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|lshtext=<b>Sīsyphus</b>: ([[anciently]] Sīsŭpus and Sīsĭpus; the [[last]] in Inscr. R. N. 4472 Momms.; cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. Tria, p. 26), i, m., = [[Σίσυφος]].<br /><b>I</b> Son of Æolus, [[king]] of [[Corinth]], [[famous]] for his [[cunning]] and robberies. He [[was]] killed by [[Theseus]]. His [[punishment]] in the [[infernal]] regions [[was]] to [[roll]] a [[stone]] up [[hill]] [[which]] [[constantly]] rolled [[back]] [[again]], Hyg. Fab. 60; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 616; Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10; Ov. M. 4, 459; 4, 465; 13, 26; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 23; Hor. C. 2, 14, 20; id. Epod. 17, 68 al.: Ulixi Sisyphique [[prudentia]], Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; cf. [[vafer]], Hor. S. 2, 3, 21.—Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sīsy-phĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to [[Sisyphus]]: labores, Prop. 2, 17 (3, 9), 7; 2, 20 (3, 13), 32: [[cervix]], Sen. Herc. Oet. 942: [[portus]], i. e. [[Corinth]], Stat. Th. 2, 380: [[Isthmus]], of [[Corinth]], Sil. 14, 51: [[opes]], i. e. of [[Creusa]] (as [[daughter]] of [[Creon]], [[king]] of [[Corinth]]), Ov. H. 12, 204: [[Ulixes]] [[sanguine]] [[cretus]] Sisyphio ([[because]] [[Sisyphus]] seduced [[Anticlea]], the [[mother]] of [[Ulysses]], [[before]] her [[marriage]] [[with]] [[Laertes]]), id. M. 13, 32; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 6, 529.—*<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sĭsyphēïus, a, um, adj., of [[Sisyphus]]: vincla, i. e. the [[marriage]] [[with]] [[Sisyphus]] (of his [[wife]] [[Merope]]), Avien. Arat. 597.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sīsyphĭdes, ae, m., [[offspring]] of [[Sisyphus]]: [[Ulysses]] (v. [[supra]], 1.), Ov. A. A. 3, 313.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[dwarf]] of M. Antony, so named by him [[because]] of his [[shrewdness]]. Hor. S. 1, 3, 47 Schol.

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