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Title: Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1854 (1850s)
Authors: Smith, William, Sir, 1813-1893
Subjects: Classical geography
Publisher: London : Walton & Maberly
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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to the families ofSergia and others. At the back is a water-course,with portions of the walls of the Circus Maximus.In the suburb San Salvador, a mosaic pavement ofBacchus was discovered in 1745, which soon after-wards was let go to ruin, like that of Italica. Thefamous theatre is placed on the slope above thetown, to which the orchestra is turned ; it wasmuch destroyed by Suchet, who used the stones tostrengthen the castle, whose long lines of wall andtower rise grandly above; the general form of thetheatre is, however, easily to be made out. . . . Thelocal arrangements are such as are common toRoman theatres, and resemble those of JJerida.They have been measured and described by DeanMarti; Ponz, iv. 232, in the Esp. Sagr. viii. 151.(Fords Handbook for Spain, p. 206.) For thecoins of Saguntum see Florez, Med. ii. p. 560;^lionnet, i. p. 49, Suppt. i. p. 98. The accompany-ing coin of Saguntum contains on the obverse thehead of Tiberius, and on the reverse the prow of aship. (T. H. D.)
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COIN OF SAGUSTU.M. SAGUTE SINUS (Polyb. ap. Plin. v. 1), a gulfon the W. coast of ilauretania, S. of tlie river Lixus,which must be identified with the EmpoiucusSinus. The Phoenician word Sacharut signifies Empnria, and by an elision not uncommon amongthe Africans assumed the form under which it ap-pears in Polybius. (Jlovers, Die Phoniz. vol. ii.p. 541.) (E. B. J.) SAGYLIUM C^ayvXiov), a castle situated on asteep rock in the interior of Pontus, which was oneof the strongholds of the Pontian kings. (Sti-ab.xii. pp. 560,561.) (L. S.) SAIS (2ais, Herod, ii. 28, 59, 152, 169 ; Strab.Xvii. p. 8D2; Steph. B. s. v.; Mela. i. 9. § 9; Plin.V. 10. s. 11: Etk. 2ajTT7S, fern. SaTris), the capitalof the Saitie Nome in the Delta, and occasionally ofLower Aegypt also, stood, in lat. 31° 4 N., on theright b.ink of the Canopic arm of the Nile. Thesite of the ancient city is determined not only bythe appellation of the modern town of Sa-el-Hadjar,which occupies a portion of its area, but also bymoun

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