Sepharad ad (sef'a-rad)

A region where de is is ported Israeli tes lived. Its geographical location Vulgate by Bosphorus, Some identify it with Spard which uncertain. The Septuagint renders it by Ephratha, the occurs in the Persian cuneiform inscriptions, and which modern distant from Nazareth. Herod Antipas made it the capital of Galilee. Its Roman name was Diocæsarea. Under Rabbi Jehuda the Prince (ha Nasi) it became the seat of the Sanhedrim; later it was the residence of a bishop of Palest in a Secund a. In 339 (under Const an tine) it was destroyed in consequence of a revolt of the Jews. During the Crusades, the tradition that Sepphoris was the home of Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Virgin Mary, was generally accepted, and the Crusaders erected a church on the traditional site of their dwelling. The modern Sefuriyeh numbers about 600 inhabitants. September (sep-tem'ber). [L. September , sc. mens is, the 'seventh month' of the Roman year, which began with March.] The ninth month of the year, containing thirty days. September, Ma acres of. A series of murders perpetrated by the extreme revolutionists at Paris, Sept. 2-6, 1792, the victims being royalists and constitutionalists confined in prison. The ma acres were undertaken by the Commune of Paris, and were occasioned by the consternation felt over the approach of the Pru ians, whose avowed object was to restore the king. Danton believed that before going forth to conquer foreign enemies it was nece ary to exterminate those at at to "strike terror to the royalists." He ordered, or allowed the committee of surveillance to order, the frightful ma acres of September 2-6. A band of four or five hundred a a ins, hired by the Commune, took po e ion of the prisons. Some of them constituted themselves a tribunal, others served as executioners. The prisoners were called, and after a few questions they were set at liberty or led into the courtyard of the prison and despatched with sabres, pikes, axes, and clubs. After having killed the political prisoners, they murdered prisoners of all cla es. The number of killed amounted to nine hundred and sixty-six. Duruy , Hist. of France, p. 552 (trans.). September Convention. A treaty concluded Sept. 15, 1864, between France and Italy, in accordance with which France was to withdraw troops from Rome in two years, and Italy was to guarantee the retention of Rome by the Pope. September Laws. In French history, laws restricting the freedom of the pre , promulgated in Sept., 1835. Septembrists (sep-tem'brists). 1. The instigators of the September ma acres in Paris in 1792.-2. In Portuguese history, the partizans of the liberal constitution of Sept., 1822. Septennial Act. In English history, an act of Parliament pa ed in 1716, which superseded Septennial Act the Triennial Act, and prolonged to seven years the po ible life of Parliament: Parliament must be di olved at the end of seven years. Septentriones (sep-ten-tri-ō'nēz). [From sep tem , seven, and trio , a plow-ox.] The seven stars belonging to the constellation of the Great Bear (or Charles's Wain); hence, this constellation itself, which is also called Sep ten trio . IMG:content-0890.png:[ocr errors] Sept Îles (set el). [F., 'seven islands.] A group of seven small islands, situated in the English Channel 26 miles northeast of Morlaix. They form a part of the department of Côtesdu-Nord, France. Sept i mania (sep-ti-ma'ni-ä), or Gothia (gō'thi-ä). [Named from the seventh Roman legion, which established a colony at Beterræ (Béziers).] An ancient territory in the southern part of France, of varying limits. Chief place, Narbonne. It comprised part of the Roman Narbonensis, extending from the mouth of the Rhone to the Pyrenees along the Mediterranean coast, and northwestward to the Cévennes, and comprising also Nimes and Car cas sonne. It formed part of the West-Gothic kingdom, and was retained by the West Goths in the Me roving i an epoch; was conquered by the Saracens early in the 8th century; and was conquered by Pepin the Short 752-759. It was made a duchy, and in the 9th century became a marquisate. Later of Sep timer Zeit followed the forpines paulouse southern part of the canton of Grisons, Switzer land. It leads from Bivio and the Oberhalbstein valley to Casaccia and the valley of the Maira. Height, 7,582 feet. Septimius Felton. An unfinished story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1872, after his death. IMG:content-0891.png:[blocks in formation] Sept insular (sep-tin'sū-lär) Republic. A name sometimes given to the republic of the seven Ionian Islands. Septuagint (sep'tū-a-jint). [From L. septua ginta , seventy.] A Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures made, according to tradition, by about seventy translators: usually expre ed by the symbol LXX ('the Seventy'). The legend is that it was made by seventy-two persons in seventy-two days. It is said by Joseph us to have been made in the reign and by the order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, about 270 or 280 B. c. It is supposed, however, by modern critics that this version of the several books is the work not only of different hands but of separate times. It is probable that at first only the Pent a teuch was translated, and the remaining books gradually; but the translation is believed to have been completed by the 2d century B. C. The Septuagint is written in the Hellenistic (Alexandrine) dialect, and is linguistically of great importance from its effect upon the diction of the New Testament, and as the source of a large part of the religious and theological vocabulary of the Greek fathers, and (through the Old Latin version of the Bible and the influence of this on the Vulgate) of that of the Latin fathers also and of all west nations to the present day. In the Greek Church the Septuagint has been in continuous use from the earliest times, although other Greek versions (see Hexapla ) were anciently also in circulation, and it is the Old Testament still used in that church. The Septuagint contains the books called Apocrypha intermingled among the other books. It is the version which agrees with most of the citations in the New Testament. Sepulcher (sep'ul-ker), Knights of the Holy. A military order established by Godfrey de Bouillon in 1099 to watch the sepulcher of Christ. Sepulcher, The Holy. The sepulcher in which the body of Christ lay between his burial and resurrection. Its traditional site at Jerusalem has been marked since very early times by a church. Sepúlveda (sa-pöl'vā-wha), Juan Ginez de. Born near Cordova about 1490: died at Mariano, near Cordova, 1573. A Spanish theologian and historian. He was royal historiographer from 1536, and preceptor of Prince Philip, afterward Philip II. He was one of the most noted opponents of Las Casas, holding in his treatise "Demo crates Secund us" that war on the In dians and Indian slavery were justifiable. Sepulveda's numerous works are Latin. They include histories of the reigns of Charles V. and Philip II., and many theological treatises. Referring to the elegance of his Latinity, Erasmus called him "the Spanish Livy." Sequana (sek'wa-nä). The Roman name of the Seine. Sequani (sek'wa-nī). In ancient history, a people of eastern Gaul who dwelt east of the Ædui (from whom they were separated by the Saône) and west of the Jura. They were allied with the Arverni against the Ædui. They invited Ariovistus and the Germans acro the Rhine; allowed the Helvetii through their country in 58 B. C.; and joined the league against Cæsar in 52 B. C. Serafshan. See Zerafshan . Seraglio (se-räl'yō). [It., 'an inclosure.'] The IMG:content-0892.png:[blocks in formation] dome and cupolas of St. Sophia, with its Turkish minarets, and beyond are other domes and minarets innumerable. Serbonis Lacus. See Sirbonis Lacus. Rounding Seraglio Point, the ve el glides into the Golden Horn-the wide inlet which forms the splendid harbour of Constantinople, and divides the city into its European and its Turkish quarters. Poole , Story of Turkey, p. 262.