Sabus

Sabus is a character in the mythology of the Sabines of Italy, the son of the god Sancus (called by some Jupiter Fidius). According to Cato, writing in his work Origines , the Sabines took their name from his. ^{[1] [2]}

However, Zenodotus of Troezen holds that the Sabines took their name from the already-existing name of their place of habitation. ^[1] And according to contemporary legend (unsubstantiated and presumably untrue), the Sabines were descendants of Spartan colonists led by a person named Sabus, and took their name from him. ^[3]

According to Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Sabus is related to the Egyptian Sobek and other entities from other cultures. ^[4]

References

1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1937). Roman Antiquities, Volume I, Books 1-2. Loeb Classical Library, Number 319. Earnest Cary (translator). Harvard University Press. p. 453 (Book II, paragraph 49). ISBN   978-0674993525 . Retrieved April 18, 2015.
2. Salmon, E. T. (1967). Samnium and the Samnites. Cambridge University Press. p. 30. ISBN   978-0521135726 . Retrieved April 18, 2015.
3. Cornell, T. J., ed. (2014). The Fragments of the Roman Historians. Oxford University Press. p. 98. ISBN   978-0199277056 . Retrieved April 19, 2015.
4. Nicholson, Henry Alleyne (1873). Contributions to a Fauna Canadensis: Being an account of the animals dredged in Lake Ontario in 1872. University of Michigan Library. p. 542. ISBN   978-1130228496 . Retrieved April 19, 2015.