Sword of Rome (The), Marcellus. Fabius was called “The Shield of Rome” (time of Hannibal’s invasion).
Swordsman (The Handsome). Joachim Murat was called Le Beau Sabreur (1767-1815).
Syb´arite (3 syl.), an effeminate man, a man of pampered self-indulgence. Seneca tells us of a sybarite who could not endure the nubble of a folded rose leaf in his bed.
[Her bed] softer than the soft sybarite’s, who cried
Aloud because his feelings were too tender
To brook a ruffled rose leaf by his side.
Byron, Don Juan, vi. 89 (1824).
Sybrandt, cousin and lover of Catalina, in The Dutchman’s Fireside, by James Kirke Paulding. The girl, half-spoiled by city life, is now ashamed of her rustic lover in his snuff-colored suit; anon, believes all the slanderous tales she hears of him, and, when she witnesses his terrible struggle with the Indian who sought her life, knows that she loves him truly and entirely (1831).
Syc´orax, a foul witch, the mistress of Ariel, the fairy spirit, by whom for some offence he was imprisoned in the rift of a cloven pine tree. After he had been kept there for twelve years, he was liberated by Prospero, the rightful duke of Milan, and father of Miranda. Sycorax was the mother of Caliban.--Shakespeare, The Tempest (1609).
If you had told Sycorax that her son, Caliban, was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.--Thackeray.