Of Antioch, a writer on Geography,
while Laelius attacked the town by sea ; but it is whom Pliny mentions among his chief authorities.
while Laelius attacked the town by sea ; but it is whom Pliny mentions among his chief authorities.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
Valerius Flaccus in B.
C.
59 (Flaccus, VA- works were no longer extant, but that a conspicuous
LERIUS, No. 15). (Cic. pro Flacc. 4, 35. ) tomb had been reared to his memory below Aricia.
6. C. Septimius, praetor B. c. 57, supported in consequence of this note Titius is believed by
Cicero's recall from banishment. Cicero speaks of many modern commentators to be the same indi-
him as augur in B. C. 45. (Cic. post Red. in Sen. vidual with the Septimius who is addressed in the
9, ad Au. xii. 13, 14. )
sixth ode of the second book, and who is introduced
7. P. Septimius, the quaestor of M. Terentius in the ninth epistle of the first book. [SEPTIMIUS,
Varro, who sent to him three books De Lingua No. 10. ) Much learning and ingenuity have
Latina (Varr. L. L. v. l, vii. 109, ed. Müller). He been displayed in attacking and defending this
is probably the same as the P. Septimius, who position, as may be seen from the dissertation “ De
wrote two books on architecture, as his name is Titio Septimio poëta," in the “Poëtarum Latinorum
mentioned by Vitruvius in conjunction with Reliquiae" of Weichert, 8vo. Lips. 1830, pp. 365—
Varro's. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. p. 194, ed. Bip. ) 390; see also the remarks of Obbarius on Hor.
8. L. Septimius, had served as a centurion Ep. i. 3. 9.
(W. R. ]
under Cn. Pompey, in the war against the pirates, L. SEPTIMULEIUS, of Anagnia, although a
and afterwards under Gabinius, when he restored friend of C. Gracchus, carried the head of the latter
Ptolemy Auletes to the throne. Gabinius left to the consul Opimius, and obtained for it its
him behind in Egypt with a considerable force, to weight in gold, in accordance with a proclamation
protect the king, and he was still in the country, which had been made at the beginning of the
with the rank of tribunus militum, when Pompey contest. It is related that Septimuleius took out
fled there after the battle of Pharsalia, in B. C. 48. the brain, and put melted lead in its stead, or, ac-
In conjunction with Achillas, he slew his old cording to another version of the story, filled the
commander, as he was landing in Egypt. Appian mouth with lead. (Plut. C. Gracch. 17; Val. Mar.
erroneously calls him Sempronius. (Dion Cass. ix. 4. $ 3; Plin. H. N. xxxii, 14; Cic. de Orat.
xlii. 3, 4, 38 ; Caes. B. C. iii. 104 ; Plut. Pomp. ii. 67. )
78 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 84. )
SE'PTIMUS, L. MA'RCIUS (Liv. xxxi. 2),
9. Septimius, was proscribed by the triumvirs usually called by Livy simply L. Marcius, was a
in B. C. 43, and betrayed by his wife to the assas- Roman eques, and served for many years under Cn.
sins. (Appian, B. C. iv. 23).
Scipio in Spain. On the defeat and death of the two
10. SEPTIMIUS, a friend of Horace, who dedi- Scipios in Spain, in B. c. 211, L. Marcius, who
cates to him one of his odes (Carm. ji. 6, Epist. i. had already gained great distinction by his military
9). He is also called by Augustus Septimius noster, abilities, was called by the soldiers to take the com-
in a letter addressed by the emperor to Horace. mand of the surviving troops, and by his prudence
(Suet. Hor. )
and energy preserved them from total destruction,
11. Septimius, a centurion, slain by the soldiers | He appears indeed to have gained some advantage
in Germany, where they broke out into revole at over the Carthaginian army commanded by Hase
the commencement of the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. drubal, son of Gisco, which the Roman annalists
Ant. i. 32. )
magnified into a brilliant victory. The details of
12. SEPTIMIUS, wrote the life of Alexander ( the history of the Roman war in Spain are not
.
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SEQUESTER.
SERAPION.
785
deserving of much credit, as has been already re- Several names appear in this piece which are to
marked (Vol. III. p. 742, 2); 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 bimself, 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 lles-
Hasdrubal. But notwithstanding his services selius,“ Scriptor est, nisi multis in locis interpo-
he 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 magnaevc 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. $ 11; 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. 1770, which contains a large body of very
distinction. After the capture of New Carthnge, learned and useful notes.
(W. R. )
Scipio sent him with a third of the army to lay SERAMBUS (Evpaubos), 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, LELIUS. ]
Astapa, which he laid in ruins. During the dan- SERA'PIO, a surname of P. Cornelius Scipio
gerous illness of Scipio in B. C. 206, the command Nasica, consul B. c. 138. (Scipio, No. 24. )
of the troops devolved upon Marcius. In the same SERA'PION (Eepaniwv) or SARA'PION, lite-
year he marched against Gades with a land force, rary. ).
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. ) He seems to be the same
exploits. He 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 Att. ii. 4, 6. )
ticular gained so much of the approbation of his 2. Aelius Serapion, of Alexandria, a distin-
general, 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 s nobilitas ac justi honores. " his are enumerated by Suidas : ſiepl TW év tais
(Liv. Χxviii. 19, 22, 34-36, 42, xxxii. 2 ; Polyb. Η μελέταις αμαρτανομένων, 'Ακροάσεων βιβλία,
xi. 23; Appian, Hisp. 26, 31—34. )
Πανηγυρικός επ' 'Αδριανά τη βασιλεί, Βουλευτικός
Q. SEPTITIUS, a Roman eques oppressed by | Αλεξανδρεύσιν, Ει δικαίως Πλάτων “Ομηρον απέ-
Verres. (Cic. Verr. iii. 14. )
πεμψε της πολιτείας, Τέχνη ρητορική, and many
SEPU'LLIUS BASSUS. [Bassus. ]
other works. There is also a little work on astro-
SEPU'LLIUS MACER. (Macer. ]
logy ascribed to him. (Lambec. 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 dames contained in the Roman vol. iii. p. 5, vol. xiii. p. 95). )
poets. Prefixed is an introductory letter, addressed 3. A younger Serapion, of Alexandria, is men-
by 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. Flu. 4. A philosopher of Hierapolis (Steph. Byz. s. v.
mina. 2. Fontes. 3. Lacus. 4. Nemora. 5. Pa- 'lepáronis), probably the same as the following.
ludes. 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 eu-
spring, 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 Damascius, but containing scarcely any facts of
annexed they are expressed in very succinct terms, general interest. His library is said to have con-
Concerning the 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 Anima, 46. )
have been indebted to scholiasts for any little in- 8. There was at least one poet 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 intro-
copied Servius (e. g. Montes s. r. Cutillus). 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 and
venture to speak with certainty.
Hesiod, for their force, and grace, and the style of
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786
SERENA.
SERENUS.
.
their language. It is, therefore, scarcely to be foster-mother of the emperor Honorius, and wiſe
doubted that this Serapion is the same poct from of Stilicho. (HONORIUS ; Stilicho. ] [W: P. )
whose can Clemens Alexandrinus quotes certain SERENIANUS, A E’LIUS, a member of the
statements respecting the Sibylline oracles. (Strom. consilium of the emperor Alexander Severus, is
vol. i. p. 304. ) Stobaeus, agnin, quotes two called by Lampridius “omnium vir sanctissimus. "
iambic verses froin a certain Serapion. (Serm. 10. ) (Alex. Sever. 68. )
9. There are also some Christian writers of this SERE'NUS, AEʻLIUS, an Athenian gram-
name, but not of sufficient importance to require marian of uncertain date, wrote an epitome of the
particular notice. What is known of them, as work of Philo on Cities and their illustrious men,
well as of the other Serapions, will be found in in three books, and an epitome of the commentary
Fabricius. (Bill. Gruec. vol. ix. pp. 154—158, and of Philoxenus on Homer, in one book (Suidas, s. v.
the other passages there referred to). (P. S. ) Sepñvos ; comp. Etym. M. s. vo. 'Apo ivón and Bou-
SERAPION (Σεραπίων), a physician of Alex- | κέρας). Serenus also wrote Απομνημονεύματα,
andria (Galen, Introd. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 683), who from which Stobaeus makes numerous extracts
lived in the third century B. C. , after Herophilus, | (Stobaeus, Floril. xi. 15, et passim). Photius
Erasistratus, and Philinus, and before Apollonius makes mention (Bibl. Cod. 279, p. 536, a. , ed.
Empiricus, Glaucias, Heraclides of Tarentum, Me- Bekker) of dramas, written in different metres, by
nodotus, Sextus Empiricus (Gal. l. c. ; Celsus, the grammarian Serenus, who is probably the same
De Med. i. praef. p. 5), and Crito (Galen, Dc person as the preceding. (Vossius, De Hist. Graecis,
Compos. Mcdicam. sec. Gen. vi. 4. vol. xiii. p. 883). p. 498, ed. Westermann. )
lle belonged to the sect of the Empirici, and so SERE'NUS, AMU'LIUS, one of the prin.
much extended and improved the system of Phi- cipal centurions (primipilares) in Galba's army in
linus, that the invention of it is by some authors Rome in A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. i.
LERIUS, No. 15). (Cic. pro Flacc. 4, 35. ) tomb had been reared to his memory below Aricia.
6. C. Septimius, praetor B. c. 57, supported in consequence of this note Titius is believed by
Cicero's recall from banishment. Cicero speaks of many modern commentators to be the same indi-
him as augur in B. C. 45. (Cic. post Red. in Sen. vidual with the Septimius who is addressed in the
9, ad Au. xii. 13, 14. )
sixth ode of the second book, and who is introduced
7. P. Septimius, the quaestor of M. Terentius in the ninth epistle of the first book. [SEPTIMIUS,
Varro, who sent to him three books De Lingua No. 10. ) Much learning and ingenuity have
Latina (Varr. L. L. v. l, vii. 109, ed. Müller). He been displayed in attacking and defending this
is probably the same as the P. Septimius, who position, as may be seen from the dissertation “ De
wrote two books on architecture, as his name is Titio Septimio poëta," in the “Poëtarum Latinorum
mentioned by Vitruvius in conjunction with Reliquiae" of Weichert, 8vo. Lips. 1830, pp. 365—
Varro's. (Vitruv. vii. Praef. p. 194, ed. Bip. ) 390; see also the remarks of Obbarius on Hor.
8. L. Septimius, had served as a centurion Ep. i. 3. 9.
(W. R. ]
under Cn. Pompey, in the war against the pirates, L. SEPTIMULEIUS, of Anagnia, although a
and afterwards under Gabinius, when he restored friend of C. Gracchus, carried the head of the latter
Ptolemy Auletes to the throne. Gabinius left to the consul Opimius, and obtained for it its
him behind in Egypt with a considerable force, to weight in gold, in accordance with a proclamation
protect the king, and he was still in the country, which had been made at the beginning of the
with the rank of tribunus militum, when Pompey contest. It is related that Septimuleius took out
fled there after the battle of Pharsalia, in B. C. 48. the brain, and put melted lead in its stead, or, ac-
In conjunction with Achillas, he slew his old cording to another version of the story, filled the
commander, as he was landing in Egypt. Appian mouth with lead. (Plut. C. Gracch. 17; Val. Mar.
erroneously calls him Sempronius. (Dion Cass. ix. 4. $ 3; Plin. H. N. xxxii, 14; Cic. de Orat.
xlii. 3, 4, 38 ; Caes. B. C. iii. 104 ; Plut. Pomp. ii. 67. )
78 ; Appian, B. C. ii. 84. )
SE'PTIMUS, L. MA'RCIUS (Liv. xxxi. 2),
9. Septimius, was proscribed by the triumvirs usually called by Livy simply L. Marcius, was a
in B. C. 43, and betrayed by his wife to the assas- Roman eques, and served for many years under Cn.
sins. (Appian, B. C. iv. 23).
Scipio in Spain. On the defeat and death of the two
10. SEPTIMIUS, a friend of Horace, who dedi- Scipios in Spain, in B. c. 211, L. Marcius, who
cates to him one of his odes (Carm. ji. 6, Epist. i. had already gained great distinction by his military
9). He is also called by Augustus Septimius noster, abilities, was called by the soldiers to take the com-
in a letter addressed by the emperor to Horace. mand of the surviving troops, and by his prudence
(Suet. Hor. )
and energy preserved them from total destruction,
11. Septimius, a centurion, slain by the soldiers | He appears indeed to have gained some advantage
in Germany, where they broke out into revole at over the Carthaginian army commanded by Hase
the commencement of the reign of Tiberius. (Tac. drubal, son of Gisco, which the Roman annalists
Ant. i. 32. )
magnified into a brilliant victory. The details of
12. SEPTIMIUS, wrote the life of Alexander ( the history of the Roman war in Spain are not
.
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SEQUESTER.
SERAPION.
785
deserving of much credit, as has been already re- Several names appear in this piece which are to
marked (Vol. III. p. 742, 2); 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 bimself, 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 lles-
Hasdrubal. But notwithstanding his services selius,“ Scriptor est, nisi multis in locis interpo-
he 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 magnaevc 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. $ 11; 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. 1770, which contains a large body of very
distinction. After the capture of New Carthnge, learned and useful notes.
(W. R. )
Scipio sent him with a third of the army to lay SERAMBUS (Evpaubos), 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, LELIUS. ]
Astapa, which he laid in ruins. During the dan- SERA'PIO, a surname of P. Cornelius Scipio
gerous illness of Scipio in B. C. 206, the command Nasica, consul B. c. 138. (Scipio, No. 24. )
of the troops devolved upon Marcius. In the same SERA'PION (Eepaniwv) or SARA'PION, lite-
year he marched against Gades with a land force, rary. ).
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. ) He seems to be the same
exploits. He 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 Att. ii. 4, 6. )
ticular gained so much of the approbation of his 2. Aelius Serapion, of Alexandria, a distin-
general, 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 s nobilitas ac justi honores. " his are enumerated by Suidas : ſiepl TW év tais
(Liv. Χxviii. 19, 22, 34-36, 42, xxxii. 2 ; Polyb. Η μελέταις αμαρτανομένων, 'Ακροάσεων βιβλία,
xi. 23; Appian, Hisp. 26, 31—34. )
Πανηγυρικός επ' 'Αδριανά τη βασιλεί, Βουλευτικός
Q. SEPTITIUS, a Roman eques oppressed by | Αλεξανδρεύσιν, Ει δικαίως Πλάτων “Ομηρον απέ-
Verres. (Cic. Verr. iii. 14. )
πεμψε της πολιτείας, Τέχνη ρητορική, and many
SEPU'LLIUS BASSUS. [Bassus. ]
other works. There is also a little work on astro-
SEPU'LLIUS MACER. (Macer. ]
logy ascribed to him. (Lambec. 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 dames contained in the Roman vol. iii. p. 5, vol. xiii. p. 95). )
poets. Prefixed is an introductory letter, addressed 3. A younger Serapion, of Alexandria, is men-
by 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. Flu. 4. A philosopher of Hierapolis (Steph. Byz. s. v.
mina. 2. Fontes. 3. Lacus. 4. Nemora. 5. Pa- 'lepáronis), probably the same as the following.
ludes. 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 eu-
spring, 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 Damascius, but containing scarcely any facts of
annexed they are expressed in very succinct terms, general interest. His library is said to have con-
Concerning the 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 Anima, 46. )
have been indebted to scholiasts for any little in- 8. There was at least one poet 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 intro-
copied Servius (e. g. Montes s. r. Cutillus). 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 and
venture to speak with certainty.
Hesiod, for their force, and grace, and the style of
VOL. IIL.
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## p. 786 (#802) ############################################
786
SERENA.
SERENUS.
.
their language. It is, therefore, scarcely to be foster-mother of the emperor Honorius, and wiſe
doubted that this Serapion is the same poct from of Stilicho. (HONORIUS ; Stilicho. ] [W: P. )
whose can Clemens Alexandrinus quotes certain SERENIANUS, A E’LIUS, a member of the
statements respecting the Sibylline oracles. (Strom. consilium of the emperor Alexander Severus, is
vol. i. p. 304. ) Stobaeus, agnin, quotes two called by Lampridius “omnium vir sanctissimus. "
iambic verses froin a certain Serapion. (Serm. 10. ) (Alex. Sever. 68. )
9. There are also some Christian writers of this SERE'NUS, AEʻLIUS, an Athenian gram-
name, but not of sufficient importance to require marian of uncertain date, wrote an epitome of the
particular notice. What is known of them, as work of Philo on Cities and their illustrious men,
well as of the other Serapions, will be found in in three books, and an epitome of the commentary
Fabricius. (Bill. Gruec. vol. ix. pp. 154—158, and of Philoxenus on Homer, in one book (Suidas, s. v.
the other passages there referred to). (P. S. ) Sepñvos ; comp. Etym. M. s. vo. 'Apo ivón and Bou-
SERAPION (Σεραπίων), a physician of Alex- | κέρας). Serenus also wrote Απομνημονεύματα,
andria (Galen, Introd. c. 4. vol. xiv. p. 683), who from which Stobaeus makes numerous extracts
lived in the third century B. C. , after Herophilus, | (Stobaeus, Floril. xi. 15, et passim). Photius
Erasistratus, and Philinus, and before Apollonius makes mention (Bibl. Cod. 279, p. 536, a. , ed.
Empiricus, Glaucias, Heraclides of Tarentum, Me- Bekker) of dramas, written in different metres, by
nodotus, Sextus Empiricus (Gal. l. c. ; Celsus, the grammarian Serenus, who is probably the same
De Med. i. praef. p. 5), and Crito (Galen, Dc person as the preceding. (Vossius, De Hist. Graecis,
Compos. Mcdicam. sec. Gen. vi. 4. vol. xiii. p. 883). p. 498, ed. Westermann. )
lle belonged to the sect of the Empirici, and so SERE'NUS, AMU'LIUS, one of the prin.
much extended and improved the system of Phi- cipal centurions (primipilares) in Galba's army in
linus, that the invention of it is by some authors Rome in A. D. 69. (Tac. Hist. i.
