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one of ita members. Selgas belongs among the minor ^Titers. His repute depends upon his lyrics and his short tales rather than upon his niore ambitious novels. The best of his verse, which is generallj' marked by a gentle melancholy, will be found in the two coUections, "La Primavera" and "El Estio", both put forth in ISoO. After his death there ap- peared the voliune of poems entitled "Flores y Espinas". Of his longer novels there maj^ be men- tioned the "Dos Rivales" and "Una Madre", both rather tedious compositions. In his short tales he is most successful when he indulges in the senti- mental; he is less attractive when he gives utterance to his pessimistic feeling. At times his sentimental- ism and pessimism become even morbid. A number of his journalistic articles have been brought together in several of the volumes of his collected works, as "Hojas sueltas", "Estudios sociales", etc. They illustrate his ultra-Conservativism in politics.

Obras completas, ed. Dubrull (15 vols., Madrid, 1887); G.\BCi.*., La Literatura espaflola en el siglo XIX, pt. I, ii.

J. D. M. Ford.

Selge, a titular see in Pamphylia Prima, suf- fragan of Side. Situated in a fertile plain on the south slope of the Taurus, it boasted that it was founded by the di\dner Calchas, but in reality was probably a Lacedaemonian colony. Although dif- ficult of access, it became the most populous and powerful of the cities of Pisidia. Its army of 2000 soldiers was in constant strife with the neighbouring cities. Greek grammarians connect its name with do-fXviJi, which means "Ucentious"; some think the first letter of the word a negative particle, but others find in it a meaning of reinforcement. When Alexander passed through Pisidia, Selge sought his friendship. In 208 b.c. it was besieged by Acha>us, ally of its rival city of Pednelissus, and forced to pay a heavy war tax. Its coins show it to have flourished under Trajan, but in the fifth century it was only a small city, still capable, however, of repulsing an attack of the Goths. After the new division of the empire it was included in Pamphylia; in the fifth century it was connected, at least ecclesiastically, with Side, metropolis of Pamphylia Prima. In the ninth century it had become an autocephalous arch- diocese. Subsequent "Notitia; episcopatuum" do not mention it. Le Quien ("Oriens Christ.", I, 1011) names four of its bishops: Uranion, who must have as.sisted at the Council of Nicaea in 325, but whose name does not occur in the lists of the Fathers ot that council; Xunechius, at the Council of Ephesus in 431; Marcianus at Constantinople in 869; Gregory at the Photian Council of Constantinople in 879. The ruins of Selge are located at the village of Siirk in the sandiak of Adalia and the vilayet of Koniah; they include temples, an aqueduct, a portico, a stadium, a theatre, a church, etc.

Smith, Did. Gr. and Rom. Geog., s. v.; Lanckor6n8ki, Les tiUet de la Pamphylie el de la Pisidie, II (Paria, 1893). 182-19.5.

S. P^tridJjs.

SelinuB, a titular see in Isauria, near the Gulf of AdaUa. Selinus, mentioned by Ptolemy, V, 8, 2, Pliny, V, 22, and other ancient geographies, waw a port on the east side of Cilicia at the mouth of a river of the same name. Its situation on a steep rock, whence its Greek name, rendered it almost impregnable. The only known fact of its history is that Trajan died there in 117. Then it took the name of Trajanopolis, but the old one prevailed, as is shown by coins and other documents. Later Selinufl was joined to Isauria. In 198 Longinus of Selinus, a rebel leader, was taken by Count Driscus and sent to Constantinople. Basil of Seleucia (Vita 8. Theclae, II, 17) said that the city, which was formerly of much importance, lost it from his time to the fifth century. Constantine Porphyrogenitufl,

in the tenth century, called it a small town. To-day it is the Uttle village of Selinti in the vilayet of Adana; there are ruins of a theatre, aqueduct, market-place, bath, etc. Selinus was suffragan of Seleucia Tracha^a. Le Quien (Oriens christianus, II, 1019) names four bishops: Neon, present at the council of Constan- tinople, 381; Alypius, at Ephesus, 431; .Elianus, at Chalcedon, 451; Gheon, signer of the letter of the bishops of the province to Emperor Leo, 458. The see is in the Greek "Notitia; Episcopatuum" of the Patriarchate of Antioch from the fifth to the tenth century (Vailhe in "Echos d'Orient", X, 95, 145). It was also perhaps an Armenian bishopric until the tenth century (Alishan, Sissouan, Venice, 1899, p. 60). Eubel (Hierarchia catholica medii a;vi, I, 468) names a Latin bishop in 1345.

Beaufort, Karamania, 186 seq.; Smith, Diet. Gr. and Rom. Geog., s. v.; Tomaschek, Zur histor. topogr. Don Kleinasien im Mittelalter, 57.

S. P^TRlDfes.

Selvaggrio, Giulio Lorenzo, canonist and archaeolo- gist, b. at Naples, 10 August, 1728; d. there, November, 1772. He entered the seminary of Naples in 1744, and was ordained priest in 1752. He subsequently devoted himself to the study of history, philosophy, and the Oriental languages. He became censor of books and synodal examiner for the Diocese of Naples, and wrote the notes for the Italian edition of the ecclesiastical history of the Lutheran historian, Mosheim. Appointed professor of canon law in 1764, he published "Institutionum canonicarum libri tres" (Padua, 1770) and con- ferences in civil law, interesting from the standpoint of contemporary Neapolitan law. Mamachi's work on Christian antiquities being unfinished, Selvaggio resolved to treat the same subject in a smaller work, but he died before finishing it. His friend, Canon Kalephati, continued the publication of the "An- tiquitatum ecclesiasticarum institutiones " (6 vols., Naples, 1772-6), prefacing them with a biography of the author: " Commentarius de vita et scriptis J. L. Selvagii".

HuRTER, Nomenclator, III (Innsbruck, 1895), 172-4.

R. Maere.

Selymbria, a titular see in Thracia Prima, suf- fragan of Heraclea. Selymbria, or Selybria, the city of Selys on the Propontis, was a colony of the Megarians founded before Byzantium. It was the native place of Prodicus, a disciple of Hippocrates; there Xenophon met Medosades, the envoy of Seuthes, whose army later encamped near by. In 410 B.C. Alcibiades, who commanded in the Pro- pontis for the Athenians, was not allowed to enter the town, but the inhabitants paid him a sum of money; somewhat later he captured it by treason and left a garri.son there. In 351 B.C., Selymbria was an ally of the Athenians and in 343 was perhajis attacked by Philip. In honour of Eudoxia, wife of the Emperor Arcadius, it was called Eudoxiopolis, still its official name in the seventh century, doubtless together with the older one which finally survived. In 805 it was pillaged by the liulgarian king, Kroum. Michael III constructed a fortress the ruins of which are still existing there. The town is often nicntioned by the Byzantin(! historians; in 1096 Ciodfrey of Bouillon ravaged the country. Cantacuzenus cele- brated the marriage of his daughter Theodora and the sultan Orkhan with great pomp at Selymbria. The Turks captured the town in 1453. It is now Silivri, chief town of a caza in the vilayet of Adriano- polis, containing 8000 inhabitants, Turks and Greeks, mostly farmers or fishermen.

In the tenth century it became an autocephalous archbishopric and under Marcus Comnenus a metrop- olis without suffragan sees. It would be easy, therefore, to add to the list of its bishops given by Le Quien