SU´RIUS a small tributary river of the Phasis in Colchis. (Plin. Nat. 6.4. s. 4.) According to the same authority, its water had a petrifying power (2.103. s. 106.) [T.H.D]
Surĭus, ii, m., a river of Colchis , Plin. 2, 103, 106, § 226. ...
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