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 SEBINUS LACUS. Vib. Sequest. p. 1 8), and is generally considered to be the same with the stream which now falls into the sea a little to tlie E. of Naples, and is commonly called the Fiunie 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, bat may liave been more considerable in an- cient times. The expressions of poets, however, are not to be taken literally, and none of the geogra- phers deem the Sebethus worthy of mention. Virgil, however, alludes to a nymph Sebethis, and an inscrip- tion 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.] SEBl'NUS 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 throixgh 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 (2f§pi5o(, Ptol. iv. 7. § 33), or SOBORIDAE (SogopiSai, Ptol. iv. 7. § 29), an Aethiopian race, situated between the Astaboras (Tacazze) and the Red Sea. They probably cor- respond 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 (Segouppoi and 'S.iovppoi, Ptol. ii. 6. § 27), a people in the NW. of Hispania Tarraco- nensis, on both banks of the Minius, probably a sub- division of the Callaici Bracarii. [T. H. D.] SECELA or SECELLA. [Ziklag.] SECERRAE, called by the Geogr. Kav. (iv. 42) and in a Cod. Paris, of the Itin. Ant. (p. 398) Se- TERRAE, a town of the Laeetani in Hispania Tarra- conensis, on the road from the Summum Pyrenaeum and Juncaria to Tarraco. Variously identified with S. Pere de Sercada, Arhucias, and San Seloni (properly Santa Colonia Sejerra). The last identi- fication seems the most probable. [T. H. D.] 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, corre- .spondiiig 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. IJier. p. 606.) The same bridge is called in an inscription which records its restoration by Valerian, in a. d. 2.59, Pons Seculae. (Murat. Inscr. p. 460. 5; Orell. Inscr. 1002.) The Secchia is a considerable stream, having the cha- racter, like most of its neighbours, of a mountain torrent. [E. H. B.] SECOANUS (27)>coo^'(5?, Steph. s. v.), a river of the Massaliots, according to one reading, but accord- SEGASAMUNCLUM. 947 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 (Srj/cip ^ 2iK<^p Ai^iiO, a 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. Ac- cordingly D'Anville supposes that Secor may be the port of the Sables d'Olonne; and other conjectures have been made. [G. L.] SECURISCA CZeKovpiffKa, Procop. de Aed. iv. 7. p. 292, ed. Bonn.), a town in Moesia Inferior, lying S. of the Danube, between Oescus and Novae. (/<m. Ant. p. 221; comp. Geogr. Eav. iv. 7; Theo- phyl. vii. 2.) Variously identified with Sohegurli, Sistov, and Tcherezelan. [T. H. L).] SEDELAUCUS. [Sidolocus.] SEDETA'NI. [Edetani.] SEDIBONIA'TES, are placed by Pliny in Aqui- tania (iv. c. 19). He says, " Aquitani, unde nomen provinciae, Sediboniates. Mox in oppidum contri- buti Convenae, Begerri." The Begerri are the Bi- gerriones 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. [Con- venae.] [G. E.] SEDU'NI, 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 name 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 Rlione, and crossed by a stream called Sionne. The town-hall is said to contain several Roman inscriptions. [Nantuates; Octo- DURUS.] [G. L.] SEDU'SII, a German tribe mentioned by Cae.sar (5. 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 ini)ios>ible to s.-iy to what part of Germany they beloniied. Some regard them as the same as the Edusones mentioned by Tacitus (Germ. 40), and others iden- tify them with the Phundusi whom Ptolemy (ii. 11. § 12) places in the Cimbrian Cher^onesus ; but both conjectures are mere fancies, based on nothing but a taint resemblance of names. [L. S.] SEGALLAUNI {2eyaAAauvoi,l'to. ii. 10. § 1 1). Ptolemy places tiiem west of the Allnliroges, and ho names as their town Valentia Ccilonia ( Valence), near the Rhone. Pliny (iii. 4) names them Scgoveliauni, and places them between the Vocontii and the Allobroges; but he makes Valentia a town of the Cavares. [Cavares.] [G. L.] SEGASAMUNCLUM CZfyiffanAyKovKov, ptol. ii. 6. § 53), a town of the Autrigones in Hispania Tarraconensis. (Itin Ant. p. 394.) Variously identified with S. Maria de Ribaredonda, Camenv, and Balluercanes. [T. H. D.] 3p 2