Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . a loftyhill, now called the Monte Catalfuno, at the foot ofwhich is a small cove or port, with a fort, still calledthe Castello di Solanto, and a station for the tunnyfishery. The traces of two ancient roads, pavedwith large blocks of stone, which led up to the city,may still be followed, and the whole summit of thehill is covered with fragments of ancient walls andfoundations of buildings. Among may botraced the remains of two temples, of which somecapitals, portions of friezes, &c. have been discovered;but it is impossible to trace the plan an
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . a loftyhill, now called the Monte Catalfuno, at the foot ofwhich is a small cove or port, with a fort, still calledthe Castello di Solanto, and a station for the tunnyfishery. The traces of two ancient roads, pavedwith large blocks of stone, which led up to the city,may still be followed, and the whole summit of thehill is covered with fragments of ancient walls andfoundations of buildings. Among may botraced the remains of two temples, of which somecapitals, portions of friezes, &c. have been discovered;but it is impossible to trace the plan and design ofthese or any other edifices. They are probably allof them of the period of the Roman cisterns for water also remain, as well assepulchres; and some fragments of sculpture of con-siderable merit have been discovered on the site.(Fazell. f/e Keh. Sic. viii. p. 352; Amico, Lex. ii. j)p. 192—195; Hoares Class. Tour, vol. 234; Serra di Falco, A7it. delta Sicilia, vol. v. —67.) [E. H. B.]. COIN OF SOLUS. SOLYGEIA, SOLYGEIUS. [CoRiNTHfs, , b, 685, a.] SOLYMA (ru 2,6\vixa), a high mountain nearPhaselis in Lycia. (Strab. xiv. p. 666.) As themountain is not mentioned by any other writer, it isprobably only another name for the Chimaera Mons,tlie Olympus, or the mountains of the Solynii,mentioned by Homer. (Od. v. 283.) In the Sta-diasmus it is simply called the opos fxiya: it extendsabout 70 miles northward from Phaselis, and itshighest point, now called ^ immediatelyabove the ruins of , which exactly corre-sponds with the statement of Strabo. (Leake, AsiaJ//«or, p. 189.) [I-S.] SOLYMI. [Lycia.]SOMENA. [SiMENA.] SONAUTES, according to Pliny (vi. 1), a riverin Pontus; while, according to ApolNmius Rhodius(ii. 747), the Acheron in Bithynia was ancientlycalled Soonantes (SooicauT?)?). [L. S.] , a jjlace in Mocsia Superior, on tlieborders of Thrace, at the pass of M(nint Scomius,called Sticci. {Itin. lli
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