Sinis

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Sophocles, Antigone, 277

English > Greek (Woodhouse)

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Σίνις, -ιδος, ὁ.

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Sĭnis: is, m., = Σίνις,
I a mythical robber on the Isthmus of Corinth, who bound travellers to the tops of pine-trees which he had bent to the ground, and then, by letting go his hold, hurled them into the air; he was killed at last by Theseus, Prop. 3 (4), 22, 37; Ov. M. 7, 440; id. H. 2, 70; Stat. Th. 12, 576.