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1 Sipylus
Sĭpylus, i, m., = Sipulos.I.A mountain on the frontiers of Lydia and Phrygia, on which Niobe was changed into stone, the modern Manisa Dagh, Prop. 2, 20 (3, 13), 8; Ov. M. 6, 149; Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11, 3; Sen. Herc. Oet. 184; id. Agam. 374.—Hence, Sĭpylē-us, a, um, adj., of Sipylus:II.genitrix Sipylea,
i. e. Niobe, Stat. S. 5, 1, 33;also called Sipyleïa cautes,
Aus. Epit. 27.— Sĭpylen-sis, e:mater deorum,
Ulp. Fragm. 22, 6.—A son of Niobe, Ov. M. 6, 231.
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