanias also mentions a Hebrew Sibyl of the intelligence of his banishment, and forthwith set
name of Sabbe, who is called a daughter of Be- out for Brundisium, where he expected to meet
rosus and Erymanthe. [L. S.] Sicca, but was disappointed, as Sicca had left BrunSIBY/NTIUS (:sLVzTros), a reader and a slave disium before he arrived there. (Cic. ad Att. iii. 2,
of the orator Theodectes of Phaselis, who died 4, ad Fam. xiv. 4. ~ 6). Plutarch (Cic. 32) apbefore B. c. 333, was the first slave who professed pears to refer to the same person, but calls him
the art of oratory. He wrote some works on Olg@Los ILKEEOS dr'vip, " Vibius, a Sicilian," as if he
rhetoric, which are mentioned by Suidas (s. v.) had mistaken the name Siccac; but he relates that
(Comp. Westernlann, Geschichte der G(riech. Be- this Vibius refused Cicero hospitality at Vibo.
redisamkeit, ~ 50, n. 6.) Sicca is next mentioned at the breaking out of the
SIBY'RT1US (J2X~prios), a Macedonian officer civil war in B. C. 49, when L. Domitius sent him
in the service of Alexander the Great, who was with a letter and orders to Pompey. In B. C. 44
appointed by him, on his return from India (B. c. Cicero again took refuse in Sicca's house at Vibo.
326), governor of the province of Carmania. This (Cic. adAtt. viii. 12, c. xii. 23, xiv. 19, xvi. 6, 11.)
post he shortly after exchanged for the more im- SI'CCIUS, a name oftentimes confused with
portant satrapy of Arachosia and Gedrosia, to which Sicinius. [See SICINIUS, Nos. 2, 3.]
he succeeded on the death of Thoas (Arrian, Anab. SICHAEUS. [SYcHEuvs.]
vi. 27; Curt. ix. 10. ~ 20). At the death of SICI'NIA GENS, patrician and plebeian. The
Alexander, Sibyrtius, in common with most of the only patrician member of the gens was T. Sicinius
other governors of the remote eastern provinces, Sabinus, who was consul B. C. 487. [SABINUS,
retained possession of his satrapy, which was again p. 691, a.] All the other Sicinii mentioned in
confirmed to him in the second partition at Tripa- history were plebeians; and although none of them
radeisus, B. C. 321 (Diod. xviii. 3; Justin, xiii. 4; obtained the consulship, they gained great celebrity
Arrian, ap. Phot. p. 71, b.; Dexippus, ibid. p. 64, by their advocacy of the rights of the plebeians in
b.). In the subsequent divisions which arose the struggles between the two orders. One or two
among the eastern satraps, Sibyrtius was one of of the plebeian Sicinii bore cognomens, which are
those who supported Peucestes against Python and given below. There are a few coins of this gens,
Seleucus, and afterwards accompanied that leader
when he joined Eumenes in Susiana, B.C. 317.
His attachment was, however, to Peucestes, and
not to Eumenes, and in the intrigues of the former v4 C
against his commander-in-chief, Sibyrtius supported l X
him so strongly that hb incurred the especial re-
sentment of Eumenes, who threatened to bring / &eG_(S~
him to trial; a fate from which he only escaped o oo
by a hasty flight. But this open rupture with
Eumenes had the advantage of securing him the
favour of AntigonIus, who, after the defeat of his COIN OF TIE SICINIA GEN.