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 950 SEGESTA. Two other streams are mentioned by Aelian ( V. II. ii. 33) in connection with Segesta, the Telmessus and the Porpax ; but vve are wiiully at a loss to determine them. Some vestiges of the ancient walls may still be traced ; but almost the only ruins which remain within the circuit of the ancient city are those of the theatre. These have been lately cleared out, and exhibit the praecinctio and sixteen rows of seats, great part in good preservation. The general form and arrangement are purely Greek ; and the building rests at the back on the steep rocky slope of the hill, out of which a considerable part of it has been ex- cavated. It is turned towards the N. and commands a tine view of the broad bay of Castell 'a Mare. (For a more detailed account of the antiquities of Segesta. .see Swinburne's Travels, vol. ii. pp. 231 — 235: Smyth's Sicily, pp. 67, 68; and especially Serra di Falco, Antichita delta Sicilia, vol. i. pt. ii.) Ancient writers mention the existence in the territory of Segesta <jf thermal springs or waters, which seem to have enjoyed considerable reputation (to ^epixa "•Sara Alyi(TTa7a, Strab. vi. p. 275 ; ^ep/xa. ovrpa ra. EyefTTaTa, Diod. iv. 23). These are apparently the sulphureous springs at a spot called Calametti, about a mile to the N. of the site of the ancient city. (Fazell. Sic. vii. 4.) They are mentioned in the Itinerary as " Aquae Segestanae sive Pincianae " (/</«. .Ant. p. 91); but the origin of the latter name is wholly unknown. The coins of Segesta have the figure of a dog on the reverse, which evidently alludes to the fable of the river-god Criniisus, the mythical parent of Aegestus, having assumed that form. {Serv.ad Aen. i. 550, V. 30; Eckhel, vol. i.2.34.) The older coins (as already observed) uniformly write the name SETESTA, as on the one annexed: those of later d;ite, which are of ,opper only, bear the legend EFESTAinN (Eckhel, I. c. p. 236). [E. H. B.] COIN OF SEGESTA. SEGESTA (Sestri), a town on the coast of Li- guria, mentioned by Pliny, in describing the coast of that country from Genua to the Macra. (Plin. iii. 5. s. 7.) He calls it Segesta Tigulliorum; so that it seems to have belonged to a tribe of the naine of the Tigullii, and a town named Tigullia is mentioned by him just before. Segesta is commonly identified with Sestri (called SestrH di Levante to distinguish it from another place of the name), a considerable town about 30 miles from Genoa, while Tigullia is probably i-epresented by Trcgoso, a village about 2 miles further inland, where there are considerable Pioman remains. Some of the MSS. of Pliny, in- deed, have " Tigullia intus, et Segesta Tigulliorum," which would seem to point clearly to this position of the two places. (Sillig, ad loc.) It is probable, also, that the Tegulata of the Itineraries (Itin. Ant. p. 293) is identical with the Tigullia of Pliny. [E. H. B.] SEGESTA, or SEGESTICA. [Siscia.] SEGIDA (%eyida, Strabo, iii. p. 162). 1. A SEGOBRIGII. town of the Arevaci in Hispania TaiTaconensis. According to Appi.an, who calls it 2e7r'(5r} (vi. 44), it belonged to the tribe of the Belli, and was 40 stadia in circumference. Stephanus B. (s. v.) calls it 2e7i5r), 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, I. c), and was pro- bably the same place called Segestica by Livy (x.xxiv. 17). 2. A town of Hispania Baetica, with the sur- name Restituta Julia. (Plin. iii. 1. s. 3.) [T. H. D.] SEGISA (:$('yi(Ta, Ptol. ii. 6. § 61), a town of the Bastitani in Hispania Tarraconensis, perhaps the modern Seliegin. [T. H. D.] SEGI'SAMA and SEGISAMA JU'LIA (2?- yiaafxa 'louAt'a, 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 tho.se tribes. The latter author expressly distinguishes it from Se- gisamo. [T. H, D.] SEGISAMO. [Segesama.] SEGISAMUNGLUM. [Segasamunclum.] SEGNI, a German tribe in Belgium, mentioned by Caesar (iJ. G. vi. 32) with the Condrusi, and placed between the Eburones and the Treviri. In B. G. ii. 4 Caesar speaks of the Condrusi, Eburones, Caeraesi, and Paemani, " qui uno nomine Germani appellantur; " but he does not name the Segni in that passage. There is still a place named Sinei or Sic/nei near Condroz, on the borders of Namur; and this may indicate the position of the Segni. [G. L.] SEGOBO'DIUM in Gallia, placed in the Table on a road from Andomatunum (^Langres) to Vesontio (^Besanqon). The Itin. gives the same road, liut omits Segobodium. D'Anville supposes Segobodium to be Sei'eiix, which is on the Suone, and in the di- rection between Besanqon and Lanqres. [G. L.] SEGOBRI'GA (S,iy6iptya, Ptol. ii. 6. § 58). I. The capital of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tarra- conensis. (Plin. iii. 3. s. 4.) It lay SW. of Caesar- angusta, and in the jurisdiction of Carthago Nova. (Plin. I. c.) The surrounding district was cele- br.ated 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, Esj). Sag7: vii. p. 61.) For coins see Sestini, i. p. 193. (Cf. Strab. iii. p. 162; Front. Si7-at. iii. 10. 6.) 2. A town of the Edetani in Hispania Tarra- conensis, 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.] COIN OF SEGOBRIGA. SEGOBRI'GII. [Massilia, p. 290.]