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                    "description": "(adj.adj.) : Sīsyphus (anciently Sīsŭpus and Sīsĭpus; the last in Inscr. R. N. 4472 Momms.; cf. Ritschl, Monum. Epigr. Tria, p. 26), i, m., = Σίσυφος.\n* Son of Aeolus, king of Corinth, famous for his cunning and robberies. He was killed by Theseus. His punishment in the infernal regions was to roll a stone up hill which constantly rolled back again, Hyg. Fab. 60; Serv. Verg. A. 6, 616; Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 5, 10; Ov. M. 4, 459; 4, 465; 13, 26; Prop. 4 (5), 11, 23; Hor. C. 2, 14, 20; id. Epod. 17, 68 al.: Ulixi Sisyphique prudentia,Cic. Tusc. 1, 41, 98; cf.  vafer, Hor. S. 2, 3, 21.—Hence\n* Sīsy-phĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sisyphus: labores,Prop. 2, 17 (3, 9), 7; 2, 20 (3, 13), 32: cervix,Sen. Herc. Oet. 942: portus,i. e. Corinth,Stat. Th. 2, 380: Isthmus,of Corinth,Sil. 14, 51: opes, i. e. of Creusa (as daughter of Creon, king of Corinth), Ov. H. 12, 204: Ulixes sanguine cretus Sisyphio (because Sisyphus seduced Anticlea, the mother of Ulysses, before her marriage with Laertes),id. M. 13, 32; cf. Serv. Verg. A. 6, 529.—*\n* A dwarf of M. Antony, so named by him because of his shrewdness. Hor. S. 1, 3, 47 Schol.\n* Sīsyphĭdes, ae, m., offspring of Sisyphus: Ulysses (v. supra, 1.),Ov. A. A. 3, 313."
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