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 SETANTII. ii. p. 591 ; comp. Sestini, Geog. Num. p. 55.) It is commonly supposed to have occupied the site of the modern Sidas Kaleh. [L. S.] SETA'NTII (:S,iTduTioi. Ptol. ii. 3. § 2). a tribe probably belonging to the Brigantes on the W. coast of Britannia Romana, and possessing a harbour (^eravTiooy AiyuVji', Ptol. I. c), commonly thought to have been at the mouth of the river Ribble. Keichard, however, places it on the S. coast of the Sohvay Frith, while Camden (p. 793) would read, ■with one of the MSS. of Ptolemy, " Segontiorum Portus," and seeks it near Caernarvon. [T. H. D.] SETANTIORUM PORTUS. [Setantii.] SETEIA (SeTTj'i'a or SeyTj'ta iX^xvais, Ptol. ii. 3. § 2), an estuary on the W. coast of Britannia Ro- mana, opposite the isle of Mona, into which the Dee discliarges itself. [T. H. D.] SETELSIS (2eT€A.o-fs or SeAew/s, Ptol. ii. 6. § 72), a town of the Jaccetani in Hispania Tarra- conensis, now Solsona. See a coin in Sestini, p. 189. [T.H.D.] SETHERIES, a river of Asiatic Sarmatia, on the E. coast of the Pontus Euxinus, and in the territory of the Sindi. (Phn. vi. 5. s. 5.) [T. H. D.] SE'TIA (SijTia: Eth. Setinus: Sezze), an ancient city of Latium, situated on the S. slope of the Vol- scian mountains, between Norba and Privernum, looking over the Pontine Marshes. It is probable that it was originally a Latin city, as its name is found in the list given by Dionysius of the thirty cities of the Latin League. (Dionys. v. 61.) But it must have fallen into the hands of the Volscians, at the time their power was at its height. No mention of it is, however, found during the wars of the Romans with that people until aftiT the Gaulish invasion, when a Roman colony was established there in B.C. 392, and recruited with an additional body of colonists a few years afterwards. (Veil. Pat. i. 14; Liv. vi. 30.) At this time Setia must have been the most advanced point of the Roman dominion in this direction, and immediately adjoined the ter- ritory of the Privernates, who were still an inde- pendent and powerful people. [Privernum.] This exposed the new colonists to the incursions of that people, who, in B. c. 342, laid waste their territory, as well as that of Norba. (Liv. vii. 42, viii. 1.) The Privernates were, however, severely punished for this aggression, and from this time the Setini seem to have enjoyed tranquillity. But it is re- markable that a few years later L. Annius of Setia appears as one of the leaders of the Latins in their great war against Rome, b. c. 340. (Liv. viii. 3.) Setia was a Colonia Latina, and was one of those which, during the pressure of the Second Punic War (b. c. 209), declared its inability to furnish any further supplies either of men or money. (Liv. xxvii. 9.) It was, at a later period of the war, severely punished for this by the imposition of much heavier contributions. (Id. xxix. 15.) From its strong and somewhat secluded position, Setia was selected as the place where the Carthaginian hos- tages, given at the close of the war, were detained in custody, and in B.C. 198 became in consequence the scene of a very dangerous conspiracy among the slaves of that and the adjoining districts, which was suppressed by the energy of the praetor L. Cor- nelius Merula. (Id. xxsii. 26.) From this time we hear no more of Setia till the Civil Wars of Marias and Sulla, when it was taken by the latter after a regular siege, b. c. 82. (Appian, B. C. i. 87.) It appears therefore to have been at this SETUACOTUM. 971 period a strong fortress, an advantage which it owed to its position on a hill as well as to its forti- fications, the remains of which are still visible. Under the Empire Setia seems to have continued to be a flourishing municipal town, but was chiefly celebrated for its wine, which in the days of JIartial and Juvenal seems to have been esteemed one of the choicest and most valuable kinds: according to Pliny it was Augustus who first brought it into vogue. (Plin. xiv. 6. s. 8; Martial, x. 36. 6, xiii. 112; Juv. x. 27; Strab. v. pp. 234, 237; Sil. Ital. viii. 379.) We learn from the Liber Coloniarum that Setia received a colony under the Triumvirate; and it is probable that it subsequently bore the title of a Colonia, though it is not mentioned as such by Pliny. (Plin. iii. 5. s. 9; Lib. Colon, p. 237; Orell. Inscr. 2246; Zumpt, de Colon, p. 338.) The position of Setia on a lofty hill, looking down upon the Pontine Marshes and the Appian Way, is alluded to by several writers (Strab. v. p. 237; Martial, X. 74. 11, xiii. 112), among others in a fragment of Lucilius (^up. A. Cell. xvi. 9), in whose time it is probable that the highroad, of the ex- treme hilliness of which he complains, passed by Setia itself. It was, however, about 5 miles distant from the Appian Way, on the left hand. There can be no doubt that the modern town of Sezze occupies the same site with the ancient one, as ex- tensive remains of its walls are still visible. They are constructed of large polygonal or rudely squared blocks of limestone, in the same style as those of Norba and Cora. The substructions of several edifices (probably temples) of a similar style of construction, also remain, as well as so < e incon- siderable ruins of an amphitheatre. (Westphal, Rom. Kamp. p. 53; Dodwell's Pelusgic Remains, pp. 11.5— 120.) [E. H. B.] SE'TIA (Se'ria, Ptol. ii. 4. § 9). 1. A town of the Turduli in Hispania Baetica, between the Baetis and Mount Ilipula. 2. A town of the Vascones in Hispania Tarra- conensis. (Ptol. ii. 6. § 67.) [T. H. D.] SE'TIDA (2€Ti5a, Ptol. ii. 4. § 12), a town of the Turdetani in the W. of Hispania Baetica. [T. H. D.] SETIDA'VA (SsTi'Saua), a town in the north- east of ancient GeiTnany, on the north of the sources of the Vistula, so that it belonged either to the Omani or to the Burgundiones. (Ptol. ii. 1 1. § 28.) Its exact site is not known, though it is commonly assumed to have occupied the place of the modem Zydowo on the south of Gnesen. (Wilhelm, Ger- manien, p. 253.) [L. S.] SETISACUM (SeTiVaKoi/, Ptol. ii. 6. § 52), a town of the Murbogi in the N. of Hisjiani.i 'J arra- conensis. [T. H. D."] SETIUS MONS or PROM. [Blascon; Fecyi JUGUM.] SETOTRIALLACTA (SeroTpioAXa'/cTa, Ptol. ii. 6. § 56), a town of the Arcvaci in Hi.spania Tar- raconensis. [T. II. D.] SETO'VIA (SfToui'a, Appian, Ilhjr. 27), a town of Dalniatia, situated in a well-wooded valley, which was besieged by Octavius in the campaign of b. c. 34. It lias been identified with Siyri, situated in the rich valley of the Cellina, and bounded by mountains to the light and left. [E. B. J.] •- SETUACO'TUM ('2,erovd.ic(iiTov,ov 2eToyo'«aToj'), a town in the south of Germany between the upper part of the Danube and the Silva Gahreta, perhaps belonging to the territory of the Narisci (Ptol. ii. 1 . § 30); but its site is quite unknown. [L. S.]