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Titania Csfaiienfis. Ptolemy places the moiitli of it be- 

 tween the town of Sle^a and the mouth of the river Afarath. 

 — Alfo, a town of Africa, in Mauritania Ca^farienfis. It 

 had the title of a colony, and was fituated between the 

 port Gypfaria and the mouth of the river Siga. Ptolemy. 

 Strabo fays, that this town was dellroyed by the Romans, 

 nnd that the palace of Syphax was here. — Alfo, a royal 

 town, fituated in Africa, in Numidia, and on the vveltern 

 part of the river Mulucha. It was the capital of the 

 kiriijdom of Syphax. 



SIGAGIK, in Geography, a town of Afiatic Turkey, 

 in Natolia, on the fea-coall ; 14 miles S.W. of Smyrna. 

 N. lat. 38^ 18'. E. long. 1 6° 31'. 



SIGAH-G;//J, or SlY AH-GhuJh, or Blaci-Ear, in Zoology, 

 the name of a Perfian animal, ot the felis or cat-kind, and 

 no way differing from the lynx, but in that it has no fpots ; 

 it has a lengthened face, and fmall head ; its ears have 

 the tine velvety black pencil of hairs at the top, which are 

 the dillinguilhing character of the lynx ; the infide and 

 bottom of the ears are white ; the nofe white, the eyes fmall, 

 the upper part of the body of a very pale reddifh-brown, 

 the tail darker, and about half the length of the body ; the 

 belly and bread whitilh ; the limbs ftrong, and pretty long, 

 the hind-part of each marked with black. Tins animal 

 iniiabits Perfia, India, and Barbary ; and is ufed in the 

 chace of lefler q\iadrupeds, and the larger fort of birds, 

 which they artf illy furprife and feize ; it is faid to attend 

 upon the lion, and to feed on the remains of its prey. It 

 is fierce when provoked. Pennant's Hift. Quadr. vol. ii, 

 p. 283. Phil. Tranf. vol. li. part ii. p. 648, &c. 



SIGALA, in /Indent Geography, a town of India, on 

 this fide of the Ganges, according to Ptolemy, who afligns 

 it to the Mandrales. 



SIGANA, atown of ArachoCa. Ptolemy. 



SIGA RAM, in Geography, a town of Hindooftan, in 

 Golconda ; 12 miles N. of Rachore. 



SIGATHA, in /Incienl Geography, a town of Libya. 

 Strabo. 



SIGE, a town of Afia Minor, in the Troade. Steph. 

 Byz. 



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

 partment of the Aude, near which Charles Martel defeated 

 the Saracens ; 9 miles S. of Narbonne. 



SIGEBERT I., in .Sio^r^i/>/iy, king of Auftrafia, born 

 about the year 53J, was third fon of Ciiarles I., king of 

 the Franks. At the death of that fovereign, in 562, his 

 dominions were divided between his fons ; and Audrafia, 

 or the kingdom of Metz, fell to the lot of Sigebert. 

 His territories were invaded, foon after his acceffion, by 

 the Huns, whom he defeated and drove acrois the Elbe. 

 Daring his ablence, his brother Chilpcric made an irruption 

 into AuKrafia, and took feveral places ; but Sigebert re- 

 turning with a victorious army, took Soidons, Chilperic's 

 capital, and defeated Chilperic himfelf in battle. He was, 

 however, induced to grant him favourable terms, and to 

 rcllore the cotuiULJls made upon him. Sigebert's reputation 

 was now fo high, that he obtained for a wife the famous 

 Brunehaut, daughter of the Spani(h king of the Vifigotlis, 

 ■with a rich portion. The dominions of his brother Cari- 

 bcrt, at his death, were (hnred by the three fnrvivors ; but 

 it was not pofiible for fuch a divided empire to continue 

 long at peace. Chilperic had married Gnlfwintha, filter 

 of Brunehaut, who was afterwards murdered at the iniliga- 

 tion of his miftrefs, Fredegonde. Brunehaut invited Sige- 

 bert, in coiijunftion with iiis brother Gontran, king of 

 Burgundy, to revenge this crime, and they ovcr-raii a 



great part of his dominions, and forced him to purchafe 

 peace by tlie celTion of feveral places. The Avars, or 

 Huns, foon after made a fecond irruption into Auftrafia, 

 when Sigebert's troops, terrified at their favage appearance, 

 refufed to aft, and he was obliged to purchafe a peace, and 

 fupply them with provifions to return to their own country. 

 After thi», Sigebert afiembling a numerous army, after 

 making himfelf mafter of the greatefl part of Chilperic's 

 territories, invelted him in Tonrnay, and refufed to liftcn to 

 terms of accommodation. When the ruin of that prince 

 feenied to be inevitable, Fredegonde, hiring two adanins, 

 who pretending to have fome important fecret to commu- 

 nicate to Sigebert, thrult their daggers into his body, in 

 the midft of his army. This was in the year 57 j, after he 

 had reigned 14 years, leaving behind him the charafter of 

 the greatcft and bell of the fons of Ch)taire. 



Sigebert, Sigebertl.s, a monk ot Gemblours, in the 

 diocefe of Namur, in Brabant, who palled in his time for 

 a man of wit, univerfal learning, and a good poet. In the 

 younger part of his life he embraced the monallic ftate 

 in the abbey of Gemblours, under the abbot Olbertus, who 

 died in 1048. During his noviciate he was invited to 

 Metz, where he ftudied in the fchool of the monailery of 

 St. Vincent, and acquired great confidcration by his learn- 

 ing, in which he was fuperior to moll of tlie other writers 

 who flourithed at the fame period. He was acquainted 

 with the Greek and Hebrew languages, and in confequence 

 of the progress he had made in the latter, was much elteemed 

 by the Jews at Metz, where he refided a conliderablc time, 

 and from which he was with difficulty fuifL-red to depart, 

 in order to return to his former monailery. His celebrity- 

 accompanied him thither : he gained many fcholars, who 

 did honour to their inllruftor ; and he was chofen by the 

 clergy of Liege to manage their defence in a controverfy 

 which they had with the pope, and whicli he condufted 

 with great talent and moderation. He took fides in the 

 quarrel of Gregory VII., Urban II., and Pafcal II., with 

 the emperor Henry IV. ; and he wrote againtlthefe pontiffs 

 without the leaft ceremony. Sigebert is author of a Chronicle, 

 the bell edition of which was publiihed at Antwerp in i6o8, 

 in 4to. It is carelefsty written, and in a vulgar llyle ; but 

 contains curious and well authenticated fac^s. And in en- 

 deavonring to nfcertain to whom the fyllem of lolmifation 

 by the hexachords belongs, Sigebert in his Chronicle, under 

 the year 1028, as well as in his account of ecclefiallical 

 writers, fays, that " he had excelled all his predecelTors ; at 

 by his method children were taught to ling new melodies, 

 with more facility than by the voice of the mailer, or the ufe 

 of an inltrument : for by only alTixing fix letters, or fylla- 

 bles, to fix founds all that miific adinits of, regularly, and 

 dillinguilhing thefe lounds by the joints of the lingers of the 

 left hand, their dillaiices afctnding and defcending through 

 the whole diapafon, are clearly pielentcd both to the eye 

 and the ear." 



Now as Sigebert was nearly contemporary with Guide, 

 his teltimony in favour of the difcovericB attributed to him 

 have more weight than any proofs tiiat can be adduced from 

 fuch of his own writings as are generally known. The 

 Chronicle of Sigebert begins at 181, and ia continued la 

 1112; he died the year alter. 



But what entitles Sigeiiert to an article in our depart- 

 ment, befides his bearing tellimony to the inventions of 

 Giiido, and his mufical records in leveral other articles of 

 his Chronicle, is the information which he himfelf gives u» 

 in liiH life, tliat he had fet to miific the anthems .And relponfc* 

 of St. Guibert j that i», had tompofcd all llut was necef- 



