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766 SEGIMERUJS. SEJANUS.
Christiana" of G. Fabricius, fol. Basil. 1564; in leader's remains. (Tac. Ann. i. 71; Strab. vii. p
the Bibliotheca Patrum Max. fol. Lugd. 1677, vol. 293; Dion Cass. lvi. 19.) [W. B. D.]
vi. p. 458; in the Corpus Po'tarumn Lat. of Mat- SEGIMUNDUS, the son of Segestes, was aptaire, vol. ii. p. 1060; and in the fifth volume of pointed priest of an altar in the neighbourhood of
the Collectio Pisaurensis. [W. R.] Cologne, probably the altar raised to Augustus
SEGESTA (Esy'a'77r). The Trojan Phoeno- Caesar. He afterwards rejoined his tribe, the Chedamas (others call him Hippotes, Ippoteus or Ip- ruscans. In A. D. 14 Sigimundus was one of the
sostratus) had three daughters. WV'hen he was envoys whom Segestes sent to Germanicus, when
to be compelled by Laomedon to expose one of the Cheruscans were besieging him in his own
them to the marine monster which was ravaging house. Germanicus pardoned the previous defection
the country, he called the people together and in- of Sigimundus, and allowed him to share his father's
duced them to compel Laomedon, whose guilt had exile in Narbonne. [SEGESTES.] (Tac. Ann. i.
brought the monster into the country, to expose 57, 58; Strab. vii. p. 291.) [W. B. D.]
his own daughter Hesione. Laomedon then took SEGONAX, one of the kings of Cantium in
vengeance by causing some sailors to convey the Britain, who joined Cassivellaunus to oppose Caesar.
three daughters of Phoenodamas to a desert part (Caes. B. G. v. 22.)
of the coast of Sicily (some say Libya). One of SEGU'LIUS, an artist in gold (aurtifex, sic),
these maidens was Segesta or Egesta, with whom whose name is found in a Latin inscription (Gruter,
the river god Crimissus, in the shape of a bear or p. dcxxxix. 1), in which his full name is D. Segulius
a dog, begot Aegestus, Egestus or Acestes, by jlexsa (sic). The last word, in this case, as in
whom Egesta in Sicily was built. (Tzetz. ad Ly- the names of Aulus and Quintus Ale a [QUINTC S1],
Coph. 471, 953; Serv. ad Aen. i. 550, v. 30; is commonly supposed to be an abbreviation of the
Dionys. i. 52.) [L. S.] genitive Alexcandri or of Alexas; but Raoul-RoSEGESTES, a Cheruscan chieftain, the oppo- chette thinks that it is a distinct cognomen. (Lettre
nent of Arminius. He was alternately the con- a 3I. Schorn, pp. 125, 401, 2d ed.) [P. S.]
queror and the captive of his great rival. Private SEGU'LIUS LA'BEO, a friend of Octavianus,
injuries embittered their political feud, for Arminius B. C. 43, is called by Cicero, "' homo nequissimus."
carried off and forcibly married the daughter of (Cic. ad Famr. xi. 20, 21.)
Segestes. In A. D. 9 Segestes warned Quintilius SEJA'NUS, AE'LIUS. Dion Cassius sass
Varus of the conspiracy of Arminius, Sigimer that his praenomen was Lucius. Tacitus (Ann.
and other Cheruscan chiefs against him, and coun- iv. 1, &c.) is our chief authority for the history of
selled him to arrest them ere the revolt broke out. this infamous instrument of Tiberius. Sejanus was
His warning was disregarded, and Varus perished. born at Vulsinii, in Etruria: he was the son of
IIl A. D. 14 Segestes was forced by his tribesmen Seius Strabo, a Roman eques, who was commander
into a war with Rome; but he still corresponded of the praetorian troops at the close of the reign of
with the enemy, and sent to Germanicus informa- Augustus and the commencement of that of Tition of the plans and movements of the Cheruscans. berius. Velleius Paterculus (ii. 127) says that lie
His treachery was probably discovered, since the was of illustrious descent on the maternal side;
Cheruscans attacked Segestes in his own house, and Lipsius conjectures that his mother was of the
and he was rescued with difficulty by a detachment Junia Gens, because Junius Blaesus, proconsul of
sent by Germanicus. Segestes was accompanied Africa, was the maternal uncle of Sejanus (Tacit.
to the Roman camp by his children, his slaves, and Ann. iii. 72). Rumour accused him of selling
clients. He extenuated his part in the war by himself, when a young man, to the lust of Apicius,
pleading his services to Augustus, who had granted a rich debauchee (Dion Cass. lvii. 19). Sejanus
him the Roman franchise, and he offered to nego- ultimately gained such influence over Tiberius,
tiate peace with the insurgent Germans. Germa- that this suspicious man, who was close and renicus assigned Segestes a secure dwelling-place in served to all mankind, opened his bosom to SejaNarbonne, and pardoned his son Sigimundus, who nus, and made him his confidant. Sejanus had a
had revolted. The daughter of Segestes, although body capable of enduring fatigue, and a mind
clinging rather to the cause of her husband, Armi- capable of the boldest designs: he concealed his
nius, than to her father's, was sent with her own thoughts, and was a calumniator of others;
infant son to Ravenna. (Tac. Ann. i. 55 —59; he could fawn and crouch to power, though he was
Vell. Pat. ii. 118; Flor. iv. 12.) [W. B. D.] insolent to those below him; to the world he put
SEGE'TIA, a Roman divinity, who, together on the appearance of moderation, but his greediwith Setia or Seja and Semonia, was invoked by ness had no bounds; and to accomplish his purthe early Italians at seed time, for Segetia, like poses he could be magnificent and profuse, as well
the two other names, is connected with sero and as laborious and vigilant. Such was the character
segcs. (Plin. H. 1V. xviii. 2. 2; Macrob. Sat. i. of the man who for many years governed Tiberius.
16; August. De Civ. Dci, iv. 8; comp. Tertull. De In the year in which Augustus died, A. D. 14,
Spect. 8.) [L. S.] Sejanus was made the colleague of his father in
SEGIME'RUS (" the Conqueror"), brother of the command of the Praetorian bands, and was
Segestes, was one of the leaders of the Cheruscans in sent by Tiberius to accompany his son Drusus, in
the revolt of Lower Germany, in A. D. 9. He was his visit to the mutinous legions in Pannonia
present with Arminius in the camp of Varus, and (Tacit. Ann. i. 24). Upon his father being sent as
lured him on to his defeat and death [ARMINIUS]. governor to Egypt, Sejanus had the sole command
In A. D. 15 Segimerus surrendered himself and his of the Praetorian cohorts. When Agrippina, the
son Sesithaces to Stertinius, a lieutenant of Ger- wife of Germanicus, by her heroic resolution, had
manicus. He was banished to Cologne. His son's prevented the bridge over the Rhine from being
pardon was obtained with more difficulty, since destroyed, and thus secured to the Roman legions
Sesithaces was accused by the surt ivors of Varus's their retreat from the east bank of the river, the
legions of having treated with contumely their suspicious temper of Tiberius, who was afraid of a