INDEX 365 



Scylla, 153; see Chary bdis. 



Scythia, 180, 208. Term used very loosely of region in Central 

 and Northern Asia, but at times extending to Europe, as 

 far west as the Danube. Sarmatia of one age was part 

 of Scythia of another. 



Sea, unity of the, 125; coeval with the world, 135; throws 

 ashore ill-smelling deposits, 142 ; share of, in final de- 

 struction of the earth, 143, 150; current of, from Black 

 Sea, 176; subterranean, 234. 



Sea and land breezes, 198. 



Seafaring, condemned, 216. 



Sea-water, purged of its salt within the earth, 1 1 6. 



Sejanus, 9. Notorious instrument of Tiberius ; put to death 



3 1 - 



Sela (gleams in the sky), 39. 

 Self, bondage of slavery to, 113. 

 Septemtrio (Wind), 210. 

 Sextii, 307. Father and son in the time of Augustus and 



Nero respectively ; taught a combination of Stoic and 



Pythagorean doctrines. 

 Sheep, destruction of, during Campanian earthquake of 



A.D. 63, 259. 

 Sicily and Sicilian, 114, 138, 142 (2), 153, 159, 166(2), 



235, 262, 263. 

 Sidon, 256. 

 Snow, melting in Ethiopia erroneously supposed to be the 



cause of the annual rise of the Nile, 173; supplies some 



European rivers, 173; on European mountains, 173; 



origin of, 178, 179, 182, 186; said to feel colder to 



the feet when dry and hard than when slushy and half 



melted, 180; artificial use of, 187. 

 Sophocles, 172. 

 Soul, divine origin of, 6 ; to be rescued from error and fear 



of death, 103. 



Sound less rapid than light, 64. 

 Spain and Spanish, 6, 7, no, 263. 

 Springs, 118, 121, 127, 136, 142. 

 Squalls, origin of, 204; short duration of, 281. 

 Stabiae, 221. Small town on coast of Campania. 

 Stars, fed by emanations from the earth, 55, 198, 244; 



influence of, in human affairs, 81 ; nature of, 273; 



transits of, 284; supposed small size of, 288; place of, 



in sky, 297 ; varying colours of, 300. 

 Stars, falling, 10, n, 37, 99, 296. 

 Statonia, 139. Town in Etruria, about 15 miles from the coast. 



