# Sabus

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Character in Sabine mythology

**Sabus** is a character in the mythology of the [Sabines](/source/Sabines) of [Italy](/source/Italy), the son of the god [Sancus](/source/Sancus) (called by some [Jupiter](/source/Jupiter_(mythology)) Fidius). According to [Cato](/source/Cato_the_Elder), writing in his work *[Origines](/source/Origines)*, the Sabines took their name from his.[1][2]

However, Zenodotus of Troezen holds that the Sabines took their name from the already-existing name of their place of habitation.[1] And according to contemporary legend (unsubstantiated and presumably untrue), the Sabines were descendants of [Spartan](/source/Sparta) colonists led by a person named Sabus, and took their name from him.[3]

According to Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Sabus is related to the Egyptian [Sobek](/source/Sobek) and other entities from other cultures.[4]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Cary_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Cary_1-1) Dionysius of Halicarnassus (1937). [*Roman Antiquities, Volume I, Books 1-2*](https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/2B*.html). Loeb Classical Library, Number 319. Earnest Cary (translator). Harvard University Press. p. 453 (Book II, paragraph 49). [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0674993525](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0674993525). Retrieved April 18, 2015. {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#invalid_isbn_date))

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Salmon, E. T. (1967). [*Samnium and the Samnites*](https://books.google.com/books?id=-jA9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA30). Cambridge University Press. p. 30. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0521135726](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0521135726). Retrieved April 18, 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Cornell, T. J., ed. (2014). [*The Fragments of the Roman Historians*](https://books.google.com/books?id=U38fAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA2-PA98). Oxford University Press. p. 98. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0199277056](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0199277056). Retrieved April 19, 2015.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Nicholson, Henry Alleyne (1873). [*Contributions to a Fauna Canadensis: Being an account of the animals dredged in Lake Ontario in 1872*](https://books.google.com/books?id=041MAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA542). University of Michigan Library. p. 542. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1130228496](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1130228496). Retrieved April 19, 2015. {{[cite book](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Cite_book)}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility ([help](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:CS1_errors#invalid_isbn_date))

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