Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . Sidliane, vol. ii., from which thepreceding plan is derived. A more general descrip-tion of them will be found in Swinburnes Travels,vol. ii. pp. 242—245; Smyths Sicily, —221; and other works on Sicily in general. The coins of Selinus are numerous and earliest, as already mentioned, bear merely tliofigure of a parsley-leaf on the obverse. Those ofsomewhat later date (including the one figuredbelow) represent a figure sacrificing on au altar, is consecrated to Aesculapius, as indicatedby the cock which stands below it. T
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . Sidliane, vol. ii., from which thepreceding plan is derived. A more general descrip-tion of them will be found in Swinburnes Travels,vol. ii. pp. 242—245; Smyths Sicily, —221; and other works on Sicily in general. The coins of Selinus are numerous and earliest, as already mentioned, bear merely tliofigure of a parsley-leaf on the obverse. Those ofsomewhat later date (including the one figuredbelow) represent a figure sacrificing on au altar, is consecrated to Aesculapius, as indicatedby the cock which stands below it. The subject ofthis type evidently refers to a story related byDiogenes Laertius (viii. 2. § 11) that the Selinun-tines were afflicted with a pestilence from themarshy character of the lands adjoining the neigh-bouring river, but that this was cured by works ofdrainage, suggested by Empedocles. The figurestanding on the coin is the river-god Selinus, whichwas thus made conducive to the salubrity of thecity. [E- H. B.] SELLASIA. g.^o. COIN OF SELINUS SELINUS (SeAiroDs: Eth. XeAivovurios or Se-Xtvovcnos: Sdenti), a port-town on the west coast ofCilicia, at the mouth of a small river of the samename, which is now called Selenti. (Scylax, p. 40 ;Liv. ; Strab. xiv. p. 682; Ptol. v. 8. § 2,viii. 17. § 42; Plin. v. 22.) This town is memorablein history as the place where, in A. d. 117, the em-peror Trajan is said by some authors to have died(Dion Cass. Ixviii. 33). After this event the place fora time bore the name of Trajanopolis; but its bishopsafterwards are called bishops of Selinus. (Hierocl. ) Basil of Seleucia (Ilto S. Theclae, ii. 17)describes the place as reduced to a state of insig-nificance in his time, though it had once been a greatcommercial town. (Conip. Stadiasm. Mar. 3far/. §§203,204; Lucan, ; Chron. Pasckale,Y>.253.)Selinus was situated on a precipitous rock, sur-rounded on almost every side by the sea, by whichposition it was render
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