| The harbour at Suda Bay was the largest in the Mediterranean Sea and an ideal base for naval operations. |
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| The poet's mathematically inclined brother was named Mamertinus by the Suda but a scholiast in a commentary on Euclid named him Mamercus. |
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| His works, according to the Suda, were collected in 26 books but each of these was probably a long, narrative poem. |
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| The Suda also informs us that Herodotus later returned home to lead the revolt that eventually overthrew the tyrant. |
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| Further, the Suda is the only source which we have for the role played by Herodotus as the heroic liberator of his birthplace. |
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| According to the Suda, he was buried in Macedonian Pella and in the agora in Thurium. |
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| As such, the Suda identifies Oceanus and Tethys as the parents of the two Kerkopes, whom Heracles also bested. |
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| These preservers of myth include Arnobius, Hesychius, the author of the Suda, John Tzetzes, and Eustathius. |
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| His influence on philosophical thinking lasted until the Middle Ages, as is shown by citation in the Suda, the massive medieval lexicon. |
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| Levkas in the Ionian islands, and the bases of Spinalonga and Suda on Crete which still remained in Venetian hands, were abandoned. |
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| The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor. |
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| The volume then goes on to add other titles not testified within the Suda. |
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| According to the Suda, he also had an eromenos, Palaephatus of Abydus. |
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