SU'SA, a city of northern Italy, province of Turin, stands on the right bank of the Dora Riparia, at the foot of the Cottian Alps, 32 m. w. of Turin. It is an episcopal see, and has a cathedral consecrated in 1028, with a baptistery of one single block of green marble. Among its other notable buildings are the episcopal palace, the town-hall, and the Borgo de' Nobili. The surrounding country produces wines, fruits, mulberry-trees, i and wood. The road over Mont Cenis, opened in 1810, begins at Susa. Pop. 3,300.
Suss, called by the Romans Segu,sio, is a very ancient city; it was founded by the Celts, and was, in the reign of Augustus, the capital of the Celtic chief Cottius, from whom the Cottian Alps received their name, and during the empire was the starting point for crossing Mont Cenis. A triumphal arch, erected by Cottius in honor of Augus tus; still remait ; ' OF, The Judgment of Daniel, also Susannah and the Elders, are the different titleAt a well-known story, which forms one of three apocryphal additions to the book of Daniel; the other two being The Song of the Three Holy Children, and The History of 13d and the Dragon (q.v.). It relates how Susannah, the wife of Joiachim, and daughter of Hilkiah, celebrated alike for her beauty and her virtue, was falsely accused of adultery by certain "lovers," whose advances she had spurned; and how, being condemned to death on their evidence, she was saved by the wise Daniel, who tore the mask from her enemies, and caused them to experience the fate they had designed for her. The question—uot a very.important one certainly—has been
much debated, both in the early and later times of the church, whether or not the story of Susannah is true; and arguments (of various weight) have been adduced to show that the book is a fabrication, a fable, a legend, and a history. The most probable view, perhaps, is that which regards it as a tradition of something that did happen in the life of Daniel, but which has been molded into a moral fiction by the hand of a literary artist. The original is believed to have been Greek and not Hebrew. In most MSS. it precedes the first chapter of the book of Daniel, and so we find it in the old Latin and Arabic versions; but the LXX., the Vulgate, the Compluteusian Polyglot, and the Ilexaplar Syriac place it at the end of the present book, and reckon it as the 13th chapter.