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European Russia, the chief place of a circle; 93 miles south 
of Kiev. 
SVENZIANY, a small town of Russian Lithuania, the 
chief town of a circle; 33 miles north-north-east of Wilna. 
SUESCA, formerly a large and rich city of New Granada, 
in the province of Ubates, but now reduced to a small village, 
containing about 100 inhabitants, and as many Indians: 29 
miles north-north-east of Santa Fe. 
SU'ET, s. [suet, an old French word according to 
Skinner.] A hard fat, particularly that about the kidnies. 
—The steatoma being suet, yields not to escaroticks. 
Wiseman. 
SUETI, a river of New Granada, in the province ofChoco, 
which runs west, and enters the mouth of the river Atrato. 
SUETI, a river of South America, in the province of 
Darien, which enters the Chucunaqui. 
SU'ETY, adj. Consisting of suet; resembling suet.—If 
the matter forming a wen resembles fat or a suety substance, 
it is called steatoma. Sharp. 
SUEVRE, a town near the central part of France, in the 
department of the Loire and Cher, with 1300 inhabitants ; 
9 miles north-east of Blois. 
SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS (Caius), was the son of 
Suetonius Lenis, tribune of a legion in the time of Otho, 
and born about the beginning of the reign of Vespasian, 
and died after A. D. 117. He is designated by Pliny the 
younger, as one of the “ Scholastici.” He was probably a 
teacher of grammar and rhetoric, composed fictitious plead¬ 
ings, and perhaps sometimes pleaded real causes. With 
Pliny he was intimate, and was indebted to him for several 
favours. By his interest he obtained the dignity of military 
tribune, and also the “ jus trium liberorum,” granted to 
him by the emperor Trajan, though he was childless. He 
was afterwards secretary to the emperor Adrian, though he 
lost this office by his indiscreet familiarity with the empress 
Sabina; an incident which occurred about the year 121, but 
how long, or in what condition he afterwards lived, no re¬ 
cords inform us. 
Suidas calls him a “ grammarian,” and ascribes to him 
several works: but all are lost, except his Lives of the 
Caesars, his Lives of eminent grammarians, and a small part 
of those of eminent rhetoricians. His work of the Lives of 
the first twelve emperors, down to Domitian inclusively, is 
one of the most interesting remains of ancient history ; for 
without being distinguished by style or sentiment, it abounds 
with anecdotes relating to the manners, characters, aud in¬ 
cidents of those times, which no where else occur. Some 
of the facts which he relates have been doubted; but his 
general character and mode of writing narratives, acquit him 
of any intentional misrepresentation; though he indicates a 
propensity to pay undue attention to vulgar tales and sur¬ 
mises. 
SUEUR (Eustachius Le), was born at Paris in 1617, the 
son of an obscure sculptor; who, upon discovering his son’s 
inclination for painting, placed him as a pupil with Simon 
Vouet. 
He appears to have drawn his taste from prints after the 
compositions of Raphael, as he never was out of his native 
country; and there were not many pictures of the Roman 
school at that time in France. It may be fairly said, that a 
portion of the spirit of Raphael had taken up its abode with 
him. The same kind of subjects interested him, and above 
all he was actuated by the same devotedness to the subject, 
of whatever nature it were. With him, as with Raphael, it 
led to the composition, and controlled his imagination in 
the execution of it: as is fully exemplified in his series of 
pictures on the life of St. Bruno. 
The brilliancy of Le Sueur’s talents soon caused their em¬ 
ployment; and at the age of 23 (in 1640), he was elected 
a member of the Royal Academy at Paris, and painted 
upon his admission a picture of St. Paul casting out a Devil. 
In 1649, he was engaged upon the great work in which his 
fame principally reposes, viz., the Life of St. Bruno, which 
he painted in 22 pictures, for the convent of the Chartreux 
in Paris: they were afterwards purchased by the king of 
France, and now form part of the gallery at the Luxem¬ 
bourg. This celebrated series of compositions has suffered 
exceedingly by the hand of time; and still more, have so 
severely endured the unhallowed touch of picture-cleaners 
and restorers, that we cannot now form a perfect judgment 
of their original beauty. The compositions remain, but 
most of the faces of the figures have been re-touched, so that 
expression is weakened or destroyed: the original colouring, 
which happily of necessity simple, has been disturbed ; and 
it would be harsh to attach to Le S ,ieur the defects of their 
present condition in this respect. There is, however, suf¬ 
ficient evidence in them of this ingenious artist’s superior 
feeling and acquirements. He was only three years employed 
upon them; and when his youth is considered, they must be 
regarded as emanating from a mind of no common mould. 
His largest work is the Condemnation of St. Gervaise and 
St. Protais, now in the gallery of the Louvre; it was painted 
soon after the series above-mentioned; but is an attempt to 
combine somewhat of the taste of his master with his own, 
as if he were controlled by his employers. It is more con¬ 
fused in forms, and stronger and more varied in colour, than 
his pictures usually are; and is not the better for it. His 
picture of the Burning of the Magic Books at Ephesus, has 
infinitely more character and pathos; but is eminently de¬ 
fective in colour: in which quality the pictures of the Muses, 
painted by him, and in the Gallery also, are by far his most 
perfect productions. He died at the early age of 38, in 1655. 
SUEZ, a city of Egypt, on the borders of Arabia, and 
remarkable by its situation at the head of the Red Sea. Al¬ 
though there must always have been a place of trade in this 
vicinity, the actual city of Suez appears to have been of 
modern origin. According to D’Anville, it occupies the 
site of the ancient Arsinoe ; but in the opinion of Volney, 
that place was situated farther north, towards the bottom of 
the gulf. The celebrated Arabian city called Kolzum. 
which among that people gave its name to the Red Sea, was 
also placed farther to the north. Its ruins may still be traced; 
but the sea has so far retired, that ships could no longer en¬ 
ter its harbour. This circumstance enforced the removal to 
Suez, which appears to have taken place about the beginning 
of the 16th century. It soon became a flourishing mart, 
being at once the emporium of the trade with India, and the 
rendezvous of the numberless pilgrims, who from every part 
of the Turkish empire, repaired to the holy shrine of Mecca. 
The assemblage of these, though the stationary population 
was never large, produced often an immense crowd. When 
Niebuhr was there, Suez appeared to him as populous as 
Cairo. Since that time it has greatly declined, in conse¬ 
quence of the diminution both of the general trade of the 
Red Sea, and of the concourse to Mecca. It sustained, also, 
irreparable injury from the wanton devastations committed 
by the French. Great part of the trade of Suez being 
carried on by the Bey, or Mameluke chiefs, each of whom 
had a factor stationed at that place, the French, in revenge 
for the spirited resistance made by that race, demolished a 
great part of Suez; and the disturbed state of the country 
ever since has afforded little opportunity for repairing these 
injuries. 
Suez, though a maritime place, is so situated, that vessels 
cannot approach nearer than two miles and a half from the 
town. From this point the water is divided into three chan¬ 
nels, which unite into one before reaching the town, and 
through which the Arab boats, called dows, and other small 
vessels, can pass. The surrounding country is a complete 
desert, composed of a mere bed of rock, slightly covered 
with sand. Trees, gardens, and meadows, are entirely un¬ 
known, and scarcely a plant is to be seen. All provisions 
and necessaries of life must be brought from Cairo. There 
is also an entire deficiency of water, unless of the most offen¬ 
sive and noxious description. It is clear indeed to the eye, 
but most disgusting to the smell and taste; so that in strangers 
it even occasions vomiting. By long keeping it loses some 
of its bad qualities; but it is then sold at a very high price. 
This bad water also is brought from the distance of about 
two leagues, at the opposite side of an arm of the gulf. The 
town 
