Asparus on the W., and bounded by the mountains SCYTHO'POLIS. [BETHSAN]. 2. A town in Phrygia Pacatiana, between Alydda and Eumenia, is noticed only by Hierocles, (p. 667) and in the Acts of the Council of Constantinople (iii. p. 674); but its site has been identified with that of the modern Segikler, where inscriptions and coins of the town have been found. The ancient name of the place is still preserved in that of the neighbouring stream, Sebasli Su. (Comp. Hamilton's Researches, i. p. 121, &c.; Arundell, Discoveries, i. p. 136, who erroneously takes the remains at Segikler for those of the ancient Eucarpia.) 3. [CABIRA, Vol. I. p. 462.] [L. S.] SEBASTE. [SAMARIA.] SEBASTEIA (Zebáσreia), a town in the south of Pontus, on the north bank of the Upper Halys. As it was near the frontier, Pliny (vi. 3) regards it as not belonging to Pontus, but to Colopene in Cappadocia. (Ptol. v. 6. § 10; Hierocl. p. 702; It. Ant. pp. 204, 205.) The town existed as a small place before the dominion of the Romans in those parts, but its ancient name is unknown. Pompey increased the town, and gave it the name of Megalopolis (Strab. xii. p. 560). The name Sebastia must have been given to it before the time of Pliny, he being the first to use it. During the imperial period it appears to have risen to considerable importance, so that in the later division of the Empire it was made the capital of Armenia Minor. The identity of Sebastia with the modern Siwas is established partly by the resemblance of the names, and partly by the agreement of the site of Siwas with the description of Gregory of Nyssa, who states that the town was situated in the valley of the Halys. A small stream, moreover, flowed through the town, and fell into a neighbouring lake, which communicated with the Halys (Orat.I.in XL. Mart. p. 501, Orat. II. p. 510; comp. Basil. M. Epist. viii.). In the time of the Byzantine empire Sebasteia is mentioned as a large and flourishing town of Cappadocia (Nicet. Ann. p. 76; Ducas, p. 31); while Stephanus B. (s. v.) and some ecclesiastical writers refer it to Armenia. (Sozom. Hist. Eccl. iv. 24; Theodoret. Hist. Eccl. ii. 24.) In the Itinerary its name appears in the form of Sevastia, and in Abulfeda it is actually written Siwas. emperor Justinian restored its decayed walls. (Procop. de Aed. iii. 4.) The town of Siwas is still large and populous, and in its vicinity some, though not very important, remains of antiquity are seen. (Fontanier, Voyages en Orient. i. p.179, foll.) [L.S.] The SEBASTOPOLIS (Zebaσtómoλis.) 1. A town in Pontus Cappadocicus (Ptol. v. 6. § 7), which, according to the Antonine Itinerary (p. 205), was situated on a route leading from Tavium to Sebastia, and was connected by a road with Caesareia (p. 214). Pliny (vi. 3) places it in the district of Colopene, and agrees with other authorities in describing it as a small town. (Hierocl. p. 703; Novell. 31; Gregor. Nyssen. in Macrin. p. 202.) The site of this place is still uncertain, some identifying the town with Cabira, which is impossible, unless we assume Sebastopolis to be the same town as Sebaste, and others believing that it occupied the site of the modern Turchal or Turkhal. 2. A town in Pontus, of unknown site (Ptol. v. 6. $9), though, from the place it occupies in the list of Ptolemy, it must have been situated in the south of Themiscyra. 3. About Sebastopolis on the east coast of the Euxine see DiosSCURIAS, and about that in Mysia, see MYRINA. [L. S.] SEBASTOPOLIS (Hierocl. p. 638), a place in the interior of Thrace, near Philippopolis. [J. R.] SEBATUM, a town situated either in the southwestern part of Noricum, or in the east of Rhaetia, on the road from Aemona to Veldidena (It. Ant. p. 280), seems to be the modern Sachbs. (Comp. Muchar, Norikum, i. p. 250.) [L. S.] SEBENDU'NUM (Ze6évdovvov, Ptol. ii. 6. § 71), a town of the Castellani in Hispania Tarraconensis. There is a coin of it in Sestini (p. 164). [T.H.D.] SEBENNYTUS (Ze6évvuтos, Ptol. iv. 5. § 50; Steph. B. s. v.; Zebevvutikǹ móλs, Strab. xvii. p. 802: Eth. Zebevvúrns), the chief town of the Sebennytic nome in the Egyptian Delta, situated on the Sebennytic arm of the Nile, nearly due E. of Sais, in lat. 31° N. The modern hamlet of Semenhoud, where some ruins have been discovered, occupies a portion of its site. Sebennytus was anciently a place of some importance, and standing on a peninsula, between a lake (λíμrn ZebevvUTIKŃ: Burlos) and the Nile, was favourably seated for trade and intercourse with Lower Aegypt and Memphis. The neglect of the canals, however, and the elevation of the alluvial soil have nearly obliterated its site. (Champollion, l'Egypte, vol. ii. p. 191, seq.) [W. B. D.] SEBE THUS (Fiume della Maddalena), a small river of Campania, flowing into the Bay of Naples, immediately to the E. of the city of Neapolis. It is alluded to by several ancient writers in connection with that city (Stat. Silv. i. 2. 263; Colum. x. 134; Vib. Sequest. p. 18), and is generally considered to, be the same with the stream which now falls into the sea a little to the E. of Naples, and is commonly called the Fiume della Maddalena. This rivulet, which rises in a fountain or basin called La Bolla, about 5 miles from Naples, is now a very trifling stream, but may have been more considerable in ancient times. The expressions of poets, however, are not to be taken literally, and none of the geographers deem the Sebethus worthy of mention. Virgil, however, alludes to a nymph Sebethis, and an inscription attests the local worship of the river-god, who had a chapel (aedicula) erected to him at Neapolis. (Gruter, Inscr. p. 94. 9.) [E. H. B.] SEBINUS LACUS (Lago d Iseo), a large lake in the N. of Italy, at the foot of the Alps, formed by the waters of the river Ollius (Oglio), which after flowing through the land of the Camuni (the Val Camonica), are arrested at their exit from the mountains and form the extensive lake in question. It is not less than 18 miles in length by 2 or 3 in breadth, so that it is inferior in magnitude only to the three great lakes of Northern Italy; but its name is mentioned only by Pliny (ii. 103. s. 106, iii. 19. s. 23), and seems to have been little known in antiquity, as indeed is the case with the Lago d Iseo at the present day. It is probable that it derived its name from a town called Sebum, on the site of the modern Iseo, at its SE. extremity, but no mention of this name is found in ancient writers. (Cluver, Ital. p. 412.) [E. H. B.] SEBRIDAE (Ze6pídas, Ptol. iv. 7. § 33), or SOBORIDAE (Zo6opída, Ptol. iv. 7. § 29), an Aethiopian race, situated between the Astaboras (Tacazze) and the Red Sea. They probably correspond with the modern Samhar, or the people of the "maritime tract." There is some likelihood that the Sembritae, Sebridae, and Soboridae are but various names, or corrupted forms of the name of one tribe of Aethiopians dwelling between the upper arms of the Nile and the Red Sea. [W. B. D.] SEBURRI (Ze6ouppoí and Zeouppoí, Ptol. ii. 6. § 27), a people in the NW. of Hispania Tarraconensis, on both banks of the Minius, probably a subdivision of the Callaici Bracarii. [T. H. D.] SECELA or SECELLA. [ZIKLAG.] SECERRAE, called by the Geogr. Rav. (iv. 42) and in a Cod. Paris. of the Itin. Ant. (p. 398) SETERRAE, a town of the Laeëtani in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from the Summum Pyrenaeum and Juncaria to Tarraco. Variously identified with S. Pere de Sercada, Arbucias, and San Seloni (properly Santa Colonia Sejerra). The last identification seems the most probable. [T. H. D.] The same SE'CIA (Secchia), a river of Gallia Cispadana, one of the southern tributaries of the Padus, which crosses the Via Aemilia a few miles W. of Modena. It is evidently the same stream which is called by Pliny the Gabellus; but the name of Secia, corresponding to its modern appellation of Secchia, is found in the Jerusalem Itinerary, which marks a station called Pons Secies, at a distance of 5 miles from Mutina. (Itin. Hier. p. 606.) bridge is called in an inscription which records its restoration by Valerian, in A. D. 259, Pons Seculae. (Murat. Inscr. p. 460. 5; Orell. Inscr. 1002.) The Secchia is a considerable stream, having the character, like most of its neighbours, of a mountain [E. H. B.] SECOANUS (Σnkoavós, Steph. 8. v.), a river of the Massaliots, according to one reading, but accord torrent. ing to another reading, a city of the Massaliots, "from which comes the ethnic name Sequani, as Artemidorus says in his first book." Nothing can be made of this fragment further than this; the name Sequanus belonged both to the basin of the Rhone and of the Seine. [G. L.] SECOR or SICOR (Σηκώρ ἢ Σικόρ λιμήν), 3 port which Ptolemy (ii. 7. § 2) places on the west coast of Gallia, between the Pectonium or Pictonium Promontorium and the mouth of the Ligeris (Loire). The name also occurs in Marcianus. The latitudes of Ptolemy cannot be trusted, and we have no other means of fixing the place except by a guess. Accordingly D'Anville supposes that Secor may be the port of the Sables d'Olonne; and other conjectures have been made. [G. L.] SECURISCA (Zeкоúρiσка, Procop. de Aed. iv. 7. p. 292, ed. Bonn.), a town in Moesia Inferior, lying S. of the Danube, between Oescus and Novae. (Itin. Ant. p. 221; comp. Geogr. Rav. iv. 7; Theophyl. vii. 2.) Variously identified with Sohegurli, Sistov, and Tcherezelan. [T. H. D.] SEDELAUCUS. [SIDOLOCUS.] SEDETA'NI. [EDETANI.] SEDIBONIA TES, are placed by Pliny in Aquitania (iv. c. 19). He says, “Aquitani, unde nomen provinciae, Sediboniates. Mox in oppidum contri buti Convenae, Begerri." The Begerri are the Bigerriones of Caesar. [BIGERRIONES.] We have no means of judging of the position of the Sediboniates except from what Pliny says, who seems to place them near the Bigerriones and Convenae. [CONVENAE.] [G. L.] SEDUNI, a people in the valley of the Upper Rhone, whom Caesar (B. G. iii. 1, 7) mentions: "Nantuates Sedunos Veragrosque." They are also mentioned in the trophy of the Alps (Plin. iii. 20) in the same order. They are east of the Veragri, and in the Valais. Their chief town had the same name as the people. The French call it Sion, and the Germans naine it Sitten, which is the ancient name, for it was called Sedunum in the middle ages. An inscription has been found at Sion: "Civitas Sedunorum Patrono." Sitten is on the right bank of the Rhone, and crossed by a stream called Sionne. The town-hall is said to contain several Roman inscriptions. [NANTUATES; OCTODURUS.] [G. L.] SEDU'SII, a German tribe mentioned by Caesar (B. G. i. 51) as serving under Ariovistus; but as no particulars are stated about them, and as they are not spoken of by any subsequent writer, it is impossible to say to what part of Germany they belonged. Some regard them as the same as the Edusones mentioned by Tacitus (Germ. 40), and others identify them with the Phundusi whom Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 12) places in the Cimbrian Chersonesus ; but both conjectures are mere fancies, based on nothing but a faint resemblance of names. [L. S.] SEGALLAUNI (Zeyaλλavvoi, Ptol. ii. 10. § 11). Ptolemy places them west of the Allobroges, and he names as their town Valentia Colonia (Valence), near the Rhone. Pliny (iii. 4) names them Segovellauni, and places them between the Vocontii and the Allobroges; but he makes Valentia a town of the Cavares. [CAVARES.] [G. L.] SEGASAMUNCLUM (Zeyiσaμbyкovλov, Рtol. ii. 6. § 53), a town of the Autrigones in Hispania Tarraconensis. (Itin Ant. p. 394.) Variously identified with S. Maria de Ribaredonda, Cameno, and Balluercanes. [T. H. D.] SE'GEDA AUGURI'NA, an important town of Hispania Baetica, between the Baetis and the coast. (Plin. iii. 1. s. 3.) Commonly supposed to be S. Iago della Higuera near Jaen. [T. H. D.] SEGELOCUM (Itin. Ant. p. 475, called also AGELOCUM, Ib. p. 478). a town in Britannia Romana, on the road from Lindum to Eboracum, according to Camden (p. 582) Littleborough in Nottinghamshire. [T. H. D.] SEGE'SAMA (Zeyeráua, Strab. iii. p. 162), or SEGESAMO and SEGISAMO (Itin. Ant. pp. 394, 449, 454; Orell. Inser. no. 4719), and SEGISAMONENSES of the inhabitants (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4), a town of the Murbogi or Turmodigi in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Tarraco to Asturica, now called Sasamo, to the W of Briviesca. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. vi. p. 419, xv. p. 59.) [T. H. D.] SEGESSERA, in Gallia, is placed in the Table between Corobilium (Corbeil) and Andomatunum (Langres), and the distance of Segessera from each place is marked xxi. The site of Segessera is not certain. Some fix it at a place named Suzannecourt. [COROBILIUM.] [G. L.] SEGESTA (Zéyeora: Eth. ZeyeσTavós, Segestanus: Ru. near Calatafimi), a city of Sicily in the NW. part of the island, about 6 miles distant from the sea, and 34 W. of Panormus. Its name is always written by the Attic and other contemporary Greek writers EGESTA (Eyeσra: Eth. 'Eyeσraîos, Thuc. &c.), and it has hence been frequently asserted that it was first changed to Segesta by the Romans, for the purpose of avoiding the ill omen of the name of Egesta in Latin. (Fest. s.v. Segesta, p. 340.) This story is, however, disproved by its coins, which prove that considerably before the time of Thucydides it was called by the inhabitants themselves Segesta, though this form seems to have been softened by the Greeks into Egesta. The origin and foundation of Segesta is extremely obscure. The tradition current among the Greeks and adopted by Thucydides (Thuc. vi. 2; Dionys. i. 52; Strab. xiii. p. 608), ascribed its foundation to a band of Trojan settlers, fugitives from the destruction of their city; and this tradition was readily welcomed by the Romans, who in consequence claimed a kindred origin with the Segestans. Thucydides seems to have considered the Elymi, a barbarian tribe in the neighbourhood of Eryx and Segesta, as descended from the Trojans in question; but another account represents the Elymi as a distinct people, already existing in this part of Sicily when the Trojans arrived there and founded the two cities. [ELYMI.] A different story seems also to have been current, according to which Segesta owed its origin to a band of Phocians, who had been among the followers of Philoctetes; and, as usual, later writers sought to reconcile the two accounts. (Strab. vi. p. 272; Thuc. I. c.) Another version of the Trojan story, which would seem to have been that adopted by the inhabitants themselves, ascribed the foundation of the city to Egestus or Aegestus (the Acestes of Virgil), who was said to be the offspring of a Trojan damsel named Segesta by the river god Crimisus. (Serv. ad Aen. i. 550, v. 30.) We are told also that the names of Simois and Scamander were given by the Trojan colonists to two small streams which flowed beneath the town (Strab. xiii. p. 608); and the latter name is mentioned by Diodorus as one still in use at a much later period. (Diod. xx. 71.) It is certain that we cannot receive the statement of the Trojan origin of Segesta as historical; but what ever be the origin of the tradition, there seems no doubt on the one hand that the city was occupied by a people distinct from the Sicanians, the native race of this part of Sicily, and on the other that it was not a Greek colony. Thucydides, in enumerating the allies of the Athenians at the time of the Pelopon nesian War, distinctly calls the Segestans barbarians; and the history of the Greek colonies in Sicily was evidently recorded with sufficient care and accuracy for us to rely upon his authority when he pronounces any people to be non-Hellenic. (Thuc. vii. 57.) At the same time they appear to have been, from a very early period, in close connection with the Greek cities of Sicily, and entering into. relations both of hostility and alliance with the Hellenic states, wholly different from the other barbarians in the island. The early influence of Greek civilisation is shown also by their coins, which are inscribed with Greek characters, and bear the unquestionable impress of Greek art. The first historical notice of the Segestans transmitted to us represents them as already engaged (as early as B. C. 580) in hostilities with the Selinuntines, which would appear to prove that both cities had already extended their territories so far as to come into contact with each other. By the timely assistance of a body of Cnidian and Rhodian emigrants under Pentathlus, the Segestans at this time obtained the advantage over their adversaries. (Diod. v. 9.) A more obscure statement of Diodorus relates that again in B. c. 454, the Segestans were engaged in hostilities with the Lilybaeans for the possession of the territory on the river Mazarus. (Id. xi. 86.) The name of the Lilybaeans is here certainly erroneous, as no town of that name existed till long afterwards [LILYBAEUM]; but we know not what people is really meant, though the presumption is that it is the Selinuntines, with whom the Segestans seem to have been engaged in almost perpetual disputes. It was doubtless with a view to strengthen themselves against these neighbours that the Segestans took advantage of the first Athenian expedition to Sicily under Laches (B. c. 426), and concluded a treaty of alliance with Athens. (Thuc. vi. 6.) This, however, seems to have led to no result, and shortly after, hostilities having again broken out, the Selinuntines called in the aid of the Syracusans, with whose assistance they obtained great advantages, and were able to press Segesta closely both by land and sea. In this extremity the Segestans, having in vain applied for assistance to Agrigentum, and even to Carthage, again had recourse to the Athenians, who were, without much difficulty, persuaded to espouse their cause, and send a fleet to Sicily, B. C. 416. (Thuc. vi. 6; Diod. xii. 82.) It is said that this result was in part attained by fraud, the Segestans having deceived the Athenian envoys by a fallacious display of wealth, and led them to conceive a greatly exaggerated notion of their resources. They, however, actually furnished 60 talents in ready money, and 30 more after the arrival of the Athenian armament. (Thuc. vi. 8, 46; Diod. xii. 83, xiii. 6.) But though the relief of Segesta was thus the original object of the great Athenian expedition to Sicily, that city bears little part in the subsequent operations of the war. Nicias, indeed, on arriving in the island, proposed to proceed at once to Selinus, and compel that people to submission by the display of their formidable armament. But this advice was overruled: the Athenians turned their sequence besieged by a Carthaginian force, and were at one time reduced to great straits, but were relieved by the arrival of Duilius, after his naval victory, B. C. 260. (Pol. i. 24.) Segesta seems to have been one of the first of the Sicilian cities to set the example of defection from Carthage; on which account, as well as of their pretended Trojan descent, the inhabitants were treated with great distinction by the Romans. They were exempted from all public burdens, and even as late as the time of Cicero continued to be " sine foedere immunes ac liberi." (Cic. Verr. iii. 6, iv. 33.) After the destruction of Carthage, Scipio Africanus restored to the Segestans a statue of Diana which had been carried off by the Cartha arms against Syracuse, and the contest between Segesta and Selinus was almost forgotten in the more important struggle between those two great powers. In the summer of B. c. 415 an Athenian fleet, proceeding along the coast, took the small town of Hyccara, on the coast, near Segesta, and made it over to the Segestans. (Thuc. vi. 62; Diod. xiii. 6.) The latter people are again mentioned on more than one occasion as sending auxiliary troops to assist their Athenian allies (Thuc. vii. 57; Diod. xiii. 7); but no other notice occurs of them. The final defeat of the Athenians left the Segestans again exposed to the attacks of their neighbours the Selinuntines; and feeling themselves unable to cope with them, they again had recourse to the Carthaginians, probably when they obtained possession of ginians, who determined to espouse their cause, and sent them, in the first instance, an auxiliary force of 5000 Africans and 800 Campanian mercenaries, which sufficed to ensure them the victory over their rivals, B. C. 410. (Diod. xiii. 43, 44.) But this was followed the next year by a vast armament under Hannibal, who landed at Lilybaeum, and, proceeding direct to Selinus, took and destroyed the city. (Ib. 54-58.) This was followed by the destruction of Himera; and the Carthaginian power now became firmly established in the western portion of Sicily. Segesta, surrounded on all sides by this formidable neighbour, naturally fell gradually into the position of a dependent ally of Carthage. It was one of the few cities that remained faithful to this alliance even in B. C. 397, when the great expedition of Dionysius to the W. of Sicily and the siege of Motya seemed altogether to shake the power of Carthage. Dionysius in consequence laid siege to Segesta, and pressed it with the utmost vigour, especially after the fall of Motya; but the city was able to defy his efforts, until the landing of Himilco with a formidable Carthaginian force changed the aspect of affairs, and compelled Dionysius to raise the siege. (Id. xiv. 48, 53-55.) From this time we hear little more of Segesta till the time of Agathocles, under whom it suffered a great calamity. The despot having landed in the W. of Sicily on his return from Africa (B. c. 307), and being received into the city as a friend and ally, suddenly turned upon the inhabitants on a pretence of disaffection, and put the whole of the citizens (said to amount to 10,000 in number) to the sword, plundered their wealth, and sold the women and children into slavery. He then changed the name of the city to Dicaeopolis, and assigned it as a residence to the fugitives and deserters that had gathered around him. (Diod. xx. 71.) It is probable that Segesta neveraltogether recovered this blow; but it soon resumed its original name, and again appears in history as an independent city. Thus it is mentioned in B. C. 276, as one of the cities which joined Pyrrhus during his expedition into the W. of Sicily. (Diod. xxii. 10. Exc. H. p. 498.) It, however, soon after fell again under the power of the Carthaginians; and it was probably on this occasion that the city was taken and plundered by them, as alluded to by Cicero (Verr. iv. 33); a circumstance of which we have no other account. It continued subject to, or at least dependent on that people, till the First Punic War. In the first year of that war (B. C. 264) it was attacked by the consul Appius Claudius, but without success (Diod. xxiii. 3. p. 501); but shortly after the inhabitants put the Carthaginian garrison to the sword, and declared for the alliance of Rome. (Ib. 5. p. 502; Zonar. viii. 9.) They were in con the city after the departure of Pyrrhus. (Cic. Verr. iv. 33.) During the Servile War also, in B. c. 102, the territory of Segesta is again mentioned as one of those where the insurrection broke out with the greatest fury. (Diod. xxxvi. 5, Exc. Phot.p. 534.) But with the exception of these incidental notices we hear little of it under the Roman government. It seems to have been still a considerable town in the time of Cicero, and had a port or emporium of its own on the bay about 6 miles distant (7ò Tŵv AiyeoTéwv čuπópiov, Strab. vi. pp. 266, 272; Zeyeσtavŵv umóрiov, Ptol. iii. 4. § 4). This emporium seems to have grown up in the days of Strabo to be a more important place than Segesta itself: but the continued existence of the ancient city is attested both by Pliny and Ptolemy; and we learn from the former that the inhabitants, though they no longer retained their position of nominal independence, enjoyed the privileges of the Latin citizenship. (Strab. l. c.; Plin. iii. 8. s. 14; Ptol. iii. 4. § 15.) It seems, however, to have been a decaying place, and no trace of it is subsequently found in history. The site is said to have been finally abandoned, in consequence of the ravages of the Saracens, in A. D. 900 (Amico, ad Fazell. Sic. vii. 4. not. 9), and is now wholly desolate; but the town of Castell 'a Mare, about 6 miles distant, occupies nearly, if not precisely, the same site as the ancient emporium or port of Segesta. The site of the ancient city is still marked by the ruins of a temple and theatre, the former of which is one of the most perfect and striking ruins in Sicily. It stands on a hill, about 3 miles NW. of Calatafimi, in a very barren and open situation. It is of the Doric order, with six columns in front and fourteen on each side (all, except one, quite perfect, and that only damaged), forming a parallelogram of 162 feet by 66. From the columns not being fluted, they have rather a heavy aspect; but if due allowance be made for this circumstance, the architecture is on the whole a light order of Doric; and it is probable, therefore, that the temple is not of very early date. From the absence of fluting, as well as other details of the architecture, there can be no doubt that it never was finished, the work probably being interrupted by some political catastrophe. This temple appears to have stood, as was often the case, outside the walls of the city, at a short distance to the W. of it. The latter occupied the summit of a hill of small extent, at the foot of which flows, in a deep valley or ravine, the torrent now called the Fiume Gaggera, a confluent of the Fiume di S. Bartolomeo, which flows about 5 miles E. of Segesta. The latter is probably the ancient Crimisus [CRIMISUS], celebrated for the great victory of Timoleon over the Carthaginians, while the Gaggera must probably be the stream called by Diodorus (xx 71) the Scamander Two other streams are mentioned by Aelian (V. H. | 66 town of the Arevaci in Hispania Tarraconensis. According to Appian, who calls it Zeynon (vi. 44), it belonged to the tribe of the Belli, and was 40 stadia in circumference. Stephanus B. (s. v.) calls it Zeyion, and makes it a town of the Celtiberians, of whom indeed the Arevaci and Belli were only subordinate tribes. Segida was the occasion of the first Celtiberian War (Appian, l. c.), and was probably the same place called Segestica by Livy (xxxiv. 17). 2. A town of Hispania Baetica, with the surname Restituta Julia. (Plin. iii. 1. s. 3.) [T. H. D.] SEGISA (éia, Ptol. ii. 6. § 61), a town of the Bastitani in Hispania Tarraconensis, perhaps the modern Sehegin. [T. H.D.] SEGI'SAMA and SEGISAMA JULIA (eyioaua 'Iovala, Ptol. ii. 6. § 50), a town of His pania Tarraconensis. We find the inhabitants men tioned by Pliny as Segisamajulienses (iii. 3. s. 4). Ptolemy ascribes the town to the Vaccaei, but Pliny to the Turmodigi, whence we may probably conclude that it lay on the borders of both those tribes. The latter author expressly distinguishes it from Segisamo. [T. H. D.] SEGISAMO. [SEGESAMA.] SEGISAMUNCLUM. [SEGASAMUNCLUM.] SEGNI, a German tribe in Belgium, mentioned by Caesar (B. G. vi. 32) with the Condrusi, and placed between the Eburones and the Treviri. In The coins of Segesta have the figure of a dog on B. G. ii. 4 Caesar speaks of the Condrusi, Eburones, the reverse, which evidently alludes to the fable of Caeraesi, and Paemani, "qui uno nomine Germani the river-god Crimisus, the mythical parent of appellantur;" but he does not name the Segni in Aegestus, having assumed that form. (Serv. ad Aen. that passage. There is still a place named Sinei or i. 550, v. 30; Eckhel, vol. i. 234.) The older coins Signei near Condroz, on the borders of Namur; and (as already observed) uniformly write the name this may indicate the position of the Segni. [G. L.] ZETEXTA, as on the one annexed: those of later date, which are of opper only, bear the legend ETEXTAION (Eckhel, l. c. p. 236). [E. H. B.] SEGESTA (Sestri), a town on the coast of Li- SEGESTA, or SEGESTICA. SEGOBO'DIUM in Gallia, placed in the Table on a road from Andomatunum (Langres) to Vesontio (Besançon). The Itin. gives the same road, but omits Segobodium. D'Anville supposes Segobodium to be Sereux, which is on the Saône, and in the direction between Besançon and Langres. [G. L.] SEGOBRIGA (Zeyóspiya, Ptol. ii. 6. § 58). 1. The capital of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tarraconensis. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4.) It lay SW. of Caesaraugusta, and in the jurisdiction of Carthago Nova. (Plin. l. c.) The surrounding district was celebrated for its talc or selenite. (Id. xxxvi. 22. s. 45.) It must have been in the neighbourhood of Priego, where, near Pennaescrite, considerable ruins are still to be found. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. vii. p. 61.) For coins see Sestini, i. p. 193. (Cf. Strab. iii. p. 162; Front. Strat. iii. 10. 6.) 2. A town of the Edetani in Hispania Tarraconensis, known only from inscriptions and coins, the modern Segorbe. (Florez, Esp. Sagr. v. p. 21, viii. p. 97, and Med. pp. 573, 650; Mionnet, i. p. 50, and Supp. i. p. 102.) [T. H. D.] |