Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Silvium, Sinum

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S - The Seven Sages

Sagitta - Salutatio

Salve - Sardemisus

Sardes - Satyrĭcon

Satyrus - Scarpōna

Scodra - Scymnus

Scyphus - Selēné

Seleucīa - Septerion

Septimius Geta - Sestertius

Sestiānae Arae - Sicca Veneria

Sichaeus - Bearers of Silver Shields

Silvium - Sităcé

Singitĭcus Sinus

Sirbōnis Lacus

Sisenna , L. Cornelius

Sitalces - Soli

Solĭdus - Spartăcus

Spartăcus - Stabiae

Stable - Steward

Stheneboea - Stroma

Stromăta - Suggestus

Suggrundarium - Sylae

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Sinum

or Sinus (δῖνος). A bowl used for wine or milk. It was large and deep and round in shape (Varro, L. L. v. 123; Verg. Ecl. vii. 33).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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