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SEPARI, in Ancient Geography, a people who inhabited 

 an ifland on the coail of Liburnia, according to Phny. 



SEPAUNAGUR, in Geography, a town of Hindoo- 

 ftan, in the circar of Bopal ; 30 miles W. of Hulfingabad. 



SEPAUX, a town of France, m the dijpartment of the 

 Yonne ; 9 miles W. of Joigny. 



SEPELACUS, in Ancient Geography, a place of Spain, 

 upon the route from Tarragon to Carthage, between Ildua 

 and Saguntum, according to the Itinerary of Antonine. 



SEPHAAT, or Zephat, a town of Paleftine, in the 

 tribe of Simeon, according to the book of Judges. 



SEPHALITES. See Moatazalites. 



SEPHAMA, in ylndent Geography, a town of Afia, in 

 Syria, which ferved as a limit to the land of promife, ac- 

 cording to the book of Numbers. 



SEPHAR, a mountain of the Eaft, probably about 

 Armenia. (See Gen. x. 30.) This mountain fcems to have 

 been the habitation of the Sepharvaim and of the Sufpires, 

 mentioned by geographers. 



SEPHARVAIM, a people who were brought by Shal- 

 manafer into Paleftine, to fupply the place of the Ifraelites, 

 whom he carried away from Samaria to a country be- 

 yond the Euphrates (2 Kings, xvii. 24. 31.) A.M. 32S3, 

 B. C. 1721. Their former habitations feem to have been on 

 the mountains of Sephar, and the Sofpires or Sufpires, who, 

 according to Herodotus (bb. i. iii. vii.) were the only peo- 

 ple that inhabited between the Colchians and the Medes, were 

 probably the Sepharvaim. The Scripture fpeaks (Ifaiah, 

 xxxvii. 13. 2 Kings, xix. 13.) of the city of Sepharvaim, 

 which was probably the capital of thefe people, and the 

 king of Sepharvaim was the god of thefe people. See 

 2 Kings, xviii. 34. If. xxxvii. 13. 2 Kings, xix. 13. 



SEPHIROS, a word ufed by Paracelfus and his fol- 

 lowers, to exprefs a fort of dry and hard impolthume, or 

 kind of fpurious fcirrhus. 



SEPHIROTH, a Hebrew word fignifying brlghtnejes ; 

 and the cabalifts give the name of fephiroth to the moft fecret 

 parts of their fcience. 



SEPHORIS, in Ancient Geography, a famous city of 

 Zebulun, and the capital of Galilee ; afterwards named 

 Diocxfarea ; 18 according to fome, and according to others 

 19 miles from Tiberias. It was not far from Tabor and the 

 great plain. Jofephus reprefents it as the largeft and beft 

 city in Judea, and ftates, that it became the capital of it, 

 after Nero had given Galilee to the younger Agrippa. The 

 firft city of Galilee in going from Ptolemais was Sephoris. 

 Jofeph. de Bello, 1. ii. c. 23. 1. iii. c. I. 



SEPHOURY, or Safpure, in Geography, a town or 

 village of Paleftine, anciently Sephor or Sephoris, which wai 

 once the ftrongeit town of the country, and capital of Ga- 

 lilee, before Tiberias; called alfoDiocsefarea. Here was 

 held one of the five judicatures of Paleftine. It was forti- 

 fied by Herod, and deftroyed in the time of Conftantius, on 

 an infurredion of the Jews. It was once much venerated as 

 the habitation of Joachim and Anna, parents of theblefled 

 Virgin ; 12 miles N.W. of Tabaria; 



SEPIA, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of the Pe- 

 loponnefus, in Arcadia, to the left of mount Geronte, near 

 a place called Tricene, upon which iEgyptus, the fon of 

 Elatus, died from the fting of a ferpent, and where he was 

 buried, according to Paufanias. 



S£PiA, in Natural Hiftory, the Cuttle-fjh, a genus of the 

 Vermes-MoUufca clafs and order, of which the generic cha- 

 rafter is as follows ; the body is flefhy, receiving the breaft 

 iin a (heath, with a tubular aperture at its bafe ; it has eight 

 arras, befet with numerous warts or fuckeri, and in moft 



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fpecies two pedunculated tentacula ; the head is fhort ; the 

 eyes large ; the mouth refembling a parrot's beak. 

 . Thefe animals inhabit various feas, and in hot climates 

 fome of them grow to an enormous fize : they are armed 

 with a dreadful apparatus of holders furniftied with fuckers, 

 by which they faften upon and convey their prey to the 

 mouth ; they have the power of fquirting out a black fluid 

 refembling ink, and which is faid to be an ingredient in the 

 compoCtion of Indian ink ; the bone in the back is con- 

 verted into pounce : the eggs are depofited upon fea-weed, 

 and exaftly refemble a bunch of grapes ; at the moment the 

 female depofits them they are white, but the males pafs over 

 them to impregnate them, and they then become black ; 

 they are round, with a httle point at the end, and in each of 

 them is enclofed a living cuttle-fifh, furrounded by a gela- 

 tmous fluid. There are eight fpecies, of which five are na- 

 tives of this country. 



Species. 



* Octopus. The fpecific charafter of this fpecies is, that 

 the body has no tail or appendage ; it has no pedunculated ten- 

 tacula, or longer arms. It is found in the Mediterranean and 

 Indian feas, in the latter of which it fometimes grows to a vaft 

 fize ; the arras are faid to be eight or nine fathoms long. 

 In thefe feas the Indians never venture out without hatchets 

 in their boats, to cut off the arms, fliould it attempt to 

 faften upon them under water. This fpecies is charafterized 

 by the (hortnefs of the body, which is rounded behind ; the 

 arms taper to a point, joined at the bafe by a membrane or 

 web, and covered within with two rows of alternate fuckers. 

 When opened this animal is faid to exhibit fo brilliant a 

 light as to illuminate a large room. 



* Officinalis. Body without tail or appendage, and 

 furrounded by a margin ; it has two tentacula, or longer 

 arms. This is found on our own coafts, and alfo in other 

 oceans, and is frequently the prey of the whale tribe, and 

 of piaife ; its arms are frequently eaten by the conger-eel, 

 and are reproduced ; the bony fcale on the back is that 

 which is fold in the fliops ; and the black matter which it 

 fquirts out to darken the waters round it, and elude the pur- 

 fuit of its enemies, is fometimes ufed as ink. The body 

 was eaten by the ancients, and it is even now ufed as food 

 by the Italians. The body of this fpecies is ovate, the 

 margin crenate, and interrupted at the bottom ; eight of 

 the arms are (hort and pointed ; the two tentacula are four 

 times as long as the others ; they are rounded, and the tip» 

 are very broad, and furniftied within with numerous fuckers. 



Unguiculata. The body of this is without a tail or 

 appendage ; the arms are furniftied with hooks, and it it 

 found in the Pacific ocean. The body is rounded behind ; 

 the arms are furniftied with hooks, which are retraftile 

 within their proper ftieaths inftead of fuckers. 



Hkxapus. The body of this is tailed, four or five- 

 jointed ; arms only fix in number. This alfo is found in the 

 Pacific ocean. The body is about half a foot long, and 

 the thicknefs of a finger ; arms furniftied with very minute 

 fuckers, which ftick faft to whatever it fixes on. 



* Media. Body long, flender, cylindrical ; the tail it 

 finned, pointed, and carinate on each fide ; it has two long 

 arms. It inhabits the ocean, and in fome refpefts it re- 

 fembles the S. officinalis. The body ends in a point, and 

 is furniftied with a membrane on each fide, commencing 

 about the middle of the body. 



* LoLiGO ; the Calamary. The body of this is fubcy- 

 lindrical, fubulate, and furniftied with a flattifti fliarp-edged • 

 rhombic membraHe at the tail on each fide. This is found 

 in divers part* of the ocean, and is from nine to twelve 



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