Part 139 (1/2)

=Sarell Gately.= Shrewd, ”capable” girl who ”lives out” on the Heybrook farm.

”She was a young woman to take up responsibilities as she went along. She liked them. She became naturally a part of whatever was happening in her Troy; and wherever her temporary Troy might be, there was pretty sure to be something happening.”--A. D. T.

Whitney, _Odd or Even?_ (1880).

=Sa.s.senach=, a Saxon, an Englishman. (Welsh, _saesonig_ adj. and _saesoniad_ noun.)

I would, if I thought I'd be able to catch some of the Sa.s.senachs in London.--_Very Far West Indeed._

=Satan=, according to the _Talmud_, was once an archangel, but was cast out of heaven with one-third of the celestial host for refusing to do reverence to Adam.

In mediaeval mythology, Satan holds the fifth rank of the nine demoniacal orders.

Johan Wier, in his _Praestigiis Daemonum_ (1564), makes Beelzebub the sovereign of h.e.l.l, and Satan leader of the opposition.

In legendary lore, Satan is drawn with horns and tail, saucer eyes, and claws; but Milton makes him a proud, selfish, ambitious chief, of gigantic size, beautiful, daring, and commanding. He declares his opinion that it is ”better to reign in h.e.l.l than serve in heaven.” Defoe has written a _Political History of the Devil_ (1726).

_Satan_, according to Milton, monarch of h.e.l.l. His chief lords are Beelzebub, Moloch, Chemos, Thammuz, Dagon, Rimmon, and Belial. His standard-bearer is Azaz'el.

He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had not yet lost All her original brightness; nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ... but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek ... cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. 589, etc. (1665).

? The word Satan means ”enemy;” hence Milton says:

To whom the arch-enemy, ... in heaven called Satan.

_Paradise Lost_, i. 81 (1665).

=Satanic School= (_The_), a cla.s.s of writers in the earlier part of the nineteenth century, who showed a scorn for all moral rules and the generally received dogmas of the Christian religion. The most eminent English writers of this school were Bulwer (afterwards Lord Lytton), Byron, Moore, and P. B. Sh.e.l.ley. Of French writers: Paul de k.o.c.k, Rousseau, George Sand, and Victor Hugo.

=Satire= (_Father of_), Archilochos of Paros (B.C. seventh century).

_Satire_ (_Father of French_), Mathurin Regnier (1573-1613).

_Satire_ (_Father of Roman_), Lucilius (B.C. 148-103).

=Satiro-mastix=, or _The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet_, a comedy by Thomas Dekker (1602). Ben Jonson, in 1601, had attacked Dekker in _The Poetaster_, where he calls himself ”Horace,” and Dekker ”Cris'pinus.”

Next year (1602), Dekker replied with spirit to this attack, in a comedy ent.i.tled _Satiro-mastix_, where Jonson is called ”Horace, junior.”

=Sat.u.r.day.= To the following English sovereigns from the establishment of the Tudor dynasty, Sat.u.r.day has proved a fatal day:--

HENRY VII. died Sat.u.r.day, April 21, 1509.