The Sacred War, a war undertaken by the Athenians for the purpose of restoring Delphi to the Phocians (B.C. 448-447).
The Sacred War, a war undertaken by Philip of Macedon, as chief of the Amphictyonic League, for the purpose of wresting Delphi from the Phocians (B.C. 357).
Sa´cripant (King), king of Circassia, and a lover of Angelica.—Bojardo, Orlando Innamorato (1495); Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).
With the same stratagem, Sacripant had his steed stolen from under him, by that notorious thief Brunello, at the siege of Albracca.—Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. iii. 9 (1605).
*** The allusion is to Sancho Panza’s ass, which was stolen from under him by the galley-slave, Gines de Passamonte.
Sacripant, a false, noisy, hectoring braggart; a kind of Pistol or Bobadil.—Tasso, Secchia Rapita (i.e. “Rape of the Bucket”).
Sa´dak and Kalasra´de (4 syl.), Sadak, general of the forces of Am´urath, sultan of Turkey, lived with Kalasradê in retirement, and their home life was so happy that it aroused the jealousy of the sultan, who employed emissaries to set fire to their house, carry off Kalasradê to the seraglio, and seize the children. Sadak, not knowing who were the agents of these evils, laid his complaint before Amurath, and then learnt that Kalasradê was in the seraglio. The sultan swore not to force his love upon her till she had drowned the recollections of her past life by a draught of the waters of oblivion. Sadak was sent on this expedition. On his return, Amurath seized the goblet, and, quaffing its contents, found “that the waters of oblivion were the waters of death.” He died, and Sadak was made sultan in his stead.—J. Ridley, Tales of the Genii (“Sadak and Kalasradê,” ix. 1751).
Sadaroubay. So Eve is called in Indian mythology.
Saddletree (Mr. Bartoline), the learned saddler.
Mrs. Saddletree, the wife of Bartoline.—Sir W. Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).