nto _D'iago_
or _Diago_, which we soften into _Diego_.--Ambrosio de Morales,
_Coronica General de Espa[~n]a_, ix. 7 sect. 2 (1586).

=Santons=, a body of religionists, also called _Abdals_, who pretended to
be inspired with the most enthusiastic raptures of divine love. They
were regarded by the vulgar as saints. Olearius, _Reisebeschreibung_, i.
971 (1647).

=Sapphi'ra=, a female liar.--_Acts_ v. 1.

She is called the village Sapphira.--Crabbe.

=Sappho=, Greek poetess of the sixth century B.C., called "The Tenth
Muse." Fragments of her verse remain which are very beautiful. She was
the victim of unrequited love, and leaped to her death from the
Leucadian Rock into the sea.

_Sappho_ (_The English_), Mrs. Mary D. Robinson (1758-1800).

_Sappho_ (_The French_), Mdlle. Scud['e]ri (1607-1704).

_Sappho_ (_The Scotch_), Catherine Cockburn (1679-1749).

=Sappho of Toulouse=, Cl['e]mence Isaure (2 _syl._), who instituted, in
1490, _Les Jeux Floraux_. She is the authoress of a beautiful _Ode to
Spring_ (1463-1513).

=Sapskull=, a raw Yorkshire tike, son of Squire Sapskull, of Sapskull
Hall. Sir Penurious Muckworm wishes him to marry his niece and ward,
Arbella, but as Arbella loves Gaylove, a young barrister, the tike is
played upon thus: Gaylove assumes to be Muckworm, and his lad, Slango,
dresses up as a woman to pass for Arbella; and while Sapskull "marries"
Slango, Gaylove, who assumes the dress and manners of the Yorkshire
tike, marries Arbella. Of course, the trick is then discovered, and
Sapskull returns to the home of his father, befooled but not
married.--Carey, _The Honest Yorkshireman_ (1736).

=Saracen= (_A_), in Arthurian romance, means any unbaptized person,
regardless of nationality. Thus, Priamus, of Tuscany, is called a
Saracen (pt. i. 96, 97); so is Sir Palomides, simply because he refused
to be baptized till he had done some noble deed (pt. ii.).--Sir T.
Malory, _History of Prince Arthur_ (1470).

=Sara Carroll.= Devoted daughter of Major Carroll and firm ally of her
dainty stepmother, Madame Carroll, in the latter's renewal of
intercourse with her eldest son and concealment of his existence from
her husband. Sara contrives that the mother shall be with the young man
when he dies, and by becoming the go-between for the two, incurs the
suspicions of her lover.--Constance Fenimore Woolson, _For the Major_.

=Saragossa= (_The Maid of_), Augustina Saragossa or Zarago