Sinis

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Sĭnis, is, m., = Σίνις,

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.

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