Segesta, a town of Sicily founded by Æneas, or, according to some, by Crinisus. See: [Ægesta].
Segestes, a German, friendly to the Roman interest in the time of Germanicus. His daughter married Arminius. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 1, ch. 55.
Segetia, a divinity at Rome, invoked by the husbandmen that the harvest might be plentiful. Augustine, City of God, bk. 4, ch. 8.—Macrobius, bk. 1, ch. 16.—Pliny, bk. 18, ch. 2.
Segni, a people with a town of the same name in Belgic Gaul. Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 6.
Segrobrica, a town of Spain near Saguntum. Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 3.
Segōnax, a prince in the southern parts of Britain, who opposed Cæsar, by order of Cassivelaunus, &c. Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 5, ch. 22.
Segontia, or Seguntia, a town of Hispania Tarraconensis. Livy, bk. 34, ch. 10.
Segontiăci, a people of Belgic Gaul, who submitted to Julius Cæsar.
Segovia, a town of Spain, of great power in the age of the Cæsars.——There was also another of the same name in Lusitania. Both had been founded by the Celtiberi.
Seguntium, a town of Britain, supposed to be Carnarvon in Wales. Cæsar, Gallic War, bk. 5, ch. 21.