And faithful counsellor, Synter´esis.
Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, vi. (1633).
Syphax, chief of the Arabs who joined the Egyptian armament against the crusaders. “The voices of these allies were feminine, and their stature small.”--Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, xvii. (1575).
Syphax, an old Numidian soldier in the suite of Prince Juba, in Utĭca. He tried to win the prince from Cato to the side of Cæsar; but Juba was too much in love with Marcia (Cato’s daughter) to listen to him. Syphax, with his “Numidian horse,” deserted in the battle to Cæsar, but the “hoary traitor” was slain by Marcus, the son of Cato.--Addison, Cato (1713).
Syrinx, a nymph beloved by Pan, and changed at her own request into a reed, of which Pan made his pipe.--Greek Fable.
Syrinx, in Spenser’s Eclogue, iv., is Anne Boleyn, and “Pan” is Henry VIII. (1579).
Tusser has a poem on Thriftiness, twelve lines in length, and in rhyme, every word of which begins with t (died 1580). Leon Placentius, a Dominican, wrote a poem in Latin hexameters, called Pugna Porcorum, 253 lines long, every word of which begins with p (died 1548).
The thrifty that teacheth the thriving to thrive,
Teach timely to traverse, the thing that thou ’trive,