proper noun
Sĭnis
Meaning
- a mythical robber on the Isthmus of Corinth
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.
In the Academy Smith's classical dictionaries
Biography & mythologySinisSinis. or SINNIS (Σίνις or Σιννις), a son of Polypemon, Pemon or Poseidon by Sylea, the daughter of Corinthus. He was surnamed according to some Pityo…GeographySinisSinis (Σίνις), a Roman colony in the district of Melitene in Armenia Minor. (Ptol. 5.7.5.) The place is not mentioned by any other writer, but it is p…