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 876 SALA. it was doubted whether the Saites colonised Attica, or the Athenians Sals; and Diodorus says incon- sistently, in one passage, that Sais sent a colony to Athens (i. 28. § 3), and in another (v. 57. § 4.5) that it was itself founded by Athenians. The prin- cipal value of these statements consists in their establishinir the Graeco-Aegyptiau character of the Saite people. The ruins of Sais consist of vast heaps of brick, mingled with fragments of granite and Syenite marble. Of its numerous structures the position of one only can be surmised. The lake of Sa-el- Hadjar, which is still traceable, was at the back of the temple of Neitli: but it remains for future travellers to determine the sites of the other sacred or civil structures of Sais. (CliampoHion, VEgyiHe, vol. ii. p. 2 1 9 ; Id. Lettres, 50 — 53 ; Wilkinson, Mod. Egypt and Thchcs.) [W. B. D.] SALA (2dAaj). 1. A river in Germany, be- tween which and the Rhine, according to Strabo (vii. p. 291), Drusus Gernianicus lost his life. That the river was on the east of the Rhine is im.- plied also in the account which Livy {Epit. 140) and Dion Cassius give of the occurrence ; and it has therefore been conjectured with some probability tliat the Sala is the same river as the modern Saale, a tributary of the Elbe, commonly called the Tlmringian Saale ; though others regard the Sala as identical with the Yssel. 2. A river of Germany, alluded to by Tacitus (Ann. xiii. 57), who, without mentioning its name, calls it " flumen gignendo sale fecundum." It formed the boundary between the country of the Chatti and Hermunduri and near its banks were great salt- works, about which these two tribes were perpetually involved in war. From this circumstance it is clear that the river alluded to by Tacitus is none other but the Saale in Franconia, a tributary of the Moe- nus or Main ; and that the salt-springs are, in all probability, those of the modern town of Kissingen. 3. A town in Upper Pannonia, on the road {'rom Sabaria to Poetovium (Ptol. ii. 15. § 4; It. Ant. p. 262, where it is called Salle ; Geogr. Eav. iv. 19, where it is called Salla). Some identify the place with the town of Szala Egerssek, and others with Liivir on the river Szala. (Comp. Muchar, Noricum, i. p. 261.) 4. A town in the south-western part of Phrygia, on the frontiers of Caria and Pisidia, on the north- west of Cibyra. (Ptol. v. 2. § 26.) 5. A town in the north-western part of Annenia Elinor, on the eastern slope of Mount Moschus. (Ptol. v. 13. § 10.) [L. S.] SALA (SctAa, Ptol. ii. 4. § 12), a town of the Turdetani in Hispania Baetica between Ptueci and Nabrissa. [T. H. D.] SALA {Ma, Ptol. iv. 1. § 2 ; Plin. v. 1), a town of Mauretania, on the W. coast of Africa, situated near a river of the same name, " noticed by the Romans as the extreme object of their power and almost of their geography." (Gibbon, c. i.) In the Antonine Itinerary the name occurs as Sala- conia, which has been supposed to be a corruption of Sala Colonia ; but from the Vienna MS. it appears that the word " conia" has been inserted by a later hand. {Itin. Anton, ed. Parthey, p. 3.) The mo- dern Sla or Sallce, near the moutli of the river Bu- Regrah, retains the name, though the site of the ancient town must be sought at Rabat, on the S. side of the river, where there are Roman remains. (Barth, Wanderungen, pp. 32, 37, 50.) [E. B. J.] SALAWIS. SALACIA. 1. (2aAoK6i'a, Ptol. ii. 5. § 3), a municipal town of Lusitania, in the territory of the Turdetani, to the NW. of Pax Julia and to the SW. of Ebora. It appears from inscriptions to have had the surname of Urbs Imperatoria. (Gru- ter, p. 13. 16; Mionnet, i. p. 4; Sestini, p. 16.) Salacia was celebrated for its mannfiicture of fine woollen cloths, (Plin. viii. 48. s. 73; Strab. iii. p. 144, with the note of Groskurd.) Now Alager do Sal. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. xiii. p. 115, xiv. p. 241 ; comp. Mela, iii. 1; It. Ant. pp. 417, 418, and 422.) 2. A town of the Callaici Bracarii in the XW. of Hispania Tarraconensis. {Itin. Ant. p. 422.) Iden- tified either with Salamonde or Pomheiro. [T. H. D.] SALAMBOREIA (SaAa^ugcipeia), a town of Cappadocia, in the district Garsauritis. (Ptol. v. 6. § 14; Tab. Petit., where it is called Salabe- rina.) [L. S.] SALA]II'NIA. [Salamis.] SALAMI'NIAS, a town in Coele-Svria in the district Chalybonitis {It. Anton, p. 197; jYo<. Imp.), which Reland {Palaest. i. p. 217) identifies with Salamias (2aAd|Uias) in the Not. Leonis Imp., and with Salemjat in Abulfeda (Tab. Sgr. p. 105). It is said still to bear the name Selmen. (Richter, Wallfahrten, p. 238.) SA'LAMIS (SaAa^i's, Aesch. Pers. 880; Scyl. p. 41 ; Ptol. V. 14. § 3, viii. 20. § 5 ; Stadiasm. §§ 288, 289; Pomp. Mela, ii. 7. § 5; Plin. v. 35; Horat. Carm. i. 729 ; SaAa^uiV, Eustath ad II. ii. 558 ; '^aAa/j.ias, ]Ialala, Chron. xii. p. 313, ed. Bonn: Eth. SaAauiVioj, Bbckh, Inscr. nos. 2625, 2638, 2639), a city on the E. coast of Cyprus, IS jI. P. from Tremithus, and 24 M. P. from Chytri. {Pent. Tab.) Legend assigned its foundation to the Aeacid Teucer, whose fortunes formed the sub- ject of a tragedy by Sophocles, called TevKpos, and of one with a similar title by Pacuvius. (Cic. de Orat. i. 58, ii. 46.) The people of Salamis showed the tomb of the archer Teucer (Aristot. Anthologia, i. 8, 112), and the reigning princes at the time of the Ionic revolt were Greeks of the Teucrid " Gens," although one of them bore the Phoenician name of Siromus (Hiram). (Herod, v. 104.) In the 6th cen- tury b. c. Salamis was already an important town, and in alliance with the Battiad princes of Gyrene, though the king Evelthon refused to assist in rein- stating Arcesilaus III. upon the throne. (Herod, iv. 162.) The descendant of this Evelthon — the despot Gorgus — was unwilling to join in the Ionic revolt, but his brother Onesilus shut him out of the gates, and taking the command of the united forces of Salamis and the other cities, flew to arms. The battle which crushed the independence of Cyprus was fought under the walls of Salamis, which was compelled to submit to its former lord, Gorgus. (Herod, v. 103, 104, 108, 110.) Afterwards it was besieged by Anaxicrates, the successor of Cimon, but when the convention was made with the Persians the Athenians did not press the siege. (Diod. xii. 13.) After the peace of Antalcidas the Persians had to struggle for ten years with all their forces against the indefatigable and gentle Evagoras. Isocrates composed a panegyric of this prince ad- dressed to his son Nicocles, which, with every allowance for its partiality, gives an interesting pic- ture of the struggle which the Hellenic Evagoras waged against the Phoenician and Oriental influence under which Salamis and Cyprus had languished. (Comp. Grote, Hist, of Greece, vol. x. c. Ixxvi.)