Sennacherib (se-nak'e-rib)

[A yr. Sin - ahe Zerba, Sin (the moon-god) increase the brothers.] King of As syria 705-681 в. с., son and succe or army met the forces of the coalition at Eltekeh (A yrian Altaku ). The battle seems to have been indecisive. The siege of Jerusalem had to be given up on account of a pestilence which broke out in the A yrian army. Like Sargon, Sennacherib indulged in building, and endeavored to promote the welfare of the country by introducing improvements. His reign was of special importance for the his tory of the city of Nineveh, which, after having long been neglected, was again raised by him to the dignity of a capital, and restored to unprecedented splendor and glory. While praying in a temple he was was murdered by two of his sons, who fled to Armenia (Urartu). Sennar, or Sennaar, or Senaar (se-när'). 1. A region in eastern Africa. It extends between the White Nile and the Rahad (a tributary of the Blue Nile) face, generally level, is mountainous in the southeast. Before the Mahdist revolt of 1881 it was a province of the Egyptian Sudan. The inhabitants are Arabs, Funji (Negro), southward from Khartum lat. 11° N. The etc. 2. The chief town of the district of Sennaar, situated on the Blue Nile. Sennheim (zen him), F. Cernay (ser-na'). A town in Upper Alsace, Alsace-Lorraine, situated on the Thur 9 miles northwest of Mül hausen. Near it is the Ochsenfeld, where Cæsar is said to have defeated Ariovistus 58 B. C. Population (1890), 4,375. Sénonais (sā-nō-nā'). A former division of the ancient Champagne, in France. Capital, Sens. Senones (sen'ō-nēz). 1. In ancient history, a people of the Cisalpine Gauls, dwelling between the Adriatic and the A pennines, about lat. 430 30′-44° N. They were conquered by the Romans about 283 B. c. and expelled from their lands.-2. In ancient history, a tribe in central Gaul, situated northwest of the Ædui, and having Aged in cum (Sens) as their capital. They revolted against Cæsar 54-52 в. с. Senones (sė-non'). A town in the department of Vosges, es, eastern France, rance, 41 miles southeast of Nancy. Population (1891), commune, 4,027. Senova (sā-nō'vä). A place south of the Balkans, in the Valley of Roses, Eastern Rumelia, where the Ru ians under Skobeleff defeated the Turks, Jan. 9, 1878. Sens (sons). A city in the department of Yonne, France, situated on the Yonne 61 miles south east of Paris: the ancient Aged in cum. The Cathedral of St. Étienne is a beautiful early-Pointed structure, rebuilt in the 12th century, and taken as a model by the architect of Canterbury cathedral. There are remains of Roman walls. The town was the capital of the ancient Senones, and became an important Roman city. Its archbishop was "primate of Gaul and Germany." It was the meeting-place of the church council which con Septennial Act supposed to represent Sardis and Lydia; others with Separda in the southwest of Media, mentioned in Sargon's inscriptions; still others with Sepurd, a mountain south. west of Erzerum. The Syriac translation of the Peshita and Jewish interpreters render it by Spain, and in medieval and modern Jewish writings the name always designates Spain. Sephardim (se-fär dim). [Heb.] Spanish-Portuguese Jews, as distinguished from Ashkenazim, or German-Polish Jews. See Ashkenazim . Sephardo (se-fär'dō), Salomo. In George Eliot's "Spanish Gipsy," a Jewish astrologer who perceives clearly the scientific limits to astrological prediction. Sepharvaim (sef-är-vā'im). In the A yrian inscriptions, Sippara, a city in Me so pot am i a, on the left bank of the Euphrates. It was divided by the "Royal Canal" or the "Canal of Agade," one part being originally called Sippar, the other Agade; but the name of Agade, it seems, was lost in the lapse of time, and both cities became one. In the cuneiform inscriptions the two portions of the city are distinguished as "Sippar cult of these divinities. The temple of Shamash, the sungod, called E-babbara, was also consecrated to the worship of Moloch, who was the sun-god in his destructive This agrees with 2 Ki. xvii. 31, according to which the colonists from Sepharvaim settled in Samaria "burned their sons with fire to A dram me lech and An am me lech." Sepharvaim is now represented by the ruins of Abuhabba, where, in 1881, Hormuzd Ra am discovered the temple of the sun-god. Sephestia (se-fes'tiä). In Greene's novel "Menaphon," the banished daughter of King Damocles, beloved by the shepherd Menaphon. While disguised as the shepherde Samela, she is also the object of the pa ion of her father, her husband Maximus, and her son Pleusidippus. Her song to her child "Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee: When thou art old, there 's grief enough for thee "- is well known. Sephiroth (sef'i-roth). Heb., from saphar, write, count.] In the Kabbala, the ten attributes or intelligences forming the Adam Kadmon (first man) and emanating from the EnSoph or Infinite: compared to rays of light, and identified with Scripture names of God. Sepoy Mutiny. See Indian Mutiny . Sepp (sep), Johan pp (sep), Johann Nepomuk. Born at Tölz, Bavaria, Aug. 7, 1816. A German Roman Cath olic theologian and historian, profe or of history at Munich 1846-47 and 1850-67. His works include "Leben Jesu" ("Life of Jesus," 1842-46), "Das Heidentum und de en Bedeutung für das Christen tum" (1853), etc. Sepphoris (sef'ō-ris). [In the Talmud, Zippori .] The modern village Sefuriyeh, situated 14 miles distant from Nazareth. Herod Antipa made it the demned Abelard. It favored the League and resisted Henry IV. until 1594. It was besieged in 1814, and was held by the Germans in 1870–71. Population (1891), 14,006. Sense and Sensibility. A novel by Jane Austen, written during 1797-98 and published bishop of Palest in a Secund a sen 339 (under Const an in 1811. Sent (sent), or Senta (sen'tä). An Egyptian king. See the extract. It is even po ible to go back for another 500 years, when we come at last to the very earliest extant inscription in the world. This venerable record is a tablet now in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, which was erected by Sent, a king of the second dynasty, to the memory of Shera, who appears to have been his grandson. According to the chronological scheme of M. Mariette, King Sent must have lived about the year 4700 B. C. But, as will presently be shown, this very inscription, the oldest written record in existence, affords conclusive proof that even at that distant date of some 60 or 70 centuries, the hieroglyphic writing was already an extremely ancient graphic system, with long ages of previous development stretching out behind it into a distant past of almost inconceiva ble remotene .