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Stoici, Styx, Suada, Sulla, Susarion & Sybaris

Stoici

A celebrated sect of philosophers founded by Zeno. They preferred virtue to all other things, and regarded everything opposed to it as an evil.

A celebrated river of the infernal regions.

The gods held it in such veneration that they always swore by it, the oath being inviolable.

The Roman personification of persuasion.

See Sylla.

Sulmo (Sulmona). A town of the Peligni in the country of the Sabines, celebrated as the birthplace of Ovid.

A native of Megara, to whom the origin of the Attic Comedy is ascribed.

A town on the bay of Tarentum. Its inhabitants were distinguished by their love of ease and pleasure, hence the term