Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . and, 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 totlie 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 (^Mittel Italien, pi. 2). SIGRIANE. the description of the remains tLemselves, see theAnnali delV Instituto Archeologico for 1829, —87, 357—360; Classical Museum, vol. ii. —170; Abek
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . and, 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 totlie 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 (^Mittel Italien, pi. 2). SIGRIANE. the description of the remains tLemselves, see theAnnali delV Instituto Archeologico for 1829, —87, 357—360; Classical Museum, vol. ii. —170; Abeken, J\Jiltel Italien, p. 140, &c.)The only other remains within the circuit of thewalls are a temple (now converted into the churchof S. Pietro) of Roman date, and built of regularlySluared blocks of tufo; and nearly adjoining it acircular reservoir for water, of considerable size andlined with the opus Signinum. (Annali, I. c. ) Several inscriptions of impeiial date are alsopreserved iu the modern town. [] SILA, 999. GATE OF SIG^IA. SIGPJANE (v ^.lyptavv, Strab. si. p. 525), adistrict of Media Atropatene, near the CaspianGates. Ptolemy calls it ^lypiaviKT] (vii. 2. §6). [V.] SIGRIUM (Siypiov), the westernmost promontoryof the island of Lesbos, which now bears the nameof Siffri (Strab. xiii. pp. C16, 618.) Stephanus B.(s. V.) calls Sigrium a harbour of Lesbos. [L. S.] SIGULONES (^lyovXaives), a German tribementioned by Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 11) as inhabitingthe Cimbrian Chersonesus, to the north of theSaxones, but is otherwise unknown. [L. S.] SIGYNNES (liyvvves, Herod, v. 9; ,ApoU. Rhod. iv. 320; Orph. A7-(/. 759; Xiyivvoi,Strab. xi. p. 520). The only nanje of any Trans-Danubian population, other than Scythian, knownto Herodotus was that of the Sigynnes, whom heseems to have described as the Thracians describedthem to either himself or his informants. TheThracian notion of one of Sigynnes was thathe wore a Median dress, and considered ad
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