. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . inite antiquity; on the other hand, thehistorical notices that we possess concerning Signiaall tend to prove that it was not one of the mostancient cities of Latium, and that there could nothave existed a city of such magnitude previous tothe settlement of the Roman colony under Tarquin.(For the discussion of this question as well as for * The annexed figure is taken from that givenby Abeken (Mittd Ilalien, pi. 2). SIGRIANE. the J tlie remains themselves, see the Armali delT Institute Archeologico for 1 S-Jl.», —87, 357—360; Classical Museum, vo
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . inite antiquity; on the other hand, thehistorical notices that we possess concerning Signiaall tend to prove that it was not one of the mostancient cities of Latium, and that there could nothave existed a city of such magnitude previous tothe settlement of the Roman colony under Tarquin.(For the discussion of this question as well as for * The annexed figure is taken from that givenby Abeken (Mittd Ilalien, pi. 2). SIGRIANE. the J tlie remains themselves, see the Armali delT Institute Archeologico for 1 S-Jl.», —87, 357—360; Classical Museum, vol. ii. (57—170; Abeken, Mitiel TtaUen, p. 140, Sec.)The only other remains within the circuit of thewhIIs are a temple (now converted into the churchof 5. Jittm) of Roman date, and luiilt of regularlysquared blocks of tufo; and nearly adjoining it acircular reservoir for water, of considerable size andlined with the opus Signinum. (Annali, L c. inscriptions of imperial date are alsopreserved in the modem town. []. GATE OF SIGNIA. SIGRIAXE (tj liyptavi), Strab. xi. p. 525), adistrict of Media Atropatene, near the CaspianGates. Ptolemy culls it ~) (vii. 2. §6). [V.] SIGRIUM (Siypioc), the westernmost promontoryof the island of Lesbos, which now bears the name (Strab. xiii. pp. 616, 618.) Stephanus B.(»•. p.) calls Sigrinm a harbour of Lesbos. [L. S.]SIGULONES (\wvss), a German tribementioned by Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 11) as inhabitingthe Cimbrian Chersonesus, to the north of thees. but is otherwise unknown. [L. S.] SIGYNNES (Iryvvvts, Herod, v. 9; Siyvvoi, Rhod. iv. 320; Orph. Arg. 759; ;:i. p. 520). The only name of any Trans-:in population, other than Scythian, knownts Berodotus was that of the Sigynnes, whom heto have described as the Thracians describedthem to either himself or his informants. TheThracian notion of one of these Sigynnes was thathe wore a Median dress, and considered himself adescendant of the Me
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