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 in42 SUEZUPAKA. W. coast of Libya Interior, which had its source in JIuunt Sa^apola, and di.schar£;ed itself to the S. of the point of Atlas Jlajor; now the Sus. [T. H. D.] SUBZUPAKA, a place in Thracia, on the road from Philippopolis to Hadrianopoli.s {/tin. Ant. pp. 137, 231). It is called Castozobra or Castra larba in the Iliii. Jlieros. (p. 568), and Kaa-rpd^apSa by Procopius (de Aed. iv. 11. p. 305, ed. Bonn), and still retains the name of Castro Zarvi, or simply Znrvi. It has, however, also been identified with Uirynenly and Coiunluu. In the T(d>. Pciit. it is called Castra Rubra. [T. H. D.] SU'CCABAR {Zovxa.ea(,f>i, Ptol. iv. 2. § 25, 3. § 20, xiii. 13. § 11), a town in the interior of Jlan- retania Caesariensis, lying to the SE. of the mouth of the Chinalaph, and a Roman colony with the name of Colonia Augusta (Plin. v. 2. s. 1). It appears in Ammianus Blarcellinus under the name of Oppidum Sugabanitanum (xxix. 5). Mannert (x. 2. p. 451) would identify it with the present Mttzuna, where Leo Africanus (Lohrsbach, p. 382) found con.siderable remains of an ancient city, with inscriptions, &c. [T. H. D.] SUCCI or SUCCORUM ANGUSTIAE, the principal pass of Jlount Haemus in Thrace, between I'hilippopolis and Serdica, with a town of the same name. (Amm. JIarc. xxi. 10. § 2, xxii. 2. § 2, xxvi. 10. § 4.) It is called 'S.ovkls by Sozomenus (ii. 22), and Sourroxees by Xicephorus (ix 13). Now the pass of Sstdu Derhend or Deniir Kapi (Comp. V. Hammer, Gesch. des Osman. Reichs, i. d. 17.5.) [T.H. D.]' SUCCO'SA (Sou/c/coio-a, Ptol. ii. 6. § 68), a town of the Ilergetes in Hispania Tarraconensis [T.H.D.] SUCCOTH (LXX. S.oKx'^ed. Vat., 1^x<^, Alex.), a city of the tribe of Gad in the valley, formerly part of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (Josh. xiii. 27). It is connected with Zarthan in 1 Kiiiffs, vii. 46, where Hiram is said to have cast liis brasen vessels, &c. for Solomon's temple " in the plain of Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan,'" elsewhere called Zaretan, mentioned in the account of the miraculous passage of the Israelites {Josh. iii. 16). The city doubt- less derived its name from the incident in the life of Jacob mentioned in Genesis (xxxiii. 17) where the name is translated by the LXX. as in the parallel passage in Jo.sephus (.4 w<. i.21.§ 1), 2»c7jfai (booths). It was therefore south of the Jabbok, and the last .station of Jacob before he crossed the Jordan to- wards Shechem. S. Jerome, in his commentary on the passage, says, " Sochoth : est usque hodie civi- tas trans Jordaneni hoc vocabulo in parte Scytho- ])oleos,"' from which some writers have inferred that Scythopolis may have derived its name from this jilace in its vicinity (Robinson, £ibl. lies. vol. iii. ]). 175. n. 5), and this hypothesis is supported by the respectable names of Reland, Gesenius, and RoseniuuUer. A place called Succat is still pointed out by the Arabs south of jBeisaw (=Bethshan = Scythopolis), on the east side of Jordan, near the mouth of Wudy Mus. [G. W.] SUCCUBO, a town in Hispania Baetica, in the jurisdiction of Corduba. (Plin. iii. 1. s. 3.) Capito- iinus mentions it under the name of Municipium Succubitanum. (Anton. Phil. 1; of. Ylorez, Esp. Sagr. xii. p. 302.) [T. H. D.] 8UCHE (jh 'S.ovxov (ppuvp'wv, Slrab. xvi. p. 770), the SiicHiJi of the Hebrews (2 Chron. xii. 3), and the modern Suachim, was a harbour on the western coast of the Red Sea, just above the bay of SUEL. Adule, lat. 16° N. It was occupied by the Aegyp- tians and Greeks successively as a fort and trading station; but the native population of Suche were the Sabae Aethiopians. [W. B. D.] SUCIDAVA (Sowi'Saua, Ptol. iii. 10. § 11), a town in Moesia Inferior, between Durostorum and Axiopolis. (/<i». ylwi. p. 224; Tab. Pent.; Not. Imp.) Procopius calls it ^uKiSdga {de Aed. iv. 7. p. 298, ed. Bonn) and Si/d'gfSa (76. p. 291). Vari- ously identified with Osenik, or Assenik, and Sato- nou. [T. H. D.] SUCRO {■S.ovKpuiv, Ptol. ii. 6. § 14), a river of Hispania Tarraconensis, which rose in the country of the Celtiberi in a S. oft'shoot of Mount Idubeda, and after a considerable bend to the SE. discharged itself in the Sucronensis Sinus, to the S. of Valentia. (Strab. iii. pp. 158, 159, 1C3, 167; Mela, ii. 6; Plin. iii, 3. ss. 4, 5, 11.) Now the Xucar. [T. H. D.] SUCRON (^ovKpoiv, Strab. iii. p. 158), a town of the Edetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the river of the same name, midway between Carthago Nova and the river Iberus. (^Itin. Ant. p. 400; of. Cie. Balb. 2; Liv. sxviii. 24, xxix. 19; App. B. C. i. 110; Pint. &?•<. 19, &c.) It was already destroyed in the time of Pliny (iii. 3. s. 4). Variously placed at Alclra, Siieca, and Cullera. (Cf. Florez, Esp. Sagr. v. p. 35; Marca, ffkp. ii. 5.) [T. H. D.] SUCRONENSIS SINUS, a bay on the E. coast of Hispania Tarraconensis, now the Gulf of Valencia. (Mela, ii. 6 and 7.) [T. H. D.] SUDE'NI (SouStjj'oi'), a tribe in the east of Germany, about the Gabreta Silva, and in clo.se proximity to the Marcomanni. (Ptol. ii. 11. § 15; comp. SiDKNi.) [L. S.] SUDEUTUJI (•S.ovSfprov: Eth. Sudert;inus), a town in the southern part of Etruria, apparently situated between Volsinii and the sea-coast, but vo have no clue to its precise situation. The name itfdf is uncertain. The MSS. of Pliny, who enu- merates it among the municipal towns of Etruria, vary between Sudert.ini and Subertani ; and thu same variation is found in Livy (xxvi. 23), who mentions a prodigy as occurring "in foro Sudertano." Ptolemy on the other Jiand writes the name 2oi'- Sepvov, for which we should probably read 2oi''- SepTou. (Ptol. iii. 1. § 50.) Cluver would identify it, without any apparent reason, with the Jlaternuni of the Itineraries, and place it at Farnese. Suo-ano, a few miles NE. of Sova/ia (Suana), would seem to have a more plausible claim, but both identifications are merely conjectural. (Cluver, Jtal. p. 517; Dennis's Etn/ria, vol. i. p. 478.) [E. H. B.] SUDE'TI MONTES (Soi^Stjto opv), a r.ange of mountains in the SE, of Germany, on the N. of the Gabreta Silva, thus forming the western part of the ran^e still called the Sudeten, in the NW. of Bo- hemia. (Ptol. ii. 11. §§ 7, 23.) [L. S.] SUE'BUS (Soi^TjSos), a river on the north coast of Germany, between the Albis and Viadus, which flows into the Baltic at a distance of 850 stadia to the west of the mouth of the Viadus (Marcian. p. 53), and which, according to Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 1), divided at its mouth into several branches. Not- withstanding these explicit statements, it is ex- tremely difficult to identify the river, whence some regard it as the Peetie, others as the Warne, and others again as the Viadus or Oder itself, or rather the central branch of it, which is called the Swine or Schweene. [L. S.] SUEL (SoDeA., Ptol. ii. 4. § 7). a town of His- pania Baetica, on the road from Malaca to Gades.