Syēne

, now A uan , a town of Thebais, on the extremities of Egypt. Juvenal the poet was banished there on pretence of commanding a pretorian cohort stationed in the neighbourhood. It was famous for its quarries of marble. Strabo , bks. 1 & 2.— Mela , bk. 1 , ch. 9 .— Pliny , bk. 36 , ch. 8 .— Ovid , ex Ponto , bk. 1 , poem 5, li. 79 ; Metamorphoses , bk. 5 , li. 74 .— Lucan , bk. 2 , li. 587 ; bk. 8 , li. 851 ; bk. 10 , li. 234 .