SYRIAN MALLOW, a genus of plants belonging to the monodelphia clas, and in the natural method ranking under the 37th order, Colomniferae. See Botany Index.

HICETAS of Syracuse, an ancient philosopher and astronomer, who taught that the sun and stars were motionless, and that the earth moved round them. This is mentioned by Cicero, and probably gave the first hint of the true system to Copernicus. He flourished 344 B. C.