SERIPHUS (anc. geog.), one of the Cyclades or islands in the Ægean sea, called Saxum Seriphium by Tacitus, as if all a rock; one of the usual places of baptism among the Romans. The people, Seriphii;
who, together with the Siphnii, joined Greece against Xerxes, were almost the only islanders who refused to give him earth and water in token of submission, (Herodotus). Seriphia Rana, a proverbial saying concerning a person who can neither sing nor say; frogs in this island being said to be dumb, (Pliny).