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* SEQHEBS. 758 SEGUIN. SEGHEKS, sfi'gers, or ZEGERS, Daniel (loOO-Ulol). A renowned Flomisli llower paint- er, burn ai Antwerp, wliorc he studied under Jan Brueyliel, entered the j,'uiid in Kill, embraced Catholicism and in lliH joined the Order of the Jesuits. Alter his return from a sojourn in Rome he rapidly acquired great reputation and his pic- tures were in such demand that he could scarcely fulfill his numerous commissions, and royalties granted privileges to the Jesuits in order to secure works from his brush. He seldom painted iloycr pieces exclusively, but usually in collaboration with historical painters, surrounding their sacred subjects, most generally the Aladonna. with a garland. In tliis way lie eoiiperated with Rubens, .•^cbut, Diepenbeeck,"and Quellinus. His flowers, sometimes higlily finished, then again treated more decoratively, show admirable drawing, great truth to nature, and tasteful arrangement. The color of his red roses has remained unclianged to this day, while those of every other flower painter have turned or faded away altogether. Specimens of his art may be seen in nearly all the public galleries of Europe. IIi3brotlu>r Okrari) (1.591-16.51), who usually signeil Ills iiaiue Zegers, was an historical painter of considerable merit, born at Antwerp, where he studied under Van Balen and Abraham Janssens. In IGIO he went to Italy, partook of the manner of Caravaggio in Rome, and thence proceeded to JIadrid, where he painted historical subjects and musical conversations for Philip III. After his return to Antwerp in 1620. allied in friend- sliip with Rubens and Van Dyck, he worked much under their influence. The "Adoration of the Magi" (1630), in Notre Dame at Bruges, is considered his masterpiece. SEGMENT (Lat. scgmentum, piece cut off, from sccarc, to cut; connected 'with OHG. saga, sega, Ger. Sage, AS. saga, Eng. saic). In geom- etry, a portion of a circle or of a sphere cut off by a secant line or plane. The former is called a circular segment and the latter a spherical seg- ment. If the secant is a diameter of the circle or a diametral plane of the sphere, the segments are equal and are semicircles or hemispheres respectively; otherwise they are unequal and the lesser one is called the minor and the greater the major segment. The area of a circular segment in a circle of radius r, whose chord subtends a central angle fl, is ^. 6 being measured in radians. For the volume of a spherical seg- ment, see Men.suration. SEGNERI, sin-ya'rs, Paolo (1624-94). An Italian Jesuit mission preacher. He was born at Nettuno, educated by the Jesuits in Rome, and joined the Society in 1637. He attained high rank as a preacher and appealed to the emotional southern temperament of his hearers by a highly dram.atic manner. But his many sermons which have been preserved have intellectual qualities and justify his selection by Pope Innocent XII. as a preacher at the Papal Court. There is an edition of his sermons and other works in Italian (Milan, 1845-47), and his famous Lenten 8er- mo7is. Panegyrics, Manna of the Soul, and Prac- tice of Interior Recollection with God have all been translated into English and published in London (1872-81). Consult his Life (London, 1851). SE'GO. A fortilied post of French West Africa. See Segu-Sikoro. SEGOVIA, su-go've-i, or Wank.s. A river forming in the lower half of its course the boun- dary between Honduras and Nicaragua (Map: Central America, E 3). It rises in the moun- tains near the Gulf of Fonseca and Hows north- east in a course of 400 miles, emptying into the Caribbean Sea at Cape Glracias S Dios. It is navigable for small river craft 170 miles from its delta, being then obstructed b3' rapids. The channels of the delta, however, are very shallow and tlie coast lagoon into which they discharge is silting up. SEGOVIA. The capital of the Province of Segovia, in Old Castile. Spain. It is situated on the north slope of the Sierra de Guadarrama, 40 miles northwest of Madrid (Map: Spain, C 2). The old part of the town is built on an oblong, rocky hill with nearly precipitous sides, 330 feet- high. It is surrounded by a wall with 80 tow- ers, running along the brink of the hill, and, though dating from the eleventh and the twelfth centuries, in a good state of preservation. The northwestern corner of the hill is a narrow, pre- cipitous promontory between the River Eresma and a small tributary, and on this is perched the famous Alcazar, an imposing castle built in the fourteenth century, where Isabella of Castile was crowned. It has two large towers crowned with bartizans, and formed an important part of the fortifications. Noteworthy are the numerous cburclies. Including the old deserted monaster- ies, there are no less than 73 ecclesiastical build- ings in this little town, and some of them, such as the cathedral, rank among the finest in Spain. The cathedral is a large Gothic basilica, begun in 1525, with two rows of chapels, flying but- tresses, and a square tower, 345 feet high, crowHed by a cupola. The San Estfban has a high Byzantine tower. The Roman aqueduct is the largest Roman monument extant in Spain. It crosses the valley between the mountains and the tow-n in 119 arches, having for some distance another tier of arches above them. Some of the arches are 94 feet high. There are paper and flour mills, iron and lead foundries, and dyeing establishments. Population, in 1900, 14.658. SEGUIDILLA, sa'ge-de'lya (Sp., little se- quence, diminutive of seguida, succession, from seguir, from Lat. sequi, to follow). A national Spanish dance in J time. Its characteristic is the rhythmic figure i&'ir which is played on castanets for four bars as an introduction. After every movement it is repeated for four bars. The music is usually played on a guitar with Castanet accompaniment, and during the dance the musicians also sing. The seguidilla is danced by several couples, who arrange themselves in two parallel lines. After nine bars of mvisic the dancers slowly change places, dance again, and return to their original positions. The third part of the seguidilla is suddenly interrupted on the ninth bar and the dancers remain motionless for a second in the exact postures held by them at the time. SEGTJIN, sa'giSN', Edou.ibd Onesimus (1812- 80). A noted French-American physician, born at Clamecy, Nifevre, France, and educated in Paris at the colleges of Auxerre and Saint