SETIA (mod. Sezze, 52 M. by rail S.E. of Rome)

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SETIA (mod. Sezze, 52 M. by rail S.E. of Rome) , an ancient town of Latium (adjectum), Italy, on the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

-west edge of the Volscian mountains, overlooking.the Pomptine Marshes, 1047 ft. above sea-level, and over 900 ft. above the plain. It was an ancient Volscian town, a member of the Latin league of 499 B.C., which became a Latin colony in 382 B.C., and, owing to the strength of its position as a frontier fortress, is frequently mentioned in the military history of Rome up to the time of Sulla, by whom it was captured in 82 B.C. Under the empire it was well known for its wine, which

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

preferred even to Falernian. Considerable remains of the city walls exist, built of large blocks of limestone in the polygonal style. This style may also be seen in several terrace walls belonging to a later date, as is indicated by the careful jointing and bossing of the blocks of which they are composed. Such intentional archaism is by no means uncommon in the neighbourhood of Rome. The modern town, occupying the ancient site, is an episcopal see, with a much-restored 13th-century

Gothic

GOTHIC

cathedral. Pop. (1901) 6944 (town), 10,827 (commune). At the foot of the hill on which the town stands are considerable remains of Roman villas. (T. As.)
' A. Jeremias, Das A. T. im Lichte des

alien

ALIEN (Lat. alienus)

Orients, p. 118. 2 Encycl. Biblica, ".Seth," " Egypt." ' E. Meyer, Die Israeliten and tihre Nachbarstamme, p. 219.
SETON 703
SET-OFF, in law, a statutory defence to the whole or to a portion of a plaintiff's claim. It had no existence under the English common law, being created by 2 Geo. II. c. 22 for the relief of insolvent debtors. Such a defence could be pleaded only in respect of mutual debts of a definite character, and did not apply to cases in which

damages

DAMAGES (through O. Fr. damage, mod. Fr. dommage, from Lat. damnum, loss)

were claimed, nor to equitable claims or demands. By the rules of the Supreme Court (O. XIX. r. 3) a defendant in an action may set off or set up any right or claim by way of counterclaim against the claims of a plaintiff, and such set-off or counterclaim has the same effect as a statement of claim in a cross-action. (See PLEADING.)
In architecture, the term set-off is given to the

horizontal

HORIZONTAL

line shown where a

wall

WALL (O. Eng. weal, weall, Mid. Eng. wal, wane, adapted from Lat. vallum, rampart; the
original
- ORIGINAL
O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth)
WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778)

is reduced in thickness, and consequently the part of the thicker portion appears projecting before the thinner. In plinths this is generally simply chamfered. In other parts of

work

WORK

the set-off is generally concealed by a projecting

string

STRING

. Where, as in parapets, the upper part projects before the lower, the break is generally hid by a corbel table. The portions of buttress caps which recede one behind another are also called sets-off.

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