called Segeftica, Pliny. The town now extinct. EGESTERORUM CIVITAS. See SEGUSTERO. SEGESTICA. See SEGEDA and SE GESTE. SEGGUSIA CIVITAS. See SEGUSIO. SEGIDA, Pliny; a town of Baetica called alfo Julia Reftituta, id. By fome thought to be Caceres in Estremadura, in Spain; by others, Zafra, a town in the fame province. SEGISAMA, Strabo, Ptolemy; a town of the Vaccaei in the Hither Spain, to the east of Lacobriga, Itinerary; a colony, furnamed Julia, Coin. The people Segifima-Julienfes, Pliny. SEGISAMO, onis, Itinerary; thirty miles to the east of Lacobriga, a town of the Murbogii in the Hither Spain; Segifamonenfes, the people, Pliny. SEGNI, Caefar; a people of Gallia Belgica, fituate between the Eburones to the north, and the Treviri to the fouth. Now the duchy of Limburg, Cluverius. SEGOBIA, Pliny; Segovia, Itinerary; the Gegubia of Ptolemy; a town of the Hither Spain, fituate on the confines of the Arevacae; famous for its aqueduct, the remains, as is thought, of a work as early as the days of Trajan, and with which no ancient monument in Spain can be compared. The town is still called Segovia, fituate in Old Caftile, near the confines of New Caftile. W. Long. 4° 35', Lat. 41°. SEGOBRIGA, Pliny; the capital of Celtiberia, in the Hither Spain; at no great distance on the one hand from Numantia; on the other, from Bilbilis, Strabo, Ptolemy. The Spaniards at this day are not agreed about its fituation; and whether coins and infcriptions may be referred to it, is equally uncertain, if not altogether groundless, according to Vaillant; for being among the ftipendiarii or tributary towns, from the hatred the Romans bore to their obftinate refiftance, though famous and confiderable in its nation, it never was aliowed the right of coinage. Segobrigenfes, the people, Pliny. SEGODUNUM, Ptolemy; a town of Germany, on the river Segus: now Sigen, or Siegen, Cluverius; a town of Naffau Dillenburg, close on the river Sieg. E. Long. 7° 45', Lat. 50° 46'. SEGONTIA. See SAGUNTIA. SEGOSIANI. See SEGUSIANI. ancient; but from it Ptolemy's SEGUSIANI, Caefar; Segofiani, Strabo ; Secufiani, Pliny; a people of Gallia Lugdunenfis, or Celtica, fituate between the Aedui and Sequani to the north, the Arverni to the weft, the Velauni and Allobroges to the fouth, and the Allobroges to the east. Now comprising le Foret, le Lyonnois, le Beaujolais, and la Breffé, Baudrand. SEGUSIANORUM FORUM. See Fo Now Sifteron in Provence, on the Durance. E. Long. 5° 45', Lat. 44o 16'. SEIR. See HOR. SEIRATH, Judges iii. probably the Syrias of Jofephus; a place in Mount Ephraim, not far from Gilgal. Here, Jofephus fays, the pofterity of Seth engraved their difcoveries in aftronomy on two pillars; the one of stone to refift the water; the other of brick to resist the fire, knowing that the world should perish first by water, then by fire. It appears by the history, that there were engravings in those parts; the word, rendered quarries in our tranflation, denoting, and being actually rendered by the Septuagint, graven images, or engravings; which Dr. Wells fuppofes to be the work of the ancient inhabitants of Canaan, rather than of the posterity of Seth. SELA. See PETRA RECEM. SELAMBINA, Pliny, Ptolemy; a town of Baetica in the Farther Spain, on the Mediterranean, to the west of Abdera, Now Salobrenna in Granada, Florianus; a fmall town almoft reduced to an ifland, with a port on the Mediterranean, to the fouth of the city of Granada. SELAME, Jofephus; a town of the lower Galilee, in the Campus Mag nus. SELASIA, Paufanias, Polybius; Sellafa, Livy; a town of Laconica, fituate on the river Oenus, to the north-east of Sparta. In ruins in Paufanias's time. Famous for the defeat of Cleomenes king of the Lacedaemonians, who fled to Ptolemy king of Egypt, by the Acheans, Polybius, Livy. From this place Diana is furnamed Selafia, Hefychius. SELE, Ptolemy, Ammian; a town of Sufiana, to the fouth of Sufa, near the river Eulaeus. SELEMNUS, Paufanias; a fmall river of Achaia in Peloponnefus, running by the town Aegira. SELENE, Stephanus; the fame with Luna, which fee. SELEUCIA, furnamed Babylonia, Pliny; because fituate on its confines, at the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris, Ptolemy places it in Mefopotamia. It is called alfo Seleucia ad Tigrim, Polybius, Strabo Ifidorus, Characenus; washed on the fouth by the Euphrates, on the eaft by the Tigris, Theophylactus; generally agreed to have been built or enlarged by Seleucus Nicanor, mafter of the Eaft after Alexander; by means of which Babylon came to be deferted. It is faid to have been originally called Coche, Ammian, Eutropius; though others, as Arrian, diftinguish it, as a village, from Seleucia; and according to Zofimus, the ancient name of Seleucia was Zochafia. Now called Bagdad. E. Long. 44° 21', Lat. 33° 10. Another Seleucia of Elymais, fituate at mount Cafyrus: Strabo places it on the river Hedyphon; called Hedypnus, Pliny; which falls into the Eulaeus. A third, called Ferrea of Pifidia, Ptolemy, Notitia ; allo ad Taurum, Theodoretus: whether furnamed Ferrea from its ironmines is uncertain. This also was built by Seleucus Nicanor. A fourth Seleucia, Pliny; one of the names of Tralles. A fifth, Strabo; a citadel of Mefopotamia, built by Seleucus, Polybius; to fecure Zeugma, or the bridge on the Euphrates. A fixth, furnamed Pieria, Ptolemy, Pliny, Cicero; in a cognominal district of Syria, near Mons Pierius; enlarged and ftrengthened by Seleucus; its former name was Aquae flumina, Strabo; enjoyed its freedom by the favour of Pompey, id. Coins; fituate on the Mediterranean, therefore furnamed ad mare, Appian; near the mouth of the Orontes, to the north. It is faid, when building, there preceded the omen of thunder, which was there confecrated as a God, Strabo; and which also appears by coins, with winged thunder; and there also Jupiter, furnamed Cafius, from the neighboursng mountain, was worshipped, Coin. A feventh, furnamed Trachea, or Trachiotis, a principal town in the inland parts of Cilicia Afpera, Ptolemy; fituate on the river Calycadnus, Pliny; removed from the fea, where it was called Holmia; built by Seleucus Nicanor, Stephanus; who makes it a town of Ifaurica; this was ac cording An cording to the custom of his time, when the limits of Ifauria extended a great way into Cilicia. eighth Seleucia, beyond Jordan, on the east side of the Lacus Samachonitis, through which the Jordan runs, Jofephus. A ninth, furnamed ad Belum, Ptolemy, Pliny; Selexcobelus in one word, Stephanus ; fituate in the territory of Seleucis, in Syria, to the fouth of Antioch ; whence the furname: but what this Betus was is uncertain. Hardouin understands it of a mountain; Salmafius, of a river of this name. There is, it is true, a river Belus; but which runs far to the fouth, between Tyre and Ptolemais, which can have no relation to this Seleucia; if a mountain, it must run a great way to the north or north-east, and be divided by the Orontes; fo that little or nothing can be made of this diftinction of Ptolemy. SELEUCIS, Strabo, Ptolemy; a dif trict of Syria; the Antiochia, or Antiochene of Mela and Pliny; bounded on the weft by the Mediterranean; on the east by Chalcidene; on the north by Pieria, also reckoned the north part of Seleucis ; and by Caffiotis the fouth part, called alfo Tetrapolis, from four illuftrious cities; viz. Antiochia ad Daphnen, Seleucia in Pieria, Apamea, and Laodicea, Strabo. SELEUCOBELUS. See SELEUCIA AD 1 on an eminence; was fallen to decay in Zofimus's time, and overlooked in fome Notitiae. Selgeis, Coins, Polybius, or Selgenses, the people, bold and daring to extravagance, Polybius; and the only people of character among the Pifidians, Strabo, From this place Suidas and the Etymologift derive the term 'Athyn, with the alpha intenfivum. SELGOVAE, Ptolemy; a people of Britain, to the north of Solway frith. Now Nithfdale. SELIM, Joshua xv. a town in the tribe of Judah. SELINUS, untis, Ptolemy, Pliny: feminine; a maritime town of Cilicia Afpera; mafculine, a river, Strabo. Here the emperor Trajan died, whence the town was called Trajanopolis, Dio, Xiphilin. Another Selinus, a port of Marmarica, Ptolemy; to the north-west of Paraetonium. A third, a town of Sicily, Pliny, Stephanus; taking name from the river Selinus, running by it on the weft fide; fo denominated from the parfley growing on it, Vibius Sequefter. The town food on the fouth fide of Sicily, to the east of the promontory Lilybaeum, beyond the river Mazarus, Diodorus; a colony of Syracufians, Thucidides; of the Megarenfes of Sicily, Strabo. Its remains, called Terra degli Pulci, Cluverius; at this day, are a proof of its extent; called Palmofa, Virgil, from its palmtrees, Cicero: Selinuntii, Thucydides, Diodorus; Selinufi, Stephanus; and Selinontii, Coin; the people. SELINUNTIAE THERMAE. SeeTHER MAE. SELINUSIUS LACUS, Strabo; a lake at the mouth of the Cayfter, SELLAE. See SELLI. SSLLAS. See DELAS. SELLASIA. See SELASIA. SELLEIS, centos, Homer, Strabo; a fmall river of Elis, rifing in mount Pholoe in Arcadia, and running into the Ionian fea batween the promontory Cheloniates and the town Cyllene. Another Selleis, Homer; a river of Troas. SELLETAE, Livy; a people of Thrace, fituate at mount Haemus. Selletica, Ptolemy i Ptolemy; the district occupied by the Selletae. SELLI, a people in Chaonia of Epirus; the Dodonaei, Stephanus; extending from the neighbourhood of Dodona to the river Achelous, Strabo ; called Sellae, Lucan. SELLIUM, Antonine; a town of Lufitania, to the fouth-eaft of Arabriga, north of the Tagus, and fouth of Conimbrica. SELO. See SILO. SELYMBRIA, Scymnus, Scylax, Me la; Selybria, Herodotus, Strabo ; which laft explains the term by Z nós, the town of Selys, bria in the Thracian language fignifying a town. It flood on the Propontis, between Caenophrurium to the north-eaft, and Perinthus to the fouth-weft. Now Seliurea, a town in the fouth-east of Romania, on the fea of Marmora, to the fouthweft of Conftantinople about thirty one miles. SEMANA SILVA, Ptolemy; a foreft of Germany, fituate between the Silva Gabreta and the Mons Melibocus. Now thought to be the Haartz, Cluverius. SEMANTHINI MONTES, Ptolemy; mountains of the Sinae to the north, which feparate them from the Seres; the inhabitants of which are alfo called Semanthini. SEMBRITAE. See SEBRITAE. SEMECHONITIS LACUS. See SAMACHONITIS. ΣΗΜΕΙΟΝ, See LAPIS. SEMINA, Ptolemy; a town of Parthia, to the fouth of Hecatompylos. SEMIRAMIS. See THYATIRA. SEMIRUS, Pliny; a river of Magna Graecia in Italy. Now called Alli, Cluverius; in the Farther Calabria, washing the citadel Simari, and falling into the Sinus Scyllaceus, at twelve miles from Scyllacium. SEMITA ALTA. See VIA ALTA. SEMNONES, Ptolemy; a people of Gallia Cifpadana; by others called Senones, whom fee. SEMNONES, o fhort, Ptolemy; long, Strabo; a people of Germany, ituate between the rivers Albis and Viadrus; the most ancient and ilJuftrious branch of the Suevi, Tacitus; imagining themfelves, from their great body, or numbers, to be the head people, id. their limits SEMPRONII FORUM. See FORum. SENA JULIA, Pliny; a town of Etruria, to the fouth-eaft of Volaterrae, a colony of Auguftus, as appears from the denomination, Julia; before which time there is no mention made of it; but afterwards it became famous under the name of colony; Senienfis Colonia, Tacitus, Pliny. Now called Siena, a city of Tufcany in Italy. E. Long. 12° 30', Lat. 43° 20′. SENA, Ptolemy; a town of Margiana, ituate to the north-west of Alexandria. SENA, Sil. Italicus; Senna, Lucan; a river of Umbria. Now Cefano, Cluverius; a final river in the eaft of Urbino, rifing on the borders of Ancona, and running north-west of Sinigalia into the Gulf of Venice. SENA, Livy, Eutropius; Senogallia, Pliny; a town of the Picenum, on the river Mifus; its name fhews its original, Sena Gallica. Senenfis, the gentilitious name, and epithet, Cicero, Livy; from which laft it appears to have been a colony; Seño gallienfis ager, the territory, Frontinus. SENA. See SIAMBIS, an island. SENAAR, and SENEAR. See SHINAR, SENGIDON, onis. See SINGIDUNUM. SENIA, Pliny; a town of Liburnia, thirty-five miles to the north-west of Aenona, and fifty to the east of the mouth of the river Arfia, the boundary of Italy. Now called Segna by the Italians, and Zeng by the Germans, a town of Morlachia, E. Long. 16, Lat. 458 20'. SENIR. See HERMON. SENNA, a river. See SENA. SENOGALLIA. See SENA. SENONES, o fhort, Ptolemy, and the Roman poets; long, Strabo; a people of Gallia Celtica, fituate on the Sequana, to the fouth of the Parifii, near the confluence of the Icauna or Yonne; a people moft noted both for their invafion of Italy, and taking and burning of Rome; but this was done by a colony of them, long before tranf planted into Italy," and fettled on Tit the the Adriatic. Their capital Agendicum in Gaul, was in the lowerage called Senones; now Sens. In Italy the Senones extended themfelves as far as the river Aefis, but were afterwards driven beyond the Rubicon, which became the boundary of Gallia Cifalpina, Polybius, Strabo, SENTICA. See SINTICA. SENTINUM, Ptolemy; a town of Umbria, near Ad Enfem and Attidium'. Sentinates, the people, Polybius, Dio; Sentinas, atis, the epithet, Livy. Now called Sentina, in the duchy of Urbino. SENUS. See SCENA. SEPHELA, I Maccab. xii. 38. a cham paign country, near Eleutheropo lis, in Judea, Eufebius. SEPIA, Paufanias; a mountain of Arcadia, not far from Tricrena, and in the neighbourhood of Cyllene; where Aepytus, fon of Elatus, died of the bite of a ferpent, and was buried, it being impoffible to carry him farther; his tomb is mentioned by Homer. SEPIAS, ados, Herodotus, Ptolemy; a promontory of Magnefia, in Theffaly; in Iolcus, a tract or fea coaft, Scholiaft on Apollonius Rhodius; called alfo Sepias, Herodotus. SEPINUM. See SAEPINUM. SEPIUSSA, Pliny; a fmall island in the Sinus Ceramicus, on the coaft of Ionia. SEPPHORIS, Jofephus; a very large city, built in a naturally strong place, in the Lower Galilee, the fecurity of the whole country; called Zippori by the rabbins, because perched high and fecure like a bird, diftant ten miles from mount Ta bor, Eufebius; eighteen from Tiberias. It had one of the five fanedrim of the land of Ifrael, Jofephus; fituate oppofite to mount Afamon, which flood in the heart of Galilee, id, Called Sipuria, Benjamin Tudelenfis. In the lower age it came to be called Diocaefarea, Jerome, Hegelippus, Socrates. SEPTEM AQUAE, Cicero, Dionyfius Halicarnaflaeus; a place in the territory of Reate, of the Sabines. Cluverius takes them to be the lake of S. Sufana, Holftenius, to be all the lakes greater and fmaller in that neighbourhood, in order to make up the number. SEPTEM ARAE, Itinerary; a place in Lufitania, between Medobriga and Plagiaria. SEPTEM FRATRES, Strabo, Mela; feven mountains in Mauretania Tingitana, on the Straits of Gibraltar, next Abyla; fo called from their number and resemblance, be, tween Tingis and Abyla, Antonine. SEPTEM MARIA, Herodian; the feven channels or mouths of the Po, fo called by the natives. SEPTEMPEDA, Strabo, Ptolemy; a town of the Picenum, fituate between Nuceria to the welt, and Ancona to the eaft, Antonine. Now S. Severino, in the March of Ancona. Septempedani, the people, Infcriptions. SEPTEMTRIO, Pliny; the wind blowing from the north, the fame with AparElias. SEPTIMUNICIA, Antonine; an inland town of Byzacium, in Africa Propria, fituate between Nara and Tabalta. SEPTIZONIUM, Suetonius; a place in the tenth quarter or ward of Rome, built by the emperor Titus, fo called from its feven columns. Alfo another in the twelfth, built by Severus, Ammian. SEPYRA, Cicero; a village or citadel near mount Amanus in Cilicia. SEPYRUS, Ptolemy; a mountain of India extra Gangem, extending northwards to the Montes Emodi. SEQUANA, Caefar, Ptolemy; a river of Gallia Celtica. Now the Seine, rifing near Dijon in Burgundy, running north-west, through Champagn and the Ifle of France, and continuing its courfe north weft, it traverfes Normandy, and falls into the British Channel, between Havre de Grace and Honfleur. SEQUANI, Caefar; a people anciently forming a part of Gallia Celtica, but annexed to Belgica by Auguf. tus, feparated from the Helvetii by mount Jura, with the Rhine on the eaft, Strabo; bordering on the Aedui, and Seguftiani to the fouth, and Lingones to the weft, Tacitus. Now the Franche Comté. SERA, Ptolemy; the capital of the Seres. SER A |