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 SERMO. But though the ancient writers are silent about the mines, they are careful to relate that the frogs of Seiiphos differ from the rest of their fraternity by being dumb. (Plin. viii. 58. s. 83; Arist. Mir. Ausc. 70 ; Aelian, Hist. An. iii. 37 ; Suidas, s. v. Barpaxos eK 2ei)i(pov.) The modern town stands upon the site of the ancient city, on the eastern side of the island, and contains upwards of 2000 in- habitants. It is built upon a steep rock, about 800 feet above the sea. There are only a few remains of the ancient city. (Ross, Reisen mif den Griech. Iiiseln, vol. i. p. 134, seq. ; Fiedler, Eeise, ^'C. vol. ii. p. 106, seq.) SESTINUM. 9G9 COIN OF SERIPHOS. SERMO, a town of the Celtiberi in Hispania Tar- raconensis. (Ilin. Ant. p. 447.) Variously iden- tifie 1 with Muel and MezalocJia. [T. H. D.] SERMYLE {■Z^pixvKt], Herod, vii. 122; Thuc. V. 18; 2fp/xuAia, Scyl. p. 26; Hecataeus, oy;. -S<e/j/«. B. s. v.; Bockh, Inscr Graec. vol. i. p. 304 : £tk.
 * Z(piJ.vKioi), a town of Chalcidice, between Galepsus

and Mecyberna, which gave its name to the Toronaic gulf, wl'iich was also caUed Sermylicus Sinus (K-oA.7ros 'S.ipixvAtKSs, Scyl. I. c). The modern Ormylia. between Molyvo and Derna, is identified from its name, which differs little from the ancient firm, with the site of Sermyle. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 155.) [E. B. J.J SKRIIY'LICUS SINUS. [Sermyle.] SEKOTA, a town on the frontier between Upper and Lower I'annonia, on the right bank of the river Dravus. {It. Ant. p. 130; It. Hieros. p. 562 ; Geog. Rav. iv. 19, where it is called Sirore, while the Table cull.-s it. Sirota.) It is possible that this town may have belonged to the tribe of the Serretes men- tioned by Pliny (iii. 28) as inhabiting a part of Pannonia. The town of Serota is commonly iden- tified with the modern Verocze or Verovits. [L. S.J SERPA, a place in Hispania Baetica, on the Anas, and in the territory of the Turdetani. {Itin. Ant. p. 426.) It still bears its ancient name. See Rf.sendi Ant. Liisit. p. 194. [T. H.D.] SEKHAEPOLIS (^eppaiiroXis Kco/trj, Ptol. v. 6. § 4), a village on the coast of Cilicia, lying between Mallus and Aegae {Ayaz). SEItRAPlLLI, a tribe mentioned by Pliny (iii. 28), as dwelling on the river Dravus in Pannonia. The resemblance of name has induced some geo- graphers to assume that they dwelt about the modern town of Pilisch ; but this is a mere con- jecture. [L. S.J SERRETES. [Serota.] SERRHAE. [SiRis.J SERRHEUM or SERRHIUM (^teppiou, Bern. p. 85, R.; ^(ppfiov, Herod, vii. 59; Steph. B. s. v.), a promontory and town on the southern coast of Thrace, now Cape Mahri. It lay to the west of Waroneia, and opposite to the island of Samo- thraee. It is repeatedly mentioned by Demosthenes (pp. 8.5, 114, 133, R.), as having been taken by Philip, contrary to his engagements with the Athe- nians; and Livy (xxxi. 16) states that it was one of the TLraciau towns captured by Philip V. in the year b. c. 200. (Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; Mela, ii. 2.) According to Stepbanus Byz. {i. c.) a town on the island of Samothrace bore the .•-ame name. [J. R.] SEREI, a people of the Asiatic Sarmatia, on the Euxine, (Plin. vi. 5. s. 5 ) Mela (i. 19) places them between the Meianchlaeni and Siraces. [T. H. D.J SERRIUM. [Serrheum.J SERVIODU'RUM, a town in the north-east of Vindelicia on the Danube, on the road from Reginum to Boiodurum, near Augustana Castra. {Tab. Pent. ; Not. Imp.) It must have occupied the site nf the modern Strauhing, or some place in the neighbour- hood, such as Azelhurg, where ancient remains still exist. [L. S.J SPyRVI'TIUM, a town in the southern part of Upper Pannonia, on the river Dravus, on the road from Siscia to Sirmium. {It. Ant. p. 2C8; Geng. Rav. iv. 19, where it is called Serbetium ; Tub. Pent.) Its site has been identified with several modern places; but the most probable conjecture is that it occupied the place of the modern Sieverovczi, the point at which the roads leading from Sirmium and Siscia to Salona met. [L S.J SESAMUS (27)(rajU(Js), a small river on the coast of Paphlagonia, flowing into the Euxine near the town of Amastris, whence in later times the river itself was called Amastris. (Anonym. Peripl. P. E. p. 5; Marcian. p. 71; Amastris.) [L.S.J SESARETHUS. [Taulantii.J SESATAE. [Serioa.J SESECRI'ENAE {'2,Ti)CTeKpiivai vricroi, Arrian, Peripl. M. Erythr. p. 30), a group of islands oppo- site to the S. coast of India intra Gangem, and p'-o- bably in the Sinus Cok-hicus — wheie Ptolemy (vii. 1. § 10) places a town with the somewhat similar name of 'ZmaiKOvpai. It must have been in the neighbourhood of Taprobane, .since the Peri pi us mentions the AlyL5i(j>v vrjaos as close to the Sese- crienae, whilst Ptolemy (vii. 4. § 11) places the same island amongst a number of others lying before Taprobane, many of which must undoubtedly have belonged to the Sesecrienae. [T. H. I).] SESSITES {Sesia), a river of Gallia Transpadana, and one of the most impi rtant of the northern tributaries of the Padus. It flows beneath the walls of Vercellae {VercelU), and joins the Padus about 16 miles below that city. Its na!r;e is noticed only by Pliny (iii. 16. s. 20) and the Geographer of Ravenna (iv. 36), who writes the naine Sisidus. [E. H. B.J SESTIA'NAE ARAE (calleil by Ptolemy Stjo-ti'ou Bw/xol &Kpov, ii. 5. § 3). the W. promontory of the N. coast of Gallaecia in Hispania Tarraconen^is. It had three altars dedicated to Angnstu-., whence its name. (Plin, iv. 20. s. 34: Mela. iii. 1.) It is the present Cabo Villano (Florez, Esp. Sayr. xx. p. 44; Sestini, Med. hp. p. 103.) [T. H D.| SESTIA'RIA PROM. (2r)trTiapia &.i<pa. Piol. iv. 1. § 7), a headland on the N. coast of Mauritania Tingitana, between capes Russadir and Abyla. It is probably the same that is called Cannarum I'romon- toriuni in the Jlin. Ant. (p. 11), lying at a distance of 50 miles from Russadir, or the present Cuba Quilatcs. [T. H. D.J SESTI'NUM {Eth. Sestinas: SeUlno), a town in the interior of Umbria, mentioned only hy Pliny, who enumerates the Schtinates among the towns of that region (Plin. iii. 14. s. 19; Gruter, Inscr. j). 108. 7), but which still retains its ancient name. It is situ- ated among the Apennines, at the source of the river Foglia (Pisaurus). [E. H. B.J