A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

SETHON. SEVERINA. 797
which P. Sestius Capitolinus Vaticanus, consul in of the Assyrians at Pelusium is evidently olly
B. c. 452, is described as P. F. VIBm. N. I another version of the miraculous destruction of
The annexed coins refer apparently to this | the Assyrians by the angel of the Lord, when they
L. Sestius, as they were struck by a person of the had advanced against Jerusalem in the reign of
same name who was the proquaestor of Brutus Hezekiah (2 Kings, xviii. xix. and particularly xix.
The obverse of the first represents a woman's head 35; 2 Chronicles, xxxii.; Isaiah, xxxvi. xxxvii).
with L. SESTI PRO Q., and the reverse a tripod According to the Jewish records, this event hapwith a secespita on one side, and a simpuvium on pened in B. C. 711.
the other, and the legend Q. CA.EPIO BRVTVS PRO Herodotus speaks as if Sethon were king of all
cos. The obverse of the second is nearly the same Egypt at this time; but we have shown in the
as the reverse of the first: the reverse contains article SABACON, that Upper Egypt at least was
a seat with a spear, in allusion to his being governed by the Ethiopian Taracus or Tirhakah,
quaestor, and the legend L. SESTI PRO q. (Eckhel, who, as we learn from Isaiah, was ready to march
vol. v. p. 312.) against Sennacherib. The name of Sethon does
not occur in Manetho, and it is probable that he
only reigned over a part of Lower Egypt.,-~ )CA - ELSEVE'RA, JULIA AQUI'LIA. [AQUILIA.]
OflR((IN)P t h % ~, SEVE'RA, MARCIA, T. F., a Roman artist
in gold and precious stones (Auraria et lagnyaritaria), who lived in the Via Sacra (Doni, p. 319,
No. 13; Muratori, Thes. vol. ii. p. cmlxiv. No. 1;
Orelli, Inscr. Lat. Sel. No. 4148). Her name is
of some interest, on account of the small number of
women who appear in the lists of ancient artists.
(R. Rochette, Lettre a M. Schorn, p. 401, 2d
n ~o 1 ed.) [P. S.]
SEVERIA'NUS, son of the emperor Flavius
Valerius Severus, was put to death by Licinius
A. D. 313. (Auct. de LI/ort. Persec. 50.) [W. R.]
COINS OF L. SESTIUS. SEVERIA'NUS, JU'LIUS, a rhetorician who
flourished under Hadrian, the author of a treatise
7. P. SESTIUS P. F., to whom one of Cicero's Syntornata s. Praecepta Arlis Rhetoricae, which
letters (ad Farn. v. 17) is addressed, was a dif- will be found in the " Antiqui Rhetores Latini" of
ferent person from P. Sestius L. F. [No. 5.] It F. Pithou 4to. Paris, 1599, p. 302-312), and of
appears from this letter, which was probably Capperonerius (4to. Argent. 1746). This piece
written in B.C. 53, that P. Sestius P. F. had been was published at Cologne in 1569 by Sextus
condemned on account of some offence. Pompa, as Auli Cornelii Celsi de Arte dicendi Li8. L. SESTIUS PANSA. [PANSA.] bellus, a title retained in the edition of Heumann,
9. T. SESTIUS GALLUS, on whose estate P. contained in the first volume of his Poecile (8vo.
Clodius was killed by Milo, in B. c. 52. (Cic. pro Hal. 1722, lib. iii. p. 378), and in that printed at
llil. 31.) Lunaeberg (12mo. 1745). There seems to be no
SETHON (e0dwv), a priest of Hephaestus, is doubt, however, that in the best MSS. the work is
said by Herodotus to have made himself master of ascribed to Severianus, and their testimony seems
Egypt after the expulsion of Sabacon, king of the to be confirmed by Sidonius Apollinaris (Ep. ix.
Ethiopians, and to have been succeeded by the 11, 15, Carme. ix. 312). Funccius conjectures that
Dodecarchia, or government of the twelve chiefs, the real name of the writer may have been Julius
which ended in the sole sovereignty of Psammiti- Celsus Severianus, who in this manner became conchus. Herodotus further relates that in his reign founded with A42lus Cornelius Celsus. (Flnccius,
Sanacharibus, king of the Arabians and Assyrians, de Veget. L. L. senect. cap. v. ~ 2.) [WV. R..
advanced against Egypt, at which Sethon was in SEVERIAINUS VERUS, an artist in silver
great alarm, as he had insulted the warrior class, (Argentarius), mentioned in an inscription found in
and deprived them of their lands, and they now Dauphin4. (Gruter, p. dcxxxix. 6; R. Rochette,
refused to follow him to the war. In his perplexity Lettre a M. Schiorn, p. 401, 2d ed.) [P.S.]
he shut himself up in the temple of Hephaestus, SEVERI'NA, U'LPIA, the wife of the emwhere the god comforted him by a vision. Rely- peror Aurelian, well known from medals, and fiom
ing, therefore, on the assistance of the god, he collected an army of retail-dealers and artizans, and
marched out boldly to Pelusium to meet the,I4B 3"i S
enemy. The god did not forget his promised aid; 0/A "R / t
for while the two armies were encamped there, o -
the-field-mice in the night gnawed to pieces the ~ Pl
bow-strings, the quivers, and the shield-handles of DO
the Assyrians, who fled on the following day with
great loss. The recollection of this miracle was'o.
perpetuated by a statue of the king in the temple COIN OF SEVERINA.
of Hephaestus, holding a mouse in his hand, and
saying, " Let every one look at me and be pious" from the English version, comes from the Sep(Herod. ii. 141). This Sanacharibus is the Sen- tuagint (,EvvaXqpfGl). The Hebrew is Sancheq-ib
nacherib * of the Scriptures, and the destruction In Josephus it is _eeVaXjpLGo., in
* Sennacherib, which is the form familiar to us Herodotus 7ZavaXecpmor.