ing Sanchez
Was before Zamora slain.

Longfellow, _The Challenge_.

=Sanchi'ca=, eldest daughter of Sancho and Teresa Panza.--Cervantes, _Don
Quixote_ (1605-15)[TN-159]

=Sancho= (_Don_), a rich old beau, uncle to Victoria. "He affects the
misdemeanors of a youth, hides his baldness with amber locks, and
complains of toothache, to make people believe that his teeth are not
false ones." Don Sancho "loves in the style of Roderigo I."--Mrs.
Cowley, _A Bold Stroke for a Husband_ (1782).

=Sancho Panza=, the squire of Don Quixote. A short, pot-bellied peasant,
with plenty of shrewdness and good common sense. He rode upon an ass
which he dearly loved, and was noted for his proverbs.

_Sancho Panza's Ass_, Dapple.

_Sancho Panza's Island-City_, Barataria, where he was for a time
governor.

_Sancho Panza's Wife_, Teresa [Cascajo] (pt. II. i. 5); Maria or Mary
[Gutierez] (pt. II. iv. 7); Dame Juana [Gutierez] (pt. I. i. 7); and
Joan (pt. I. iv. 21).--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_ (1605-15).

[Asterism] The model painting of Sancho Panza is by Leslie; it is called
"Sancho and the Duchess."

=Sanchoni'athon= or SANCHONIATHO. Nine books ascribed to this author are
published at Bremen in 1838. The original was said to have been
discovered in the convent of St. Maria de Merinh[^a]o, by Colonel Pereira,
a Portuguese; but it was soon ascertained that no such convent existed,
that there was no colonel of the name Pereira in the Portuguese service,
and that the paper bore the water-mark of the Osnabr[:u]ck paper-mills.
(See IMPOSTORS, LITERARY.)

=Sanct-Cyr= (_Hugh de_), the seneschal of King Ren['e], at Aix.--Sir W.
Scott, _Anne of Geierstein_ (time, Edward IV.).

=Sancy Diamond= (_The_) weighs 53-1/2 carats, and belonged to Charles
"the Bold" of Burgundy. It was bought, in 1495, by Emmanuel of Portugal,
and was sold, in 1580, by Don Antonio to the Sieur de Sancy, in whose
family it remained for a century. The sieur deposited it with Henri IV.
as a security for a loan of money. The servant entrusted with it, being
attacked by robbers, swallowed it, and being murdered, the diamond was
recovered by Nicholas de Harlay. We next hear of it in the possession of
James II. of England, who carried it with him in his flight, in 1688.
Louis XIV. bought it of him for [pounds]25,000. It was sold in the
Revolution; Napoleon I. rebought it; in 1825 it was sold to Paul
Demidoff for [pounds]80,000. The prince sold it, in 183