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SEGURa, a town ef Spain, in the kingdom of Ara- 

 gon ; 23 miles S.E. of Daroca. — Alfo, a river of Spain, 

 which rifes in tlie mountains of Murcia, 10 miles S.S.E. 

 from Segura de la Sierra, traverfes the province of Murcia, 

 and the iouth part of Valencia, and runs into the Mediter- 

 ranean, 16 miles S.S.W. of Alicant. — Alfo, a town of 

 Spain, in Guipufcoa ; 18 miles S.S.W. of St. Sebaftian. — 

 Alfo, a tovrn of Portugal, in the province of Beira, near 

 the frontiers of Spain ; 6 miles N. of Rofmarilhal. — Alfo, a 

 town of Spain, in Eilremadura ; 25 miles S.E. of Xeres 

 de los Caballeros. 



Segura de la Frontera, a town of Mexico, in the pro- 

 vince of Tlafcala, built by Cortes ; 50 miles S. of Tlaf- 

 cala. 



Secura </(" la Sierra, a town of Spain, in Murcia ; 60 

 miles S.W. of Chinchilla. 



SEGUS, a town of France, in the department of the 

 Upper Pyrenees ; 4 miles N. of Argellez. 



Segus, in Ancient Geography, a river of Germany, the 

 banks of which were inhabited by the Sicambri, according 

 to Caefar and Tacitus. 



SEGtJSIANI, the inhabitants of Segufio. Their 

 country, in Cifalpine Tranfpadane Ganl, towards the fourccs 

 of the Duria Minor, formed a fmall ftate, of which Cot- 

 tius was the only king upon record. This prince retired to 

 the mountains, and efcaped fubjeftion to the Roman yoke 

 by his obfcurity. But he fought fecurity in an alliance with 

 the Romans, and with this view he flattered Auguftus by 

 afluming the name of Julius Cottius. He made many 

 efforts for rendering the pad'age of the Alps praflicable in 

 that part which he occupied. Claudius, upon augmenting 

 his fmall territory, gave him the name of king. After his 

 death, Nero united this country to the empire ; but the me- 

 mory of Cottius was long refpefted in the country which he 

 governed. In the time of Ammianus Marcellinus, that is, 

 about tlie year 370 of our era, the tomb of Cottius was 

 (hewn at Seguia. One part of the Alps took its name, 

 " Cottian," from him. 



Segu.siani, or Seai/iani, a people of Gallia Celtica, 

 or X.yonnenfH. To the N. were the CEdui and Se- 

 quani, to the E. and N. the Allobroges, and to the W. the 

 Avcrni. Pliny fays, that thcfe people were dependent on 

 the CEdui in the time of Ciefar ; but that they rendered 

 themfelves independent under the empire of Auguftus. 



SEGUSIO, SuzE, a town formerly not inconfiderable, 

 in Tranfpadane Gaul, among the mountains, on Duria 

 Minor. Under the Romans it obtained the title of muni- 

 cipal. In later times, its rulers were defignated by the title 

 of marquis. At prefcnt it i."; comprehended in Piedmont. 

 Among other things found in this place is the triumphal 

 arch on which were infcribed the appellations of the people 

 who were fubjeft to Cottius in the time of Auguftus. See 

 Segusiani. 



SEGUSTERO, Sistekon, a town of Gallia Narbon- 

 nenfis. From its Celtic name we are led to prefume that it 

 exilled, or at leaft that its territory was inhabited, before the 

 Romans came into Provence. Some have thought that this 

 town depended on the Avantici. 



SEGWAH, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Caglana ; 20 miles S.S.E. of Damaun. 



SEHALOUR, a town of Hindooftan, in Myfore ; 36 

 mills N. of Seringapatam. 



SEHAN, a town of Arabia, in Yemen ; 3 miles 

 W.N.W. of Doran. 



SEHAURUNPOUR, a town of Hindooftan, and ca- 

 pital of a circar, to which it gives name, between the Jum- 

 nah and the Ganges, in the fubah cf J)elhi ; 86 miles N. 



of Delhi. N. lat. 30" 4'. E. long. 77' 15'.— Alfo, a cir- 

 car or province of Hindooftan, in the fubah of Delhi, 

 bounded on the N. by moimtains, which feparate it from 

 Thibet, on the E. by the Ganges, which divides it from 

 Sumbul, on the S. by the diftrift of Delhi, and on the W. 

 by Sirhind, from which it is divided by the river .lumnah. Its 

 chief towns are Schaurunpour, Mcrt-tt, and Hurdwar. It 

 is about 90 miles from E. to W., and nearly the fame from 

 N. to S. 



SEHESTEN, a town of Pruffia, in the province of 

 Natangen ; 54 miles S.E. of Konigfberg. 



SEHIMA, in Botany, fo called by Forflol, from its 

 Arabic name ; a genus of that author's, feparated from 

 I/chamum, but apparently without fr*ficient reafon. 



SEHIRMAN, in Geography, a mountain of Arabia, in 

 the province of Yemen ; 8 miles S. of Kataba. 



SEHWAN, a town of Seweeftan, on the Siiade ; 66 

 miles N.E. of Nufierpour. N. lat. 26° 5'. E. long. 

 69° 16'. 



SEIAL,a town of Perfia,in the province of Adirbeitzan; 

 50 miles S.E. of Ardebil. 



SEJANT is a term ufed in Heraldry, when a lion, or 

 other beaft, is drawn in an efcutcheon, fitting like a cat, 

 with his fore-feet ftraight. 



SEJANUS, .^Lius, in Biography, celebrated in the hif- 

 tory of Rome for the tyranny of his adminiftration, was a 

 native of Vulfinii, in Etruria. His father, Seius Strabo, a 

 Roman knight, was commander of the praetorian guards in 

 the reigns of Auguftus and Tiberius, ^lius, when young, 

 attached himfelfto Caius Csfar, the grandfon of Auguftus. 

 After the death of that prince, and of Auguftus, he 

 was affbciated with his father in his command, by Tiberius, 

 with whom he rofe to great favour, and was appointed go- 

 vernor to young Drufus. When the theatre of Pompey was 

 deftroyed by fire, the emperor, at the time that he declared 

 his intention of rebuilding it, pronounced an eulogy on Se- 

 janus before the fenate, on which that fervile body decreed 

 him a ftatue, to be placed in the new edifice. Having by 

 his artifices and diflimulation obtained a complete afcejidancy 

 over the mind of Tiberius, he applied himlclf to ftrengthen 

 the fabric of his power, and pave the way to higher ho- 

 nours. With this view he ingratiated lumfelf as much as 

 poffible with the prstorian guards, and he created a great 

 perlonal intereft in the fenate, by means of his recommenda- 

 tions to lucrative places, and he is faid to have fecured the 

 wives of many men of high rank by fecrct promifes of mar- 

 riage. The imperial family being, as he thought, a confi- 

 derable obftacle to his projciis of ambition, he determined 

 upon their deftruftion ; and beginning with Drufus, the Ion 

 of the emperor, who had manifefted a jcalouly of his in- 

 fluence, he entered into a criminal intrigue with ■ his wife 

 Livi M, the fifter of Gernianicus, by means of whom he was 

 luppoled to have caufed a flow poifon to be adminiftered to 

 that prince, which occafioned his death. He next endea- 

 voured to perfuadc Tiberius to quit Rome, and retire to a 

 life of repole, that the whole care of government might de- 

 volve upon himlelf, and that nothing ftiould reach the cm- 

 peror's ears but through a channel lubjctt to his controul. 

 This he eff^cfted in the twelfth year of Tiberius's reiga, 

 and from that moment Sejanue was mafter of Rome. The 

 diflike manifefted by the emperor to the widow and family of 

 Germanicus was inflamed by the minifter, till his perfecution 

 of them ended in the bnniftiment and death of Agrippina 

 and her two fons. Every kind of homage was now paid to 

 the minifter, Rome was crowded with his ftatues, and the 

 fenator.^ all vied with each other in adulation of the favourite. 

 At length Tiberius began to be fufpicious of his defigns, 

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