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inches. At Amiens, 8579 feptiers = 10 Englifti quarters, 

 and each feptier — 2005 cubic inches. At Aries, 47.40 

 feptiers =10 Enghfh quarters, and each feptier = 3628 cu- 

 bic inches. At Boulogne, 16.32 feptiers = 10 Enghfh 

 quarters, and each feptier = 10,535 cubic inches. At Calais, 

 16.95 feptiers =: 10 Englifh quarters, and each feptier = 

 10, 144 cubic inches. At Cette, 42.98 feptiers — 10 Enghfh 

 quarters, and each feptier = 4002 cubic inches. At Liege, 

 94.14 feptiers =^ 10 Enghfh quarters, and each feptier =z 

 1827 cubic inches. At Montpellier, 53.21 feptiers = 10 

 Enghfh quarters, and each feptier = 3232 cubic inches. 

 At Nantes, 19.68 feptiers := 10 Englifh quarters, and 

 each feptier = 8739 cubic inches. At Paris, 18.38 fep- 

 tiers = 10 Englifh quarters, and each feptier = 936ocubic 

 inches. At Rouen, 15.75 feptiers = 10 Englifh quarters, 

 and each feptier = 10,920 cubic inches. At St. Valery, 

 18.38 feptiers = 10 Englifli quarters, and each feptier ^ 

 9356 cubic inches. 



The feptier is alfo a liquid meafure at Paris and in other 

 parts of France, and at Geneva. A muid of wine at Paris and 

 in fome other parts of France, contains 36 feptiers, 144 quarts 

 or pots, or 288 pintes, and 280 pintes without the lees. The 

 pinte contains 2 chopines, 4 demi-feptiers, or 8 poifl'ons, in 

 31147! French cubic inches, or 575 Englifh ditto; fo that a 

 French pinte is nearly equal to an Englifh quart ; and a muid 

 of wine contains 714 Englifh gallons. 



At Geneva, the char, wine meafure, contains 1 2 feptiers ; 

 the feptier, 24 quarterons, or 48 pots ; and the feptier is = 

 about 12 Englifh gallons ; 8.37 feptiers are = 100 Englifh 

 gallons wine meaiure, and each feptier = 2760 cubic inches. 

 SEPTIMANCA, Simancas, in Jndent Geography, a 

 town in the interior of Hifpania Citerior, belonging to the 

 Vaccians. / In the Itinerary of Antonineit is marked on the 

 route from Emerita to Saragoffa, between Amallobrica and 

 Nivaria. It was fituated on the Durias, S. of Pallentia. 

 SEPTIMENI. See Septumani. 

 SEPTIMINICTA, a town of Africa Propria, upon the 

 route from Thenae to Afi'uras, between Madaflama and Ta- 

 blata, according to the Itinerary of Antonine. 



SEPTIMONTIUM, among the Romans, a feflival ce- 

 lebrated in December, on all the feven hills of Rome ; 

 whence alfo it had this name, being otherwife called Ago- 

 naha. 



SEPTIZON, Septizonium, in the Ancient ArchiteHure, 

 a term almofl appropriated to a famous maufoleum of the 

 family of the Antonines, which, Aur. Vidlor tells ns, 

 was built in the tenth region of the city of Rome, being 

 a large infulated building, with feven ftages or ftories of 

 columns. 



The plan was fquare, and the upper ilories of columns 

 falling back much, rendered the pile of a pyramidical form, 

 terminated at top with the Itatue of the emperor Septimius 

 Severus, who built it. 



It had its K3.me /eptic!.on, feptizonium, irom feflem and zona, 

 q. d. feven zones or girdles, by reafon of its being girt with 

 feven rows of columns. 



Hiftorians make mention of another feptizon, more an- 

 cient than that of Severus, built near the Thermae of An- 

 toninus. 



SEPTUAGESIMA, in the Calendar, denotes the 

 third Sunday before Lent, or before quadragefima ; and 

 quinquagefima is the next before quadragefima, then 

 fexagefima and feptuagefima : thefe were all days appro- 

 priated by the church to afts of penance and mortification, 

 by way of preparing for the devotion of the lent enfuing. 



It is fuppofed by fome to take its name from its being 

 about feventy days before Eafter : pope Telefphorus lirft 



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made it a feaft day, and appointed Lent to commence 

 from it. 



The laws of king Canutus ordained a vacation from judi- 

 cature, from feptuagefima to quindena pafchx. (SeeQuiN- 

 QUAGESIMA.) From feptuagefima to the ottaves after 

 Ealler, marriage is forbidden by the canon law. 



SEPTUAGINT, LXX, or the Seventy, a term famous 

 among divines and critics, for a verfion of the Old Teftament 

 out of Hebrew into Greek, faid to have been performed by 

 feventy-two Jewifh interpreters, in obedience to an order of 

 Ptolemy Philadelphus. 



The ancients, till Jerom's time, univerfally believed, that 

 the Seventy were infpired perfons, not mere tranflators, 

 grounding their belief on a fabulous hiftory of this verfion 

 given by Ariileas ; who tells us, that the high-prielt Eleazar 

 chofe fix doftors out of each tribe for this office, which 

 made the number of feventy-two ; and that thefe being fhut 

 up each in his feveral cell, each tranflated the whole ; and 

 without feeing what any of the reft had done, they were found 

 to agree to a letter. 



The learned Dr. Hody, " De Bibliorum Textibus Ori- 

 ginalibus," &c. who feems to have ftudied the origin of the 

 Greek verfion more accurately than any critic before him, 

 has laboured very fuccefsfuUy in detefting the falfe itory of 

 Arifleas ; and he has hkewife proved, that this verfion was 

 made by the Jews living at Alexandria, for the ufe of them- 

 lelves and many thoufands of their brethren, who were then 

 fettled in Egypt, and who, living among the Greeks, gene- 

 rally ufed the Greek language. And he has alfo proved, 

 that the whole Hebrew bible was not tranflated into Greek 

 at once, but that different parts were tranflated at different 

 times : that the Pentateuch was tranflated firft, about 285 

 years before Chrift ; that only the Pentateuch was read in 

 the fynagogues till about 170 years before Chrift, when 

 Antiochus Epiphanes, their cruel perfecutor, forbad them 

 to recite any part of the law ; that foon after this prohibi- 

 tion, the Jews tranflated into Greek Ifaiah, and the follow- 

 ing prophets, for the ufe of the temple at HeliopoUs and 

 the Alexandrian fynagogues ; and that the other books were 

 tranflated afterwards, with different degrees of fkill and 

 care, at various times, and by various perfons. See alfo on 

 this fubjeft Prideaux's Conneft. vol. iii. p. 38, &c. Brett's 

 Diflertation on the ancient Verfion of the Bible, publifhed 

 in Bifliop Watfon's CoUeftion of Trafts ; Dupin's Canon, 

 Walton's Prolegomena, &c. &c. See Alexandrian 

 Copy, and Greek Bible. 



Septuagint, Chronology of the, or Seventy, is an ac- 

 count of the years of the world, very different from 

 what is found in the Hebrew text, and the Vulgate ; 

 making the world 1466 years older than it is found in thefe 

 latter. 



The critics are much divided as to the point of preference. 

 Baronius prefers the account of the Seventy ; and If. Voflius 

 makes an apology for it. The two lateft and moll ftre- 

 nuous advocates in this difpute, are father Pezron, a Ber- 

 nardine, and father Le Quien, a Dominican ; the firft of 

 whom defends the chronology of the Septuagint, and 

 the latter that of the Hebrew text. See Sacred Chrono- 

 logy. 



SEPTUM, in Anatomy, a name applied to various parts 

 of the body ; generally fuch as feparate contiguous ca- 

 vities. 



The Septum Auricularum in the heart is placed between 

 the two auricles. See Heart. 



Septum Cerebri and CerebelH, the falciform proccfles of 

 the dura mater. See Brain. 



Septum 



