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SEQUESTER. SERAPION.; f
deserving of much credit, as has been already re- Several names appear in this piece which are to
marked [Vol. II. p. 742,a.]; and on this particular be found in no other ancient writer. Some of these
occasion the authorities which Livy followed appear have arisen from misapprehension on the part of the
to have indulged in more than their usual mendacity. compiler himself, others are palpable corruptions,
A memorial of his victory was preserved in the while a few are doubtless derived from sources to
Capitol, under the name of the Marcian shield, which we have no access. The general merits of
containing a likeness of the Carthaginian general Sequester have been very fairly estimated by HesHasdrubal. But notwithstanding his services selius, "Scriptor est, nisi multis in locis interpohe gave great offence at Rome, by assuming the latus sit incredibilem in modum, non magni judicii
title of propraetor in his despatch to the senate magnaeve facultatis, nec tamen scit nihil. Sed non
announcing his victory. (Liv. xxv. 37-39, xxvi. est inutilis."
2; Plin. H. N. xxxv. 3. s. 4; Frontin. Strat. ii. The Editio Princeps was printed at Rome by
6. 2, ii. 10. ~ 2; Val. Max. i. 6. ~ 2, ii. 7. ~ 15, Joannes de Besicken, 4to. 1505. The first edition,
viii. 15. ~ I 1; Appian, Hisp. 17, where he is con- in which the text appeared in tolerable purity, was
founded with Marcellus.) that of Hesselius, 8vo. Rotterod. 1711; the most
On the arrival of P. Scipio in Spain in B. c. 210, recent, and the best, is that of Oberlinus, 8vo.
Marcius was treated by the new general with great Argent. 1778, which contains a large body of very
distinction. After the capture of New Carthage, learned and useful notes. [W. R.]
Scipio sent him with a third of the army to lay SERAMBUS (iVpaegos), an Aeginetan statuary
siege to the important town of Castulo, which after- of unknown date, made the bronze statue of the
wards surrendered, when Scipio advanced against it Olympic victor Agiadas. (Paus. vi. 10. ~ 2.) [P. S. ]
in person. Marcius was next despatched against SERA'PIA. [FELIX, LAELIUS.]
Astapa, which he laid in ruins. During the dan- SERA'PIO, a surname of P. Cornelius Scipic
gerous illness of Scipio in B. c. 206, the command Nasica, consul B. c. 138. [SciPro, No. 24.]
of the troops devolved upon Marcius. In the same SERA'PION (sEpa7rwv) or SARA'PION, liteyear he marched against Gades with a land force, rary. 1. Of Antioch, a writer on Geography,
while Laelius attacked the town by sea; but it is whom Pliny mentions among his chief authorities.
unnecessary to enter further into a detail of his (Elench. Lib. ii. iv. v.) IHe seems to be the same
exploits. Hie and the propraetor M. Junius Si- as the Serapion who is twice mentioned by Cicero
lanus were the two chief officers of Scipio through- as very unintelligible, and as a severe critic of
out the whole of the war; and Marcius in par- Eratosthenes. (Ad Ati. ii. 4, 6.)
ticular gained so much of the approbation of his 2. Aelius Serapion, of Alexandria, a distingeneral, that the latter said that Marcius wanted guished sophist and rhetorician, in the time of
nothing to make him equal to the most celebrated Hadrian. (Suid. s. v.) The following works of
commanders except "nobilitas ac justi honores." his are enumerated by Suidas: lepI TW-v E'v raos
(Liv. xxviii. 19, 22, 34-36, 42, xxxii. 2; Polyb. CEX'eTr.Ls. dapTavoegvoWv,'AKpoea'eeWv gltea ~',
xi. 23; Appian, Iiisp. 26, 31-34.) HIaryvpKos rr''Aapiav4i mr lartEreZ, BoveUvTlKo3z
Q. SEPTL'TIUS, a Roman eques oppressed by'AhE~,vSpevoLv, EL 8LKalois IlAdwvv VOu7-Wpov chriVerres. (Cic. Verr. iii. 14.) wre~E* T-rs 7roAUTrelaS, Td'XVq (17TOPLKC, and many
SEPU'LLIUS BASSUS. [BAssUs.] other works. There is also a little work on astroSEPUILLIUS MACER. [MACER.] logy ascribed to him. (Lamr;bec. vii. p. 256.) The
SEQUESTER, VI'BIUS, is the name attached Greek Anthology contains an epigram of his.
to a glossary which professes to give an account of (Brunck. Anal. vol. ii. p. 291; Jacobs, Anth. Graec.
the geographical names contained in the Roman vol. iii. p. a, vol. xiii. p. 951.)
poets. Prefixed is an introductory letter, addressed 3. A younger Serapion, of Alexandria, is menby Vibius to his son Virgilianus, in which the tioned by Porphyry as a pupil of Plotinus. (Vit.
nature and object of the works are briefly explained. Plot. 7.)
The tract is divided into seven sections: - 1. Fla- 4. A philosopher of Hierapolis (Steph. Byz. s. v.
mina. 2. Fontes. 3. Lacus. 4. Nemora. 5. Pa-'IseparoeAs), probably the same as the following.
budes. 6. Montes. 7. Gentes. To which in some 5. A philosopher who flourished at Rome under
MSS. an eighth is added, containing a list of the the early emperors, and who is censured for his
seven wonders of the world. In each division the false eloquence by Seneca. (Epist. 40; comp.
objects are arranged alphabetically, and the de- Muret. Adv.)
scriptions are extremely short, indicating, for the 6. A philosopher of a later period, the friend
most part, merely the country in which the river, of Isidore, of whom Suidas (s. v.) gives a long euspring, lake, grove, swamp, hill, or nation, is to logistic notice, extracted from the Life of Isidore
be found, and even when some farther notices are by Damnascius, but containing scarcely any facts of
annexed they are expressed in very succinct terms. general interest. His library is said to have conConcerning thie author personally we know ab- sisted of three volumes, one of which was the
solutely nothing, nor are we able to determine, even Orphic poems.
approximately, the epoch to which he belongs. We 7. Of Ascalon, wrote on the interpretation of
cannot state positively that he refers to writers dreams. (Fulgent. Myth. i. 13; Tertullian. de
later than Lucan and Statius; but he appears to Aninza, 46.)
have been indebted to scholiasts for any little in- 8. There was at least one poat of this name,
formation which he records, and from more than perhaps more. A Serapion of Athens, who, from
one passage it would seem highly probable that he the context, was evidently an epic poet, is introcopied Servius (e. g. Montes s. v. Catillus). If duced by Plutarch as a speaker in his dialogue on
this be true he must be referred to some period not the reason of the Pythia's no longer giving oracles
earlier than the middle of the fifth century; but in verse (p. 396). Another of the interlocutors
the evidence is after all so meagre, that we cannot compares Serapion's poems to those of Homer a:d
venture to speak with certainty. Hesiod, for their force, and grace, and the style of
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