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 SEGODUNUM. SEGODU'NUM (:S,ey6Sovvov). Ptolemy (ii. 7. § 21) calls Segodunum the chief town of the Kuteni [Kuteni], a Gallic people west of the Ehone, in the Aquitania of Ptolemy. In some editions of Ptolemy the reading is Segodunnm or Etodunura. In the Table the name is Segodum, which is probably a corrupt form; and it has the mark of a chief town. It was afterwards called Civitas Rutenoram, whence the modern name Rodez, on the Aveyron, in the department of Aveyron, of which it is the chief town. [G. L.] SEGODU'NUM (S.^yo^ovvov), a town of south- ern Germany, p;ol):ibly in the country of the Her- munduri, is, according to some, the modern Wilrz- burg. (Ptol. ii. 11. §29; comp. Wilhelm, Ger^na- nien, p. 209.) [L. S.] SEGO'NTIA. 1. A town of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tarraconensis, 16 miles from Caesarau- gusta. {Itin. Ant. pp 437, 439.) Most probably iden- tical with the Seguntia of Livy (xssiv. 19). The modern Rueda, according to Lapie. 2. (267o;'Tia TlapafxiKa, Ptol. ii. 6. § 66), a town of the Barduli in HispaniaTarraconensis. [T. H. D.] SEGONTIACI, a people in the S. part of Bri- tannia, in Hampshire. (Camden, pp. 84, 146; Caes. B.G.v.2; Orelli, Inscr. 2013.) [T. H. D.J SEGO'NTIUM, a city in the NW. part of Bri- tannia Secunda, whence there was a road to Deva. {/tin. Ant. p. 482.) It is the modern Caernarvon, the little river by which i.s still called Sejont. (Camden, p. 798.) It Is called Seguntio by the Geogr. Rav. (v. 31). [T. H.D.] SEGORA, in Gallia, appears in the Table on a road from Portus Namnetum (Names) to Limunum, or Limonum (Poitiers). D'Anville supposes that Segora is Bressuire, which is on the road from Aintes to Poitiers. [G. L.] SEGOSA, in Gallia, is placed by the Antonine Itin. on a road from Aquae Tarbellicae (Dax) to Burdigala (Bordeaux). The first station from Aquae Tarbellicae is Mosconnum, or Mostomium, the site of which is unknown. The next is Segosa, which D'Anville fixes at a place named Escousse or Es- course. But he observes that the distance, 28 Gallic leagues, between Aquae and Segosa is less than the distance in the Itin. [G. L.J SEGOVELLAUNI. [Segallauni.] SEGO'VIA (Sijov^lu, Ptol. ii. 6. § 56). 1. A town of the Arevaci in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the road from Emerita to Caesaraugusta. (Itin. Ant. p. 435; Plin. iii. 3. s. 4; Flor. iii. 22.) It still exists under the ancient name. For coins see Florez (Med. ii. p. 577), Mionnet (i. p. 51, and Suppl. i. p. 104), and Sestini (p. 196). 2. A town of Hispania Baetica, on the river Si- licen>e. (Hirt. B. A. 57.) In the neighbourhood of Socili or the modern Perabad. [T. H. D.] SEGUSIA'NI (Seyoffiaj'oi or "Zeyovcnavoi), a Gallic people. When Caesar (b. c. 58) was leading against the Helvetii the troops which he had raised in North Italy, he crossed the Alps and reached the territory of the Allobroges. From the territory of the Allobroges he crossed the Rhone into the country of the Segusiani: " Hi sunt extra Provinciam trans Khodanum primi." (B. G.'. 10.) He therefore places them in the angle between the Rhone and the Saone, for he was following the Helvetii, who had not yet crossed thaSaCne. In another place (vii.64)hespeaks of the Aedui and Segu.siani as bordering on the Proviucia, and the Segusiani were dependents of the Aedui (vii. 75). Strabo (iv. p. 186) places the SEGUSIO. 951 Segusiani between the Rhodanus and the Dubis (Doubs), on which D'Anville remarks that he ought to have plated them between the Rhone and the Loire. But part of the Segusiani at least were west of the Rhone in Caesar's time, as he plainly tells us, and therefore some of them were between the Rhone and the Donhs, though this is a very inaccurate way of fixing their position, for the Dotibs ran through the territory of the Sequani. Lugdunum was in the country of the Segusiani. [LuGDUNUM.] Pliny gives to the Segusiani the name of Liberi (iv. 18). In Cicero's oration Pro P. Quintio (c. 25), a Gallic people named Sebaguinos, Sebaginnos, with several other variations, is mentioned. The reading " Sebnsianos " is a correction of Lambinus. Baiter (Orelli's Cicero, 2nd ed.) has written " Segusiavos " in this passage of Cicero on his own authority; but there is no name Segusiavi in Gallia. It is probable that the true reading is " Segusianos." Ptolemy (ii. 8. § 14) names Rodumna (Roanne) and Forum Segusianorum as the towns of the Segusiani, which shows that the Segusiani in his time extended to the Loire [RodumnaJ ; and the greater part of their territory was probably west of the Rhone and Saone. Mionnet, quoted by Ukert (Gallien, p. 320), has a medal which he supposes to belong to the Segusiani. [G. L.] SEGU'SIO C^eyovffwv : Eth. 'S.iyovaiavos, Se- gusinus : Siisa), a city of Gallia Transpadana, situ- ated at the foot of the Cottian Alps, in the valley of the Duria (Dora Riparia), at the distance of 35 miles from Augusta Taurinorum (Turin). It was the capital of the Gaulish king or chieftain Cottius, from whom the Alpes Cottiae derived their name, and who became, in the reign of Augustus, a tributary or dependent ally of the Roman Empire. Hence, when the other Alpine tribes were reduced to sub- jection by Augustus, Cottius retained the govern- ment of his territories, with the title of Praefectus, and was able to transmit them to his son, M. Julius Cottius, upon whom the emperor Claudius even con- ferred the title of king. It was not till after the death of the younger Cottius, in the reign of Nero, that this district was incorporated into the Roman Empire, and Segusio became a Roman nmnicipal town. (Strab. iv. pp. 179, 204; Plin. iii. 20. s. 24; Amm. Slarc. xv. 10.) It was probably from an early period the chief town in this part of the Alps and the capital of the surrounding district. It is situated just at the junction of the route leading from the Mont Gemvre down the valley of the i>o?-«with that which crosses the Mont Cents ; both these passages were among the natural passes of the Alps, and were doubtless in use from a very early period, though the latter seems to have been unaccountably neglected by the Romans. The road also that was in most frequent use in the latter ages of the Republic and the early days of the Empire to arrive at the pass of the Cottian Alps or Mont Genevre, was not that by Segusio up the valley of the Duria, but one which ascended the valley of Fenestrelles to Ocdum (Uxeau), and from thence crossed the Col de Sestriere.<s to Scingomagus (at or near Cesanne), at the foot of the actual pass of the Genevre. This was the route taken by Caesar in B. C. 58, and appears to have still been tiie one most usual in the days of Strabo (Caes. B. G. i. 10 ; Strab. iv. p. 179); but at a later juriod the road by Se- gusio seems to have come into general use, and is that given in the Itineraries. (Itin. Ant. pp. 341, 3p 4