Sunium

, a promontory of Attica, about 45 miles distant from the Piræus. There was there a small harbour, as also a town. Minerva had there a beautiful temple, whence she was called Sunias . There are still extant some ruins of this temple. Pliny , bk. 4 , ch. 7 .— Strabo , bk. 9 .— Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 1 .— Cicero , Letters to Atticus , bk. 7 , ltr. 3 ; bk. 13 , ltr. 10 .