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

930 SUETIUS. SUETONIUS.
by the prayer of Aeacus. (Apollod. iii. 12. Verres, when he was accused by Cicero. (Cic.
~ 6.) [L. S.] Verr. i. 5, ii. 12, v. 47.)
STYPAX or STIPAX, of Cyprus, a statuary, SUETO'NIUS LENIS. [SUETONIUS TRANto whom Pliny ascribes the execution of a cele- QUILLUS]
brated statue called Splanchnoptes, because it SUETO'NLUS OPTATIAtNUS, wrote the
represented a person roasting the entrails of the life of the emperor Tacitus. (Vopisc. Tac. 11.)
victim at a sacrifice, and blowing the fire with his SUETOINIUS PAULI'NUS. [PAITLINUS.]
breath. (II. N. xxxiv. 8. 19. s. 21.) According C. SUETO'NIUS TRANQUILLUS. The
to Pliny, the person represented was a slave of little that is known of Suetonius is derived from
Pericles, evidently the same as the one of whom his lives of the Caesars and the letters of his friend,
he elsewhere relates the story, that he fell from the younger Plinius.
the summit of the Parthenon, but was healed by He states that he was a young man (adolescens)
the virtue of a herb which Minerva showed to twenty years after the death of Nero (Nero, c.
Pericles in a dream (H. N. xxii. 17. s. 20), a story 57.), and Nero died A. D. 68. Accordingly he
which Plutarch tells of the architect MNESICLES. may have been born a few years after Nero's death.
Among the recent discoveries on the Acropolis, In his life of Domitian (c. 12) he speaks of being
fragments have been found which Ross supposes to present at a certain affair, as adolescentulus. It
have belonged to the base of the Splanchnoptes, appears from various passages in his work that he
and he has put forth the conjecture that the name might have received oral information about the
Stipax in Pliny is only a corruption of STRABAX; emperors who lived before he was born, at least
but these matters are too doubtful and intricate to Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. His
be discussed here. (Ross, in the Kunstblalt, 1840, father Suetonius Lenis (Otho, c. 10), a tribune of
No. 37, and in Gerhard's A rchliol. Zeitung, 1844, the thirteenth legion, was in the battle of Bebriap. 243.) [P. S.] cum or Bedriacum, in which Otho was defeated
STYX (:~64),connected with the verb 0rTvywo, by Vitellius. The words Lenis and Tranquillus
to hate or abhor, is the name of the principal river have the same meaning; but there may be some
in the nether world, around which it flows seven doubt about the reading Lenis, in the passage in
times. (Hoem. II. ii. 755, viii. 369, xiv. 271; Virg. the life of Otho. In the collection of the letters
Geoiy. iv. 480, Aen. vi. 439.) Styx is described of the younger Plinius there are several to Suetoas a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys (Hes. Theog. nius Tranquillus, from one of which (i. 18) it ap361; Apollod. i. 2. ~ 2; Callim. Hymn. in Jov. 36), pears that Snetonius was then a young man and
and as a nymph she dwelt at the entrance of entering on the career of an advocate. In another
Hades, in a lofty grotto which was supported by letter (i. 24) he speaks of his friend Tranquillus
silver columns. (Hes. Theog. 778.) As a river wishing to buy a small estate, such as suited a
Styx is described as a branch of Oceanus, flowing man of studious habits, enough to amuse him,
fiom its tenth source (789), and the river Cocytus without occupying him too much. Suetonius does
again is a branch of the Styx. (Hom. Od. x. 511.) not appear to have been desirous of public employBy Pallas Styx became the mother of Zelus (zeal), ment, for he requested Plinius to transfer to a
Nice (victory), Bia (strength), and Cratos (power). relation, Caesennius Silvanus, a tribuneship, which
She was the first of all the immortals that took Plinius had obtained for Suetonius (iii. 8). In a
her children to Zeus, to assist him against the letter of uncertain date (v. 11) Plinius urges SueTitans; and, in return for this, her children were tonius to publish his works (scripta), but without
allowed for ever to live with Zeus, and Styx her- giving any intimation what the works were; Pliself became the divinity by whom the most solemn nius says that he had already recommended the
oaths were sworn. (Hes. Thleog. 383; Hoem. Od. works of Suetonius in some hendecasyllabic verses,
v. 185, xv. 37; Apollod. i. 2. ~ 5; Apollon. Rhod. and jocularly expresses his danger of being called
ii. 191; Virg. Aen. vi. 324, xii. 816; Ov. M[et. iii. on to produce them by legal process (ne cogantur
290; Sil. Ital. xiii. 568.) When one of the gods ad exhibendum formnulamn accipere). In a letter
was to take an oath by Styx, Iris fetched a cup to Trajanus (x. 95) Plinius commends to the emfull of water from the Styx, and the god, while peror the integrity and learning of Suetonius, who
taking the oath, poured out the water. (Hes. Theog had become his intimate friend, and he says that
775.) Zeus became by her the father of Per- he liked him the better, the more he knew him:
sephone (Apollod. i. 3. ~ 1), and Peiras the father he requested the emperor to grant Suetonius the
of Echidna. (Paus. viii. 1] 8. ~ 1.) [L. S.] jus trium liberorum, for though Suetonius was marSUADA, the Roman personification of persua- ried he had no children, or at least had not the
sion, the Greek Peitho (Is0&t). She is also called number of three, which was necessary to relieve
by the diminutive Suadela. (Horat. Epist. i. 6. 38; him from various legal disabilities. The emperor
Cic. Brut. 15, Cat. A1aj. 11.) [L. S.] granted the privilege to Suetonius.
SU'BRIUS FLA'VIUS or FLAVUS. [FLA- Suetonius became Magister Epistolarum to Havvs.] drianus, a situation which would give him the opporSU'BULO, P. DEICIUS, was one of the tri- tunity of seeing many important documents relating
umvirs for settling new colonists at Aquileia, in to the emperors. In a passage in the life of
B. C. 169; and he is probably the same as the P. Augustus (c. 7) Suetonius makes mention of his
Decius, who was sent to Rome in the following having given to the Princeps a bronze bust which
year by the praetor L. Anicius, to announce his represented Augustus when a boy. The critics
victory over the Illyrians and his capture of king generally assume that the Princeps was Hadrianus;
Gentius. (Liv. xliii. 17, xlv. 3.) but it is immaterial whether it was Hadrianus or
SUE')DIUS CLEMENS, was with two others Trajanus, so far as concerns the biography of
placed by Otho over the troops who were to attack Suetonius. Hadrianus. who was apparently of a
Gallia Narbonensis. (Tac. Hist. i. 87, ii. 12.) jealous disposition, deprived of their offices at the
L. SUE'TIUS, one of the witnesses against same time, Septicius Clarus, who was Praefectus