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country. He vifited Rome in 1578, where he was honour- 

 ably received by pope Gregory XIII., by whom lie was 

 engaged to compoie an eccleliallical hillory. Of this, 

 however, he executed ro more than fome learned illuttra- 

 tions of Sulpicius Severas ; for he died at Modeaa in the 

 year 1584. He was a moft able and fuccefsful elucidator 

 of ancient liiitory and antiquities. He was indefatigable 

 in fearching to the bottom all fnbjefts which he undertook 

 to examine, fo that in many he left little to be added by 

 later enquirers, and his works are all carefully compofed in 

 a pure, and even an elegant, Latin ftyle. Befides the 

 pieces already mentioned, he publiflied many valuable traAs 

 on the Roman laws and cuftomp, alfo on the republics of 

 the Hebrews, Athenians, and Lacedsemonians. He com- 

 pofed twenty books of a hiftory relating to the wellern 

 empire, from the time of Dioclelian to its final deltruftion, 

 and he performed the more arduous tafli of framing irom 

 the rude and obfcure chronicles of the times, a hiftory of 

 the kingdom of Italy, from the arrival of the Lombards to 

 the year 1 286. Sigonio was involved in feveral controver- 

 fies, in one of which he is fuppofed to have difgraced Jiim- 

 felf. About twelve months before he died, an intimate 

 friend of his edited a pretended treatife of Cicero, entitled 

 *' Confolatie." Its authenticity was immediately impugned 

 by critics, and there is now no doubt that it was not 

 genuine ; but Sigonio wrote fo warmly in defence of it, that 

 he is generally fuppofed to be the author. The works of 

 this learned man were publilhed coUeftively in 1732-3, by 

 Argelati, at Milan, in fix vols. fol. with his Life, by Mu- 

 ratori, prefixed. 



SIGORUM, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Afia, 

 in Mefopotamia, in the vicinity of the town of Nifibis, ac- 

 cording to Sozomen. 



SIGOULES, Le, in Geography, a town of France, in 

 the department of the Dordogne ; 7 miles S. of Bergerac. 



SIGRI, a town on the N.W. part of the ifland of 

 Metelin, in the Grecian Archipelago. 



SIGRIANA, in Ancient Geography, a country of Afia, 

 in Media, according to Strabo. 



SIGRIANI, mountains of Afia Minor, on the coalt 

 of the Pro])ontide. 



SIGRIUM, a promontory of the iile of Letbos, in the 

 moft wefterly part of the ifland. 



•SIGRUM, a port of the ifie of Tenedos, in which was 

 a ftatue of Diana. 



SIGTUNA, in Geography, a town of Sweden, in the 

 province of Upland, fituated on a creek of the Malar lake, 

 anciently one of the chief cities of the kingdom. It is 

 faid to derive its name from the celebrated Odin, whofe 

 furname was Sigge : he came into the north before the 

 Chriftian era, and had his refidence, his temple, and his 

 court of juitice ; others fay the town was built by Odin. 

 However that be, Sigtuna has undergone many changes ; 

 in the year ioo8, it was plundered and burnt by Olof the 

 Pious, king of N )rway ; in 1 188, it was deitroyed by the 

 Carelians, Eilonians, and Ruffians. It recovered from thefe 

 calamities, and flouriflud till the vaft increafe of Stockholm 

 gave it a blow, which it is not likely to recover ; 10 miles 

 N. of Stockholm. 



SIGUA, in Ancient Geography, a town of Afia, in the 

 Greater Armenia. Ptolemy. 



SIGUENCA, in Geography, a city of Spain, in Old 

 Caitile, fituated on the edge of a mountain, near the fource 

 of the river Henares ; the fee of a bifliop, fuffragan of 

 Toledo, with an univerfity, founded in tiie year 1441, by 

 cardinal Ximenes. It contains three churches, three con- 

 Tents, two bofpitals, a llrong caitle, an arfenal, and be- 



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tween 700 and 800 houfes. This town was anciently called 

 Segontia. A battle was fought here between Pompey and 

 Sertorius ; and in the beginning of the feventh century, 

 the Goths were defeated here by the Romans ; 56 milei 

 N.E. of Madrid. N. lat. 40^ 58'. W. long. 2^ 57'. 



SIGUETTE, in the Manege, is a cavefion of iron, 

 with teeth or notches, that is, a femicircle of hollow and 

 vaulted iron, with teeth like a faw, confifting of two or 

 three pieces joined with hinges, and mounted with a head- 

 (lall and two ropes, as if they were the caveflbns that 

 in former times were wont to be put upon the nofe of 

 a fiery ftiff-headed horfe, in order to keep him in fub- 

 jcftion. 



There is a fort of figuette, that is, a round iron all of one 

 piece, fewed under the nofe-band of the bridle, that it may 

 not be in view. This figuette we employ with a martingale, 

 when a horfe beats upon the hand. 



SIHASTRIA, in Geography, a town of Moldavia ; 34 

 miles \V. of Suczava. 



SIHAUL, a town on the W. coaft of Sumatra. N. 

 lat. o^ 23'. E. long. 119- 45'. 



SI-HIAM, a town of China, of the third rank, in 

 Chen-fi ; 37 miles E.S.E. of Han-tchong. 



SI-HO, a town of China, of the third rank, in Chen-fi ; 

 42 miles W. of Oei. 



SI-HOA, a town of China, of the third rank, in Ho-nan; 

 32 miles E.S.E. of Hiu. 



SIHON, or GiHON, or Amu. See Jihon and Amu. 



SiHON, or Sharokie, a name given to the river Sirr, in 

 its courfe. 



SIHOR, a town of Hindooftan, in Guzerat ; 25 miles 

 W. of Gogo. 



SIHUTLA, a town of Mexico, in the province of 

 Mechoacan ; 25 miles W. of Zacatula. N. lat. 18° 45'. 

 W. long. 103° 26'. 



SIKAJOCKI, a town of Sweden, in Eaft Bothnia; 

 8 miles N. of Brahefbd. 



SIKE, in Rural Economy, a term provincially applied to 

 a little riil, a water-furrow, and a gutter. 



SIKEVI, in Geography, a tovim of Turkifti Circalfia, 

 on the coall of the Black fea ; 30 miles S.E. of Anapa. 



SIKFORD, a town of Sweden, in Welt Bothnia; 18 

 miles N.W. of Pitea. 



SIKHS, or Seiks, an appellation formed of the Sanfcrit 

 term Sikh, or Sicflja, denoting a difciple or devoted follower, 

 and in the Panjabi corrupted into Sikh, which is applicable 

 to any perfon that follows a particular teacher ; and hence 

 ufed to denominate, in its primary ufe, a religious fcft, 

 which advanced, by fucceffive gradations, from the humble 

 condition of religionifts, to the rank of one of the moft 

 powerful ftates in Hindooftan. The founder of this feft 

 was Nanac Shah, a native of a fmall village called Talwandi, 

 in the ditfrift of Bhatti, in the province of Lahore, where 

 he was born A.D. 1469. It is now become a town, and 

 denominated Rayapour, and is fituated on the banks of the 

 Beyah or Hyphafis. Nanac's father, whofe name was Calu, 

 and who belonged to the Cfhatriya caft and Vtidi tribe of 

 Hindoos, wifhed to bring him up to trade, but Nanac him- 

 felf was from his childhood inclined to devotion, and mani- 

 felted an indifference to all worldly concerns. This difpoC- 

 tion was cherifhed by his intercourfe with the Fakirs, among 

 whom and the poor he diftributed a great part of his fub- 

 ftance. It is needlefs to recite his trances and vifions, and 

 converfe with the prophet Ehas, and the aufterities which he 

 praftifed at the commencement and in the progrefs of his 

 rehgious career. Nor can we accompany him in his travels 

 which he undertook with a view of reforming the worfliip of 



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