*** Southey has converted this legend into a ballad of nine lays (1829).
Sinon, the crafty Greek, who persuaded the Trojans to drag the Wooden Horse into their city.—Virgil, Æneid, ii.
Dantê, in his Inferno, places Sinon, with Potiphar’s wife, Nimrod, and the rebellious giants, in the tenth pit of Malêbolgê.
Sin Saxon. Sprightly, sparkling personage, who appears, first as a saucy girl, then, as a vivacious young matron, in several of A. D. T. Whitney’s books. She marries Frank Sherman.—A. D. T. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite and The Other Girls.
Sintram, the Greek hero of the German romance, Sintram and His Companions, by Baron Lamotte Fouqué.
Sintram’s Sword, Welsung.
Sio´na, a seraph, to whom was committed the charge of Bartholomew, the apostle.—Klopstock, The Messiah, iii. (1748).
Siph´a, the guardian angel of Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.—Klopstock, The Messiah, iii. (1748).
Si´phax, a soldier, in love with Princess Calis, sister of Astorax, king of Paphos. The princess is in love with Polydore, the brother of General Memnon, (“the mad brother”).—Beaumont and Fletcher, The Mad Lover (1617).
Sir Oracle, a dictatorial prig; a dogmatic pedant.