. attacked and burntthe palace, and Seleucus perished in the flames.(App. Syr. 69; Jos. Ant. xiii. 13, 4.) Selge (: SeA/yeus: Siirk, Bu.), one ofthe chief of the independent mountain cities ofPisidia, stood on the S. side of M. Taurus, onthe Eurymedon, just where the river breaksthrough the mountain chain. On a rock above [ it was a citadel named KtafieSiov; in which wasa temple of Hera. Its inhabitants, who were i the most warlike of all the Pisidians, claimeddescent from the Lacedaemonians, and inscribedthe name
. attacked and burntthe palace, and Seleucus perished in the flames.(App. Syr. 69; Jos. Ant. xiii. 13, 4.) Selge (: SeA/yeus: Siirk, Bu.), one ofthe chief of the independent mountain cities ofPisidia, stood on the S. side of M. Taurus, onthe Eurymedon, just where the river breaksthrough the mountain chain. On a rock above [ it was a citadel named KtafieSiov; in which wasa temple of Hera. Its inhabitants, who were i the most warlike of all the Pisidians, claimeddescent from the Lacedaemonians, and inscribedthe name ;v on their coins (Strab. ). They could bring an army of 20,000 meninto the field, and, as late as the fifth century,we find them beating back a horde of Goths(Zos. v. 15). Prom a valley near the city, in theheart of lofty mountains, came wine and oil and i other products of the most luxuriant site of the ancient city is marked by fineruins. Selinus (SzAlvovs, -ovvtos : ~Zs\ivovvtios, 2c-Ai vovcrios), one of the most important towns in. Coin of Selinus, of 5th cent. Oil., Apollo and Artemis in chariot; rev., 2EAINONTION;the river-god Selinus with patera sacrificing at altar,by which is a cock, sacred to Asclepius ; behind is abull (for the river-god), and parsley, the emblem of thecity. Sicily, situated upon a hill on the SW. coast,and upon a river of the same name. It is saidto have derived its name from the quantity ofwild parsley (creKiv6s) which grew in the neigh-bourhood. It was founded by the Dorians fromMegara Hyblaea on the E. coast of Sicily, 628. (Thuc. vi. 4, vii. 57 ; Strab. p. 272.) Itsoon attained great prosperity. In 480 it took j part with the Carthaginians (Diod. xi. 21). In416 the dispute with the Segestans, who sought I the aid of Athens, occasioned the Athenian ex-pedition to Sicily. After the defeat of theAthenians, the Carthaginians came to helpSegesta, and took Selinus in 409, when most ofits inhabitants were slain or
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