SETIA (mod. Sezze, 52 M. by

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• RAIL

rail S.E. of

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• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome)  , an ancient town of Latium (adjectum), Italy, on the south-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 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 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 .

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im Lichte des alien 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 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 line shown where a wall 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 the set-off is generally concealed by a projecting 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 .