. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . cupied the same site as the modern• .illed Kattron or Seraglio, which lies uponthe eastern side of the bland. There are smains of the ancient walls; and fragments of marbleare found, with which, U we have already seen, thepublic buildings in antiquity were decorated. Arange of mountains, about 3000 feet in height, runs• Siphnos from SE. to N\V.; and on the highground between this mountain and the eastern sideof the island, about 1000 i lie five neat villages, of which Starri is the principal. • from 4000 to 5000 inhabitants;and the town of Kottro
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . cupied the same site as the modern• .illed Kattron or Seraglio, which lies uponthe eastern side of the bland. There are smains of the ancient walls; and fragments of marbleare found, with which, U we have already seen, thepublic buildings in antiquity were decorated. Arange of mountains, about 3000 feet in height, runs• Siphnos from SE. to N\V.; and on the highground between this mountain and the eastern sideof the island, about 1000 i lie five neat villages, of which Starri is the principal. • from 4000 to 5000 inhabitants;and the town of Kottron about another 1000. Theclimate is healthy, and many of the inhallive to The island is well cultivated, but does not produce sufficient f»4 for its popu-lation, and accordingly many Siphnians areto emigrate, and are found in considerable numbers inAthens, Smyrna, and Constantinople. (Tournefort,. <fc vol. i. p. 134, seq. trans].; Fiedler,VoL ii. p. 125, seq.; Boss, Rtise auf denGrieck. Inseln, vol. i. p. 138, seq.) SIPTLUS. loll. COIN of sirnxos. SI PI A, in Gallia, is placed by the Table on aroute from Condate (Rennes)to Juliomagus(Angers).The distance from Condate to Sipia is xvi. and thisdistance brings us to a little river Seche at a placecalled Yi-seche, the Vi being probably a corruptionof Vadum. The same distance xvi. measnred fromIt-secAe brings us to Combaristum (Combrt) on theroad to Angers. But see the article Seche is a branch of the Viluiue (DAnviile,Notice, dc). [G. L.] SIPONTUM, or SIPUNTUM, but in Greek al-way- SIPDS (2i7roDj -ovvros : Eth. InrowTtos, Si-pontinus: Sta Maria di Siponto), a city of Apulia,situated on the coast of the Adriatic, immediately the great promontory of Garganus, and in thebight of the deep bay formed by that promontorywith the prolongation of the coast of Apulia. (Strab. -~4.) This bay is now called the GMaitfredtjnia, from the city of that name which issituated within a few miles of the site of Sipontum
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