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turning to Florence, he was employed in public affairs by 

 the republic, and by duke Cufmo, who in 1 541 feiit him 

 on an erabally to Ftrduiand, king of the Romans. He 

 was, in 1542, appointed conful of the univerfity of Flo- 

 rence, then in very high reputation. He wrote a hillory 

 of Florence from the year 1527 to 1 555, which in every 

 refpeft is confidered as one of the belt produdions of the 

 age. It was fecn bv no one during his hfe, and was not 

 printed till the year 1713, when it appeared, together with 

 a life of Niccolo Capponi, gonfalonier of Florence, Stgni's 

 uncle. This writer likewife tranflated into the Italian Ian- 

 guage feveral treatife.s of Arillotle, which were printed at 

 Florence in 1549 — 50. He died in 1559. 



Segni, in Geography, a town of the Campagna di Roma, 

 the fee of a bifhop, under the pope. Organs are faid to 

 have been invented in this town ; 25 miles S.E. of Rome. 



Segki, in ylndeiU Geography, a people of Gaul, who are 

 fuppofed to have occupied a territory, which is the fcite of 

 a fmall town, called " Sinei," or " Signei," on the frontier 

 of Namur, and to have founded it. 



SEGNITZ, in Geography, a town of the duchy of 

 Wurzburg, on the Maine ; 12 miles S.E. of Wurzbnrg. — 

 Alfo, a town of Germany, in the principality of Anfpach ; 

 4 miles S.W. of Maynbernheim. 



SEGNO, Ital., in Muflc, a fign or mark of reference, 

 for the repetition of any itrain, or portion of a ftrain. It is 

 ufually an S, the initial o{ Jignum or fegno, dotted on each 

 fidtf, thus '}' ; of more ufe in rondeaux than in any other 

 movements. The (harp >>;, natural q, and flat b, are acci- 

 dental Jigm , as is the diefis x , or double (harp. The paufe, 

 or corona (^, \i 3. fegno dijtlenlio, as well as a final terminating 

 fign. (See all thefe terms under their feveral heads.) 

 The '$' is likewife ufed in canons and catches written on 

 one line, to mark the places where the feveral parts 

 come in. 



SEGO, in Geography, a city of Africa, and capital of 

 the kingdom of Bambara, fituated on the Joliba or Niger. 

 Mr. Park, whofe death we have now reafon to lament, ar- 

 rived at this city in his firlt African expedition ; and to him 

 we are indebted for the following account of it. He fays, 

 that it confills, properly fpeaking, of four divifions or 

 quarters, two on each fide of the water, and each of them 

 furrounded by a mud wall ; fo that they exhibited the ap- 

 pearance of four diftincl towns. The two divifior.s on the 

 north fide of the river are called " Sego Korro" and " Sego 

 Boo ;" and thofe on the fouth bank are called " Sego Soo 

 Korro" and " Sego See Korro." The houfes are built of 

 clay, and have flat roofs ; but fome of them have two (lories, 

 and many are white-wafhed. Befides thefe buildings, 

 Moorilh mofques are feen in every quarter. Thefe (-bjeCts, 

 with the numerous- boats on the river, a crowded population, 

 and the cultivated (late of the furrounding country, formed 

 altogether a profpect of civilization and magni(icence, which 

 our traveller little expefted to find in the bofom of Africa. 

 From the beil inquiries he could make, he had reafon to 

 believe, that Sego contained altogether about 30,000 in- 

 liabitants. The king of Bambara cunitantly refides in the 

 largeil quarter of the city, called Sego See Korro ; he em- 

 ploys a great many flaves in conveying people over the 

 river ; and the money thus obtained, though the fare is only 

 ten cowries for each perfon, furni(hes a confiderable annual 

 revenue to the king. The boats on the Niger are of a fin- 

 gular conflruftion, each of them being formed of the trunks 

 of tvro large trees, rendered concave, and joined together, 

 not fide by fide, but lengthways ; the jundion being ex- 

 actly acrofs the middle of the boat. They are, therefore, 

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very long, and difproportionately narrow ; for Mr. Park 

 obfervcd in one of them four horfcs and a great many 

 people, crofling from a ferry. It was at a village near 

 this city that Mr. Park was ordered by the king to take up 

 his abode ; but the inhabitants being indifpofed, either 

 from averfion or from fear, to accommodate him witii 

 lodging and entertainment, he v.as under a neceflity of (hel- 

 tering himfelf, in a Itorm of thunder and rain, under a tree. 

 For an account of the hofpitable treatment iie received on 

 this occafion from a poor Negro woman, fee the article 

 Africa. When he received, on the third day of his abode, 

 an order from the king to depart from the vicinity of Sego, 

 Manfeng (the king) wifhing to rehcve a white man in di(- 

 trefs, fent him 5000 cowries, to enable him to purchafc 

 provifions in the courfe of his journey. The meflenger 

 added, that if Park's intentions were to proceed to Jennc, 

 he had orders to accompany him as a guide to Sanfanhing. 

 Sego is fituated in N. lat. 14° lo' 30". W. long. 2° 26'. 

 SEGOBRIGA, in Ancient Geography. See SEGOKBt:. 

 SEGODUNUM, a town of Galha Celtica, belonging 

 to the people called " Rutani," or " Ruteni," according 

 to Ptolemy. In the Peutingerian Tables, it is called " Se- 

 godum ;" and it afterwards took the name of " Rutena," 

 or " Ruteni," and at length that of Rhodez. 



SEGOLTA Rex, one of the Hebrew accents, ufually 

 anfwering to our femicolon, and marked witli three point-., 

 over a letter, thus (•.•) or (.•.) 



SEGONTIA, in Ancient Gesgraphy, a town of Spain, 

 in the Tarragonenfi;, upon the route from Emerita to Sara- 

 gofia, between Cafada and Arcobrega, according to the 

 Itinerary of Antonine. 



Segostia Paramica, a town of Spain, in the Tarra- 

 gonenfis, belonging to the people called " Vardiili." 



SEGONTIACI, a people of the ifle of Albion, who 

 inhabited with the Trinobantes, and were of the number of 

 thofe who fubmitted to Cxfar. 



SEGONZAC, in Geography, a town of Frince, in the 

 department of the Charente, and chief place of a canton, 

 in the diftrift of Cognac ; 6 miles S.E. of Cognac. The 

 place contains 2549, and the canton 12,386 inhabitants, 

 on a territory of 222^ kiliometres, in 19 communes. 



SEGOR, iji Ancient Geography, a town of Palefline, in 

 the Pentapolis, at the fouthern extremity of the Dead fca. 

 It efcaped the deftruftion of the four other towns of the 

 Pentapolis. Its firft name was " Bala ;" but Lot having 

 obtained permiflion to flee from Sodom, called it Segor, or 

 the little town. 



SEGORBE, in Geography, a town of Spain, in the 

 province of Valencia, with the title of duchy, agreeably 

 fituated in a very fertile vale, abounding in grain and in 

 fruit, on a river of the fame name, which there takes that 

 of Murviedro or Morviedro. Its population confills of 

 1200 families, or about 6000 fouls. Some people relying 

 on the fimilarity of names, pretend that this is the ancient 

 " Segobriga," which we find on many Roman medals ; 

 others, on the contrary, place that ancient town in Cafiile ; 

 and others in Aragon. Segorbe is the fee of a bi(hop, fuf- 

 fragan to Valencia, the diocefe of which comprehends 4 ; pa- 

 rifhes. The clergy of its cathedral are compofed of four 

 dignitaries, ten canons, twenty-four beneficiaries, and 

 thirty-three chap lins. The town has four convents of 

 monks, a convent of nuns, a fcminary, a hofpital, five her- 

 mitages, oratories or chapels ; a provifor, who is at once 

 official and vicar-general of the diocefe ; nine gates, and 

 fix fquares. It abounds in fountains, three of which are 

 public, and about forty in private houfes. It was taken 

 from the Moors in 1245, ^7 Jar"cs I., king of Aragon. 



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