Semiramis
A celebrated queen of Assyria, who married the governor of Nineveh, and at his death she became the wife of King Ninus.
She caused many improvements to be effected in her kingdom, as well as distinguishing herself as a warrior. She is supposed to have lived B. C. 1965.
Seneca, L. Annaeus. He was distinguished by his talents at an early period of his life. He became preceptor to Nero, in which capacity he gained general approbation. The tyrant, however, determined to put him to death, and he chose to have his veins opened in a hot bath, but, death not ensuing, he swallowed poison, and was eventually suffocated by the soldiers who were in attendance. This occurred in his fifty-third year, and in the sixtyfifth of the Christian era. His works, which were numerous, were chiefly on moral subjects.
Sepias (St. George). A promontory in the southeast of Thessaly, in the district Magnesia, on which a great part of the fleet of Xerxes was wrecked.