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SICCHASIA, a word ufed by fome writers to exprefs 

 tiiat uiieafinefs at the ftomach, and loathing of food, which 

 women are often afflitlcd with in their pregnancy. 



SICCHOS, in Geography, a town of South America, 

 in the audience of Quito ; 20 miles W. of Latacunga. 



SICCINNIS, in /Intiquity, a mixed kind of dance. 



SICERA, in the Jeiu'ijh ylntiquities. The Hellenilt 

 Jews give this name to any inebriating liquor. St. Chry- 

 foltom, Theodoret, and Theophilus of Antioch, who were 

 Syrians, and who therefore ought to know the fignification 

 and nature of ficera, allure us, that it properly fignilies 

 palm-wine. 



Pliny acknowledges, that the wine of the palm-tree was 

 very well known through all the Ealt, and that it was made 

 by taking a bufhel of the dates of the palm-tree, and throw- 

 ing them into three gallons of water ; then fqueezing out 

 the jnice, it would intoxicate like wine. 



The wine of the palm-tree is white ; when it is drank new, 

 it has the talte of the cocoa, and is fweet as honey ; when 

 it is kept longer, it grows ilrong, and intoxicates. After 

 long keeping, it becomes vinegar. 



SICHAR, in Ancient Geography. See the next article. 



SICHEM, or SliECllii.M, called alfo Neapolis, S'lchar 

 or Sychar, and Maharlha, a town of .Tudea, in the tribe of 

 Ephraim, which took up the iouth fide of Samaria. This 

 town wa"! fituated on the fummit of a mountain, and be- 

 came one of the itrongelt: and moll celebrated towns of this 

 tribe. It was at this place that Abraham lodged, on his 

 way to Canaan (Gen. xii. 6.); and it afterwards became 

 the abode of Jacob, who bought a field in its vicinity, 

 which he gave to his fon Jofeph, who was buried here. 

 (Gen. xlviii. 22.) Near the fame city was Jacob's well or 

 fountain, at which Jefus difcourfed with the woman of Sa- 

 maria. (John, iv. J.) .Jofhua gave it to the Levites of 

 the tribe of Ephraim, who belonged to the family of Ko- 

 hath, the firft of the Levites ; and it was appointed to be 

 one of the fix cities of refuge. (Jo(h. xxi. ) It was at 

 Sichem that Jofhua aflembled the tribes of Ifrael (Jolh. 

 Xxiv. I.), to renew their engagement of fidelity to God. 

 Sichem was dellroyed by Abimelcch ; but it appears to 

 have been afterwards rc-e(lablifhcd, becaufe it is faid 

 (1 Kings, xii. 2.) that Rehoboam came hither, after the 

 death of Solomon his father ; and it was fortilied and in- 

 habited by .leroboam. (i Kings, xii. 25.) After the ruin 

 of Samaria by Shalmanefer, Sichem was the capital of the 

 Samaritans; and Jofcphus fays (Antiq. lib. xi. cap. 8.), 

 that it was fo in the time of Alexander the Great. It was 

 diftant, according to Eufebius and Jerom, 10 or 12 miles 

 from Shiloh, 40 from Jcrufalem, and J2 from Jericho. 

 Jerom fays, that Paula vilited the church built on Jacob's 

 fountain ; and others, who wrote in ihe eighth century, 

 fpcak of this building ; but it is not mentioned by Phocas, 

 who wrote in the twelfth century. Sichem or Sichar is 

 DOW Naploufe, or Nablous ; which fee. 



Sichem, or Siehen, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of tlie Dyle, on tiie Dcmer ; 30 miles N.E. 

 of Bruiicls. 



SICHERFREUTH, a town of Germany, in the prin- 

 cijiallty of Bay rent h ; 3 miles S.E. of Bayrcuth. 



SICHILI. See Snc iiii.i. 



SICHLAN, a river of Ruffn, which runs into the 

 Ochot(l<oi fea, N. lat. 59'" 28'. E. long 152" 14'. 



RICHOUI-LO-HOTUN, a town of Corea, in the fea 

 of Japan. N. lat. 42° 20'. E. long. 130° 29'. 



SICHROW, a town of Bohemia, iu the circle of 

 Boledaw ; 3 miles N.N.W. of Turnau. 



SICHTELEN. See Suciitelen. 



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SICHU, a town of Mexico, in the province of Mecho- 

 acan ; 120 miles N.N.E. (jf Mechoacan. — Alfo, a town of 

 Mexico, in the province of Gualleca ; 150 miles W.S.W. 

 of Pannco. 



SICIGNANO, a town of Naples, in Principato Citra ; 

 ID miles W. of Cangiano. 



SICILIAN Meafures, Sili, and Fefpers. See the 

 fubftantives. 



SICILIANA, in Botany, a name given by Dodoiiosiis, 

 and fome other authors, to the great androfaemum, called 

 tut/an, and parL-leavcs. 



SiciLiANA, a palloral movement in a (low jig-time of J. 

 The charaftcr of this movement requires a point to the firlt 

 note of almoft every triplet. Nothing is more plcafing 

 than the Sicilian Hrains of great mailers. Handel hardly 

 ever fails rendering them charafteriltic, touching, and 

 pleafing ; fuch as, " He fliall feed his Flock like a Shep- 

 herd ;" " Let me wander not unfeen," &c. 



SICILIANE, or Pastouale, a kind of fimple rural 

 mufic, refounding in Chrillmas time through all quarters of 

 Naples, and executed by Abruzzefe or Calabrian fliep- 

 herds, upon a fpecies of bai';-pipes, called in Abruzzo 

 zampagne, and ciaramelli in Calabria. The tunes vary, 

 according to the provinces : in the fouth, they have three 

 different airs ; the northern fliepherds have only two, to 

 which they add any variations which the boldnefs of their 

 own genius infpires. The boys learn of their fathers to 

 play upon this inftrument, as the means of fubfiftence. 

 The waits, llill kept up in the pay of fome corporations in 

 England, are counterparts of thefe fliepherds. 



SICILICUM, the name of a weight in ufe among the 

 ancients ; which, fome lay, was equal to three dracluns of 

 our weight : others fay only to two. 



SICILY, in Ancient and Modern Geography, an ifland in 

 the Mediterranean, the largell of all the illands in this fea, 

 being about 170 Britifh miles in length, and 70 in medial 

 breadth. Swinburne reckons its greatclt length at 210 

 miles, and breadth 133 ; and places it between N. lat. 36° 

 25' and 38^ 25', and E. long. 12° 50' and 16 5'. Sicily 

 is feparated from the continent by the llraits ol Mefiina, 

 which, in fome parts, are about four miles broad. (See 

 CiiAHViiDi.s, Mes.sina, and Scyi-EA.) At MefTina, and at 

 the mouth of the llraits between the promontories of Pelorus 

 in Sicily and the Lode di Volpa, or Foxes' Tail, in Cala- 

 bria, is nearly a mile. Many of the ancient hillorians and 

 poets have Hated that this illand was formerly joined to the 

 continent, and fevered from it, at an unknown period, by 

 fome extraordinary convulfinn ; nor is this opinion at all im- 

 probable. Accordingly Pomponius Mela obferves, " Sicilij, 

 ut fcrnnt, aliquando agro Brutio adnexa." To the fame 

 piirpol'e Virgil (iEn. 1. iii. v. 414.) fays: 



" Hxc loca vi quondam, ct valla convulfa ruina 

 Dilliluille ferunt, cum protinus utraque Tellus 

 Una foret. Venit medio vi pontus ct undis 

 Hefperium ficulo latus abfcidit." 



Sllius Italicus details this event more at large (lib. xiv.) : 



" Aufonix pars magna jacet Trinacria Tellns 

 Ut femel expngnante n.ito, et vallantibus undis 

 Accepit freta cwrules propulfa trulcntc, 

 Naniquc [ler dccultum cxca vi turbinis olim 

 Impadum Pelagus lacerata vilcera terrx 

 Difcidit, ct medio perrimipeiis arva profundo. 

 Cum populis pariter convullas tranllulit urbcs." 



Claudiau aflirms pofitively, 



•' Trinacria quondam Italix pars fuit." 



Pliny, 



