Sodom and Gomorrah, two ancient cities which, for their wickedness were, as the Bible relates, consumed with fire from heaven; they are supposed to have stood near the S. border of the Dead Sea, though they were not, as was at one time supposed, submerged in the waters of it.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Socrates * Sofala