Sacrifice cannot alter fate, 84; to keep off hail, 181. St. Elmo’s Fire, 11, 37. ^_a_ Sallust, 279. Roman historian, 86–34 B.C. Sarmatian, 5, 233 (pl.). Roughly speaking, the S. part of Russia. Saturn, the planet, 275 (2), 284, 303. Scipio, 46 (2). The elder Sc. Africanus, victor of Hannibal at Zama, 202 B.C. Scironian (Wind), 211. Scylla, 153; _see_ Charybdis. Scythia, 180, 208. Term used very loosely of region in Central and Northern Asia, but at times extending to Europe, as far west as the Danube. Sarmatia of one age was part of Scythia of another. Sea, unity of the, 125; coeval with the world, 135; throws ashore ill-smelling deposits, 142; share of, in final destruction of the earth, 143, 150; current of, from Black Sea, 176; subterranean, 234. Sea and land breezes, 198. Seafaring, condemned, 216. Sea-water, purged of its salt within the earth, 116. Sejanus, 9. Notorious instrument of Tiberius; put to death 31. Sela (gleams in the sky), 39. Self, bondage of slavery to, 113. Septemtrio (Wind), 210. ^_a_ Sextii, 307. Father and son in the time of Augustus and Nero respectively; taught a combination of Stoic and Pythagorean doctrines. Sheep, destruction of, during Campanian earthquake of A.D. 63, 259. Sicily and Sicilian, 114, 138, 142 (2), 153, 159, 166 (2), 235, 262, 263. Sidon, 256. Snow, melting in Ethiopia erroneously supposed to be the cause of the annual rise of the Nile, 173; supplies some European rivers, 173; on European mountains, 173; origin of, 178, 179, 182, 186; said to feel colder to the feet when dry and hard than when slushy and half melted, 180; artificial use of, 187. ^_a_ Sophocles, 172. Soul, divine origin of, 6; to be rescued from error and fear of death, 103. Sound less rapid than light, 64. Spain and Spanish, 6, 7, 110, 263. Springs, 118, 121, 127, 136, 142. Squalls, origin of, 204; short duration of, 281. Stabiae, 221. Small town on coast of Campania. Stars, fed by emanations from the earth, 55, 198, 244; influence of, in human affairs, 81; nature of, 273; transits of, 284; supposed small size of, 288; place of, in sky, 297; varying colours of, 300. Stars, falling, 10, 11, 37, 99, 296. Statonia, 139. Town in Etruria, about 15 miles from the coast. Stoics, 32, 40, 58, 66, 95, 119, 124, 135, 151, 180, 181 (2), 210, 251, 291, 292, 293, 295 (my school). ^_a_ Strato, 240. Succeeded Theophrastus as head of the Peripatetic school in 288 B.C. Native of Lampsacus in Mysia on the Hellespont. Streaks in the sky, 33. Strymon, 5. River of Thrace and Macedonia (Struma). The text of the passage is very doubtful. Styx, 137. River in Arcadia. Submergence of Helice and Buris, 254, 257, 259, 267, 276, 289; of Atalanta, 256; of Sidon, 256; of other cities and nations, 267.