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fiiall then be admitted into paradife. The latter held, that 

 if God do cait the believers guilty of grievous fins into hell, 

 yet they will be delivered thence after they fllall have been 

 iufficiently punifhed ; but that it is neither poffible nor con- 

 fiftent with jultice, that they (liould remain there for ever. 

 Sale's Koran— Prel. Difc. 



SEFIDROU, in Geography, a town of Perfia, in the 

 province of Farliflan ; 114 miles S.W. of Schiras. 



SEFROI, a town of Africa ; 20 miles S.E. of Fez. 



SEFURA, a town of Africa, in Foota. N. lat. 10^ 

 30'. W. long. 10^ 25'. 



SEG, in Rural Economy, the name of a caftrated bull. 



SEGAGHEE, in Geography, a town of the Bn-man 

 empire, on the Irawaddy ; 6 miles from Deneebow. 



SEGALLA, a gold mine of Africa, in the kingdom 

 of Bambouk. 



SEGAR, Sir William, in Biography, garter king at 

 arms, was author of '* Honour Civil and Military," folio, 

 1602. He was imprifoncd for granting the royal arms of 

 Arragon, with a canton of Brabant, to George Brandon, 

 the common hangman, but it being very evident that he had 

 been impofed upon he was releafed. He died in 1633. 

 Edmonfon's Baronage is laid to have been principally taken 

 from Segar's MSvS. 



Skgar, in Geography. See Sad.sKAR. 



SEGARDEE, a town of Hindooftan, in Golconda ; 

 30 miles W.N.W. of Hydrabad. 



SEGARGIUM, a town of Thibet ; 52 miles S.W. of 

 Zueiiga. 



8EGEB0RG, a town of the duchy of Holftein, the 

 name of which is derived from a cattle built there by the 

 emperor Lotharius in the year 1137, of which few vefligcs 

 now remain ; 18 miles N.W. of Lubeck. N. lat. 53° 58'. 

 E. long. 10° 19'. 



SEGED, a town of Nubia ; 30 miles S. of Sennaar. 



SEGEDA, \a ^iKient Geography, a very celebrated town 

 of Spain, in Boetica, in the interior of the country, between 

 the coaft of the ocean and the river Tader, according to 

 Pliny. — i\.lfo, a large and powerful town of Spain, in Cel- 

 tiberia, belonging to the people called Befii, according to 

 Appian. 



SEGEDIN, in Geography. See Zegf.dis. 



SEGEDUNUM, in Ancient Geography, a town on the 

 confines ot Dacia, on the river Tibifcus, which belonged 

 to the Jazyges. 



Secedunu.m, one of tiic eighteen ftations on the wall of 

 Severus, in Englifli " Couiins'-Jioufe," being the firit rtation 

 reckoning from eaft to weft, three miles five furlongs and 

 one and a jialf chain from the next ftation to the well of it. 

 See Statiov. 



SEGEHERAD, in Geography, a town of Norway, in 

 the province of Chriftiania ; 24 miles W. of Chriftiania. 



SEGELOCUM, in Ancient Geography, a town of tiie 

 ide ol Albion, in the 5th Iter of Antonine, between Lin- 

 dum and Danum. All our antiquaries agree in placing 

 Segelocum, which is called Agelocum in Sth Iter, at Little- 

 horough, between Lincoln and Doncatler, where Roman 

 coin;;, altars, and other ancient remains have been found. 



SEGELSBURG. in Cmgraphy, a town of the duchy 

 of Bremen ; 5 miles E. of Bremen. 



SEGERA, a town of Arabia, in the province of Hedf- 

 jas ; 5 miles S. of Medina. 



SEGERS, or Skcjiikks, Geuaiid, in Biography. This 

 eminent painter was born at Antwerp in 1589. He was 

 firfl. a pupil of Henry van Balcn, but afterwards entered the 

 fchool of Abraham JanfTens, and had made confidcrablc 

 progrefs in tlie art when he went to Italy. On his arrival 



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at Rome, he attached himfelf as a difciple to Bartolommeo 

 Manfredi ; and from him adopted a tafte for the vigorous 

 flyle of Michael Angelo Caravaggio. To the ftreiiglh of 

 contrail, which he thus adopted, he added fomewhat of the 

 tone and colour he had brought with him from his natiTC 

 country ; producing the powerful effedt of candle-light, 

 though often falfely applied in fubjetts which appertain to 

 the milder illumination of the day. By fkilful produftions 

 of this nature, he acquired very confiderable fame, and 

 was at length invited by the cardinal Zapara, the Spanifli 

 ambaffador at Rome, to accompany him to Madrid. He 

 accepted the invitation, and was prefented by the cardinal 

 to the king, who received him in the moil gracious manner, 

 and engaged him in his fervice, with a confiderable penfion. 

 He employed himfelf at Madrid in painting feveral liillo- 

 rical fubjetls, and fome mufical converlation pieces, which 

 were greatly admired ; but after remaining there fome years, 

 the defire of revifiting his native country induced him to 

 requeft permiflion to retire. His renown had reached 

 Flanders, and his fellow-citizens were impatient to poHefs 

 fome of his produdlions ; yet, when he had arrived there, 

 and executed fome paintings in his ftrong manner, they, 

 whofe eyes had been accuftomcd to the pure brilliant hues, 

 and clear contrails of Rubens and Vandyke, were unable 

 to yield him that harvell of praife to which he had been 

 accuitomed, and he was obliged to change his manner, and 

 adopt a more tender and agreeable flyle. The facility with 

 which he effefted this change, proves his power over the 

 materials of the art, and his judgment in its principles; 

 and many of his latter pidlurcs bear evident teilimony in 

 fupport of his general ability. His moll efteemed produc- 

 tion is or was the principal altar-piece in the church of 

 the Carmelites at Antwerp, the fubjedl of which is the 

 Marriage of the Virgin. Vandyke painted his portrait 

 among the eminent artills of his country, which is engraved 

 by Pontius. He died in 1651, aged 62. 



Segers, Daxikl, was the younger brother of Gerard, 

 and born at Antwerp in IJQO- His taile leading him to 

 deli^n fruit and flowers, he was placed as a difciple with 

 J. Brughel. At the age of 16 he entered the fociety of 

 theJeluits, and abandoned painting during his noviciate, but 

 when that term expired, he obtained permiflion of his fupe- 

 rior to vifit Rome, where his brother was then flourifhing 

 with diftinClion ; and he alfo acquired confiderable celebrity, 

 by the fidelity and fkiU with which he imitated the beauty 

 and variety of thofe objects of creation, as flowers, plants, 

 and infedls, which he cliofe for his models. 



His produdtions were fought with avidity, and his talents 

 were not iinproduclive even to his convent, which received 

 valuable tributes in return for thole ingenious and entertain- 

 ing treafures of art. He appears, indeed, to have painted 

 more for the benefit of the wily fociety to wiiich he had 

 attaciieJ himfelf, tlian for his private advantage : and when 

 lie had produced his m(jft celebrated piilure, at the com- 

 mand of tile prince of Orange, it was prefented to tliat 

 monarch in tlio name of tlie fociety, which was nuinifitently 

 rccompcnled in return. He frequently painted garlands ot 

 flowers, as borders for piftnres, which were filled up with 

 hillorical fubjcAs by the firll painters. He died at Ant- 

 werp in 1660, aged 70. 



SEGESTA, or.^E{:KSTA, or Segejle, m yJncient Geogra- 

 phy, a town ill the interior of Sicily, W. of Panormn. It 

 had a harbour and gulf of the fame name. The harbour 

 was called " Segeilanorum emporium," according to 

 Ptolemy. 



Thucydides reprcfents it as a maritime town, and fpeaks 

 of the navigation at jEgclla. Thia ancient name i» f.nd to 



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