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species is characterized by the shortness of the body, which 
is rounded behind: the arms taper to a point, joined at the 
base by a membrane or web, and covered within with two 
rows of alternate suckers. When opened this animal is 
said to exhibit so brilliant a light as to illuminate a large 
room. 
2. Sepia officinalis.—Body without tail or appendage, and 
surrounded by a margin; it has two tentacula, or longer 
arms. This is found on our own coasts, and also in other 
oceans, and is frequently the prey of the whale tribe, and 
of plaise; its arms are frequently eaten by the conger-eel, 
and are reproduced; the bony scale on the back is that 
which is sold in the shops; and the black matter which it 
squirts out to darken the waters round it, and elude the pur¬ 
suit of its enemies, is sometimes used as ink. The body was 
eaten by the ancients, and it is even now used as food by the 
Italians. The body of this species is ovate, the margin cre- 
nate and interrupted at the bottom; eight of the arms are 
short and pointed; the two tentacula are four times as long 
as the others; they are rounded, and the tips are very broad, 
and furnished within with numerous suckers. 
3. Sepia unguiculata.—The body of this is without a tail 
or appendage; the arms are furnished with hooks, and it is 
found in the Pacific Ocean. The body is rounded behind ; 
the arms are furnished with hooks, which are retractile with¬ 
in their proper sheaths instead of suckers. 
4. Sepia hexapus.—The body of this is tailed, four or five- 
jointed; arms only six in number. This also is found in 
the Pacific Ocean. The body is about half a foot long, and 
the thickness of a finger; arms_furnished with very minute 
suckers, which stick fast to whatever it fixes on. 
5. Sepia media.—Body long, slender, cylindrical; the 
tail is finned, pointed, and carinate on each side; it has two 
long arms.—It inhabits the ocean, and in some respects it 
resembles the Sepia officinalis. The body ends in a point, 
and is furnished with a membrane on each side, commencing 
about the middle of the body. 
6. Sepia loligo, or the Calamary.—The body of this is 
subcylindrical, subulate, and furnished with a flatfish sharp- 
edged rhombic membrane at the tail on each side. This is 
found in divers parts of the ocean, and is from nine to twelve 
inches long. The body is of a reddish-brown, with two 
longer arms or tentacula; the eyes are of a fine blue; the 
cartilaginous plate or bone in the back is long, lance-shaped, 
and transparent; it has sometimes been placed as a species 
of the pennatula. 
7. Sepia sepiola.—The body of this species has two round¬ 
ed wings or processes behind.—It is found in the Mediter¬ 
ranean and European seas, and is very small. The body is 
short, rounded behind, with a round membrane or fin at the 
lower extremity ; it has two long arms. 
8. Sepia tunicata.—The body of this species is entirely 
enclosed in a black pellucid membrane, with two semicircular 
wings or processes behind.—This is an inhabitant of the 
Pacific Ocean. The body is very large, and is said sometimes 
to weigh one hundred and fifty pounds, and is convertible 
into palatable and pleasant food. 
SEPIACE, in Italian Music, signifies that the part it is 
joined to may be repeated or not, at pleasure. 
SE'PILIBLE, adj. [,sepio , Lat.] That may be buried. 
Unused. Bailey. 
SE'PIMENT, s. [sepimentim. Lat.] A hedge; a fence. 
Unused. Bailey.—-A farther testimony and sepiment to 
which, were the Samaritan, Chaldee, and Greek versions. 
Lively Oracles. 
SEPINO, a small town of Italy, in the north of the king¬ 
dom of Naples, in the province of Molise, with 3300 inha¬ 
bitants, and a bishop’s see, now united to that of Bojano. 
In the neighbourhood are found the ruins of the ancient 
Sepinus ; 17 milts north-by-west of Benevento. 
To SEPO'SE, v. a. [sepono, sepositus, Lat.] To set 
apart.—God seposed a seventh of our time for his exterior 
worship. Donne. 
SEPOSI'TION, s. [ sepono , Lat.] The act of setting 
apart; segregation.—We must contend with prayer, with 
actual dereliction and seposition of all our other affairs. Bp. 
Taylor. 
SEPOURY, or Sipry, a town and fortress of Hindostan, 
province of Agra, and district of Gohud. It was taken by 
the British in 1781, but they were shortly after compelled to 
retreat. It now belongs to the Mahratta chief Siudia; it is 
situated 18 miles south-west of Narwa. 
SE'POY, s. [sipah, Pers. an army, soldiers.] An Indian 
native who is a soldier in the infantry of the East-India 
Company. 
SEPRIO, a thriving village of Austrian Italy, on the river 
Olona; 20 miles north-west of Milan. 
SEPS, s. A kind of venomous eft. 
SEPSI, or Schepsi, a district of Transylvania, in 
the province of the Szeklers, now united to that of Harom- 
zek. 
SEPT, s. [septum, Lat.] A clan; a race; a family; a 
generation. A word used generally with regard or allusion 
to Ireland.—The English forces were ever too weak to sub¬ 
due so many warlike nations, or septs of the Irish as did 
possess this island. Davies .—The true and ancient Russians, 
a sept whom he had met with in one of the provinces of 
that vast empire, were white like the Danes. Boyle. 
SEPTA, in Antiquity, were inclosures, or rails made of 
boards, through which persons went in to give their votes in 
the assemblies of the Romans. 
SEPTALIUS, or Settala (Louis), an Italian physician 
of celebrity, was born at Milan, in February, 1552. He 
evinced from his early childhood, a strong inclination to the 
pursuits of literature, and at the age of sixteen defended some 
theses on the subject of natural philosophy with an acuteness 
of reasoning far above his years, and which excited the sur¬ 
prise of the audience, among whom was the archbishop of 
Milan. It was now supposed that he would follow the steps 
of his ancestors, both maternal and paternal, who had been 
much distinguished at the bar; but his inclination led him 
to the medical profession, and he accordingly repaired to 
Pavia, for the purpose of commencing the study of it. Here 
he proceeded with the same success, and obtained the degree 
of doctor in his 21st year, and was even appointed to a 
chair in this celebrated university in his 23d year. "In his 
professorial capacity, though so young, he gave so many 
demonstrations of his talents and acquirements, that he soon 
became known to the most distinguished men of his time. 
Nevertheless, at the end of four years from the time of his 
appointment, he determined to relinquish the professorial 
dignity, for the purpose of exercising his medical skill in his 
native city. Though Philip III., king of Spain, selected him 
for his historiographer, the elector of Bavaria invited him 
to a professorship in the university of Ingoldstadt; the grand 
duke of Pisa, to a chair at that place; the city of Bologna 
to a similar appointment in their schools; and the senate of 
Venice by still more considerable offers both of honour and 
reward laboured assiduously to bring him to the university 
of Padua. He declined all these opportunities of elevation, 
content with the esteem and affection of his fellow-citizens. 
The only honour which he accepted was the appointment 
of chief physician to the state of Milan, which Philip IV. 
conferred upon him in 1627, as a reward for his virtues and 
talents. In the year 1628, the plague visited Milan. Sep- 
talius gave all the aid in his power to his fellow-citizens, and 
in the midst of his labours to alleviate the distresses oc¬ 
casioned by this fatal calamity, he was himself seized with 
the disease. He had scarcely recovered from this attack, 
when he was suddenly surprised by a fit of apoplexy, which 
left him speechless, and paralytic on one side. From this, 
however, he in a great measure recovered, and lived several 
years afterwards, but in a state of feebleness and imperfect 
health. He died in September 1633, in consequence of an 
attack of dysentery, at the age of 81. Septalius was a man 
of acute powers and solid judgment, and was reputed 
extremely successful in his practice. He was warmly at¬ 
tached to the doctrines of Hippocrates, whose works he never 
ceased to study. He was author of the iollowing works: 
“ In Librum Hippocratis Coi, de Aeribus, Aquis, et Locis, 
Comraentarii 
