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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scribing its matter. The extracts quoted in illus- R. Rochette, Lettre a M. Schora, pp. 408, 409,
tration begin usually with passages from the poets, 2d. ed.) [P. S.]
after whom come historians, orators, philosophers STRABO, a cognomen in many Roman gentes,
and physicians. Photius has given an alphabetical was indicative, like many other Roman surnames,
list of above 500 Greek writers from whom Sto- of a bodily defect or peculiarity; such as Capito,
baeus has taken extracts, arranged according to Fronto, Naso, Varus, &c. It signified a person,their different classes, as philosophers, poets, &c. who squinted, and is accordingly classed with PaeThe works of the greater part of these have pe- tus, though the latter word did not indicate such a
rished. To Stobaeus we are indebted for a large complete distortion of vision as Strabo. (Plin. H. N.
proportion of the fragments that remain of the lost xi. 37. s. 55; Hor. Sat. i. 3. 45; Cic. de Nat. Deos.
works of poets. Euripides seems to have been an i. 29.)
especial favourite with him. He has quoted above STRABO, the geographer. Little is known of
500 passages from him in the Sermones, 150 from Strabo's personal history, and that which is known
Sophocles, and above 200 from Menander. In ex- is collected from short notices in his own work.
tracting from prose writers, Stobaeus sometimes Strabo was a native of Amasia or Amlasea, a town
quotes verbatim, sometimes gives only an epitome on the Iris, now the Jekil Irmak, and in the kingof the passage. The latter mode is more common dom of Pontus: in his geography he has given a
in the Eclogae than in the Sermones. With regard description of his native place (lib. xii. p. 561, ed.
to such passages the question has been raised, whe- Casaub.). Of his parentage on his father's side he
ther Stobaeus quoted at first hand, or from some says nothing. On his mother's side he was decollection similar to his own. It is at least clear scended from a distinguished Greek family, which
that he had Plutarch's collection of the opinions of was closely connected with the Pontic kings, Miphilosophers before him, and that in its complete thridates, Euergetes, and Mithridates Etpator;
form. A detailed account of the contents of so and the fortunes of this family of course followed
miscellaneous a collection as that of Stobaeus would that of all these kings of Pontus. Dorylaeus, a disbe foreign to the purpose of the present work. For tinguished general (TaKTIlKOS) and a friend of Mitables of contents the reader may consult Photius thridates Euergetes, was the great-grandfather of
(1. c.) and Fabricius (Bibl. Gr. vol. ix. p. 574, Strabo's mother (pp. 477, 557). Mithridates Euer&c.). getes was murdered in Sinope, while his friend
The first portion of the work of Stobaeus that Dorylaeus was in Crete looking for mercenary
was published was the Sermones, edited by Franc. troops, upon which Dorylaeus gave up all thoughts
Trincavelli (Venice, 4to. 1536) under the title of returning home, and went to Cnossus, where he'Iwdvsov 70o ir'oeaiov IcAo-yal a7ropOeyeryTcovv. was employed as commander in a war against the
Three editions of the same portion were published people of Gortyna, which he quickly brought to a
by Conrad Gesner, with the title Kepas'AMzaO- close. This success brought him distinction: he
Oatas.'Icidvvov'rov 2ToCafov Kico-yal airop0e'y- married a Macedonian woman, Sterope, who bore
uPdvwsa (or iKc. a7ropO. KaIl broOxKCv), at Ziirich in him a daughter and two sons, Lagetas and Stra1543, at Basle in 1549, and at Ziirich in 1559, tarchas. Dorylaeus died in Crete. Dorylaeus, the
fol. The best edition of the Sermones or Flori- friend of Euergetes, had a brother Philetaerus, who
legium is that by Gaisford (Oxford, 1822, 4 vols. remained in Pontus; and Philetaerus had also a
8vo.). son named Dorylaeus, who rose to high military
The first edition of the Eclogae was that by rank under Mithridates the Great, and served
Canter (Antwerp, 1575, fol.). The best edition is against the Romans. He was also for a time chiefthat by A. H. L. Heeren (Gotting. 1792-1801, priest at Comana Pontica. At the wish of Miin 4 vols. 8vo.). The only edition of the whole of thridates the Great, Lagetas and Stratarchas with
Stobaeus together is one published at Geneva in their sister returned to Pontus. Strabo saw Stra1609, fol. (SchiIll, Gesch. der griech. Litteratur. tarchas in his extreme old age. Lagetas had a
vol. iii. p. 395, &c.) [C. P. M.] daughter, who was, says Strabo, " the mother of
STOLO, C. LICI'NIUS CALVUS. [CAL- my mother." The relations of Strabo on his
vus, No. 4.] father's side, and on the side of his mother's
STO'MIUS (2T'reUos), a statuary, who made father, may not have been pure Greek: indeed,
the statue of Hieronymus of Andros, to celebrate there is little doubt that the Greeks of Amasia
his victory at Olympia over Tisamenus of Elis, were intermingled with Cappadocians. The family
the seer who was afterwards present at the battle of Strabo lost its importance with the death of
of Plataeae. (Paus. vi. 14. ~ 5.) If the statue Mithridates the Great; and though some of the
was made soon after the victory, the artist's age members of it had joined the Roman party, as in
would of course fall at or just before the beginning the case of the father of Strabo's mother, yet he
of the Persian Wars, B. c. 500 or 490. (Thiersch, did not even obtain what Lucullus had promised
Eppocien, p. 202.) [P. S.] him for his services. The jealousy of Cnu. PomSTRABAX, a sculptor, known by an inscrip- peius, the successor of Lucullus, made him refuse
tion on a pedestal found on the Acropolis, in front every thing to the friends of Lucullus. Moaof the western portico of the Parthenon. This phernes, theuncIeofStrabo's mother, and probably
pedestal bears two inscriptions; the one is on the her father's brother, was governor of Colchis under
front, from which we learn that it supported an ho- Mithridates the Great, and his fortunes were ruined
norific statue erected by the Areiopagus; the other with those of the king.
is on the top, by the side of the print of two bronze The period of Strabo is generally well known
feet, and.runs thus: ITPABAErFOHUEN. From from his own work. He lived during the reign of
the form of the letters, Ross supposes that the Augustus, and at least during the first five years of
artist lived in the middle of the 4th century B. c., the reign of Tiberius, for he speaks of the great
that is, in the time of Praxiteles. (Ross, in Ger- earthquake of Sardis, which happened in the time
hard's Archsiologische Zeitung for 1844, p. 243; of Tiberius (p. 626; Tacit. Ann. ii. 47). The
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