Prince Albert died Saturday, December 14, 1861. The duchess of Kent and the Princess Alice also died on a Saturday.
*** William III., Anne, and George I., all died on a Sunday; William IV. on a Tuesday.
Saturn, son of Heaven and Earth. He always swallowed his children immediately they were born, till his wife, Rhea, not liking to see all her children perish, concealed from him the birth of Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, and gave her husband large stones instead, which he swallowed without knowing the difference.
Much as old Saturn ate his progeny;
For when his pious consort gave him stones
In lieu of sons, of those he made no bones.
Byron, Don Juan, xiv. 1 (1824).
Saturn, an evil and malignant planet.
He is a genius full of gall, an author born under the planet Saturn, a malicious mortal whose pleasure consists in hating all the world.—Lesage, Gil Blas, v. 12 (1724).
The children born under the sayd Saturne shall be great jangeleres and chyders ... and they will never forgyve tyll they be revenged of theyr quarrell.—Ptholomeus, Compost.
Satyr. T. Woolner calls Charles II. “Charles the Satyr.”
Next flared Charles Satyr’s saturnalia
Of lady nymphs.
My Beautiful Lady.
*** The most famous statue of the satyrs is that by Praxitĕlês, of Athens, in the fourth century.