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SERGENTIUM, m Ancient Geography, a town fituated 

 in the interior of Sicily. Ptolemy. 



SE RGIEV, in Geography, a town of Ruffia, in the govern- 

 ment of Tobollk, on the Enifei ; 72 miles N. of Enifeiflc. 



SERGIEVSK, a town of Ruffia, in the government of 

 Upha ; 1 80 miles W. of Upha. N. lat. 54°. E. long. 54"' 44'. 



SERGIEVSKAIA Nova, a fortrefs of Ruffia, in the 

 {rovernment of Upha, on the Samara ; 56 miles N.W. of 

 Orenburg. 



SERGIEVSKOI, a town of Ruffia, in the province of 

 Uftiug, on the Vim ; 52 miles N.E. of Yarenfl<. — Alfo, a 

 town of Ruffia, in the province of Ekaterinburg ; 48 miles 

 S.W. of Ekaterinburg. 



SERGILUS, in Botany, a genus formed by Gsertner, 

 T. 2. 409. t. 174. f. 6, of the Linnsean Calen fcoparia, Chry- 

 focoma n. 2, Browne Jam. 316. t. 34. f. 4, by the following 

 charafter. 



Calyx fomewhat turbinate, imbricated with clofe-prefled, 

 unequal, (lightly membranous fcales. Flowers all perfeft 

 and fertile, live-cleft. Receptacle naked. Down capillary, 

 tufted at the fummit. 



The above author remarks that this plant " differs in its 

 receptacle, as well zi feed-doivn, from Calea, but from Chry- 

 focoma in x\\e feed-doiun only, fo that it is neareft akin to the 

 latter. The leaves feem to be fometimes oppofite, but are 

 generally very remote, as well as extremely minute." The 

 only fpecies known is 



I. S./coparius. Native of the coldeft mountains of Ja- 

 maica. Browne fays it has the habit of our European 

 broom, being the only tree of the fame appearance, obferved 

 by him in that country. Swartz has not noticed this plant. 

 See Calea and Chrysocoma. 



SERGINES, in Geography, a town of France, in the de- 

 partment of the Yonne, and chief place of a canton, in the 

 diilritt of Sens ; 9 miles N. of Sens. The place contains 

 1484, and the canton 10,094 inhabitants, on a territory of 

 260 kiliometres, in 18 communes. 



SERGIPE del Conde, a river of Brazil, which runs 

 into the bay of All Saints. 



Sergipe, or Sergippe, a captaincy or province of Brazil, 

 which chiefly produces cattle, grain, and tobacco, for 

 which lalt Brazil is particularly celebrated Alfo, the ca- 

 pital of the diltriil, fituated near the coall of the Atlantic, 

 on a river of the fame name, which runs into the Atlantic, 

 S. lat. 1 2°. The town is diftant 140 miles from St. Salvador. 

 S. lat. 11° 42'. W. long. 38° 36. 



SERGIUS I., pope, in Biography, was defcended from a 

 family at Antioch, but was himfelf born, and brought up 

 at Palermo. He came to Rome in the time of pope Adeo- 

 datus, and entering among the clergy of that capital, was 

 ordained pricll by Leo II. On the death of Conon, in the 

 year 687, there was a great fchifm refpefting his fucceflor, 

 one party efpoufing the caufe of Theodore the archpriell, 

 and the other that of Pafchal the archdeacon. The principal 

 perfons of Rome, not being able to bring them to an agree- 

 ment, concurred in the choice of Sergius, and put him in 

 pofleffinn by force. Theodore inftantly refigned his claim, 

 but Pafchal did not give up his pretenfions for a confiderable 

 time. He at length, however, fubmitted. The fecond 

 year of the pontificate of Sergius was rendered memorable 

 by the arrival at Rome of Ceadwalla, king of the Wcft- 

 Saxons, who came to receive baptifm from his hand?, and 

 who died fbon after he had fubmitted to that rite. In 691 the 

 emperor Juftinian II. adembled a council at Conflantinople, 

 in which a number of canons were pafTed. Five of thefe 

 were oppofcd by the pope, among which was one condemn- 

 ing a former canon of the church, that forbad ccclefiaftical 

 perfons to have any conneftion with their wives after ordina- 



tion. Sergius not only rejefted thefe canons, but on their 

 account invalidated all tlie proceedings of this council, which 

 fo much exafperated the emperor, that he fent his fword- 

 bearer with an order to apprehend the pope, and bring 

 him to Conftantinople. The foldiery in Italy, however, 

 ftanding in fo much awe of his holinefs, not only refufed to 

 fuffer violence to be offered to him, but intimidated the 

 fword-bearer, that he dared not execute his commiffion, and 

 was glad to quit Rome in fafety. In 696 Sergius confe- 

 crated Willibrod bifhop of the Frifians, recommended to him 

 by Pepin the elder, as a perfon every way adapted to undertake 

 the converfion of that heathen people. Sergius died in the 

 year 701, in the 14th year of his pontificate. He had the 

 reputation of much learning and virtue, and is faid to have 

 repaired and enriched feveral churches, which added, in theft 

 times, very much to his celebrity. 



Sergius II., pope, a Roman, was elefted in 844, on 

 the death of Gregory IV. He had a competitor in John, 

 deacon of the Roman church, who took pofleffion of the 

 Lateran, but was expelled by the nobility. Sergius was con- 

 fecrated immediately after his eleftion, without waiting for 

 the imperial confirmation. Lothaire, the emperor, fo mucli 

 refented this feeming hoftility, that he fent into Italy his 

 fon Lewis, whom he had declared king of Lombardy, with 

 a powerful army, attended by his uncle Drogo, archbifhop 

 of Metz. This prince, after cruelly ravaging the ecclefi- 

 aftical ftate, marched to Rome, and entered the city amidft 

 the acclamations of the people. He proceeded to the 

 Vatican church, in great folemnity, with the pope, and 

 was afterwards crowned by the latter as king of Italy. 

 Sergius now gladly took the accuflomed oath of allegiance 

 to the emperor, and received a confirmation of his eleftion. 

 This pontificate, fhort as it was, is marked by the predatory 

 incurfions of the Saracens, who failing up the Tiber, burnt 

 the fuburbs of Rome, and pillaged the churches of St. 

 Peter and St. Paul without the walls. Sergius died in 847. 

 The famous fcala-fanna, or holy flair-cafe at Rome, was 

 erefted during the pontificate of Sergius II. 



Sergius III., pope, a prefbyter of the church, though 

 elefted by a party, in 898, after the death of Theodore II., 

 was not able to enter upon the duties of his office. A 

 more powerful party fupported John IX., and Sergius was 

 glad to feek his fafety by flight from the city. He lay in 

 concealment for feven years, during which he contrived to 

 engage in his interelt his relation Adelbert, marquis of 

 Tufcany, by whofe affiflancc he was enabled to expel 

 Chriltopher, who had forcibly intruded into the pontifical 

 feat, and placed himfelf there in the year 904. Sergius, 

 who is termed by Baronius, and apparently with good rea- 

 fon, " one of the mofl wicked of men," had a fcandalous 

 conneftion with the infamous Marozia, who with her mother 

 Theodora, and her filler of the fame name, at that time 

 almoft entirely governed Rome, and difpofed of the holy- 

 fee. Marozia, who had already been miflrels of the mar- 

 quis Adelbert, bore a fon to the pope, who was afterwards 

 raifed to the papal throne under the name of John XL, 

 fuch is the purity of the holy bifhops of the Roman church. 

 Sergius received a folemn embafiy from Leo, emperor of 

 the Eail, on account of the refufal of the patriarch Nicholas 

 to confirm the fourth marriage of Leo, as forbidden by the 

 Greek church. Sergius, as there was no limitation to the 

 number of fucceffive marriages in the Roman church, not 

 only approved the marriage of Leo, but fent legates to 

 Conftantinople to confirm it. The patriarch, however, 

 could not be prevailed upon to admit its legality. Sergius 

 died in 911. He rebuilt the Lateran church. 



Skrgius IV., pope, a native of Rome, whofe family 



name is faid to have been Peter Buccaporci, or in Englifli, 



M m 2 Hog'*- 



