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Samius

Σάμιος

(Σάμιος), a surname of. Poseidon, derived from his temples in Samos and Samicon in Elis. (Strab. xiv. p.637; comp. viii. pp. 343, 347; Paus. 6.25.5.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.