Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . r yet been thoroughly examined, and it is that some light may even yet be thrown ujjouthe site of this celebrated city: especially if themarshy plain in which it is situated should ever hereclaimed and cultivated. There is no doubt that ifthis were done, it would again be a tract of surpass-ing fertility: it is cited as such by Varro, who tellsus that in Sybaritano wheat was s:iid to producea hundred-fold. (Varr. R. R. i. 44.) Even at thepresent day the drier spots produce very rich cropsof corn. (Swinburne, I. c.) The river Sybaris was said
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . r yet been thoroughly examined, and it is that some light may even yet be thrown ujjouthe site of this celebrated city: especially if themarshy plain in which it is situated should ever hereclaimed and cultivated. There is no doubt that ifthis were done, it would again be a tract of surpass-ing fertility: it is cited as such by Varro, who tellsus that in Sybaritano wheat was s:iid to producea hundred-fold. (Varr. R. R. i. 44.) Even at thepresent day the drier spots produce very rich cropsof corn. (Swinburne, I. c.) The river Sybaris was said to be so named by theGreek colonists from a fountain of that name atBura in Achaia (Strab. viii. p. 386): it had theproperty, according to some authors, of making horsesshy that drank of its waters. (Pseud. Arist. Mi-rah. 169 ; Strab. vi. p. 263.) It is a considerablestream, and has its sources in the Apennines near3/u7-ano, flows beneath Castrovilluri, and receivesseveral minor tributary streams before it joins thoCrathis. [E. 11. ]. COIN OF SYBARIS. SYBOTA. [CoKCYRA, p. 670.] SYBRITA {tuSpna, Scyl. p. 18 ; :S,ov€ptTci,Ptol. iii. 17. § 10; ^uv§piTO?, Ilierocles; ^iSupTus,Polyb. ap. Steph. B. s. v.: Eih. ZiSpvrios, lilickh,Corp. Inscr. vol. ii. p. 637), a town of Crete, 8 M. Eleutherna (Pcut. Tab.), and famous for itsnumerous and beautiful silver coins, which, thoughsome of them belong to a very early period, are thefinest specimens of the Cretan mint; the types arealways connected with the worship of Dionysus orHermes. (Eckhel, vol. ii. p. 320.) [E. B. J.] SYCAjMINA (^^uKa/xivwi TToAis), a city of Pales-tine, placed by Strabo between Acre (A/crj) andCaesareia Palaestinae (ST^arajfoy TTvpyu^),{hv. nameof which alone rcmaineil in his time. There were, liesays, many such ; of which he specifies this and Bu-colon (BuvKoAuv) and Crocodeilou (K/xKcoSeiAoif).(Strab. xvi. p. ) It was here that Ptolemy I,.i-thyrus, son of Cleopatra, landed the army of 30,(100men wli
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