za, who, in
1808, when the city was invested by the French, mounted the battery in
the place of her lover who had been shot. Lord Byron says, when he was
at Seville, "the maid" used to walk daily on the prado, decorated with
medals and orders, by command of the junta. Southey, _History of the
Peninsular War_ (1832).

Her lover sinks--she sheds no ill timed tear;
Her chief is slain--she fills his fatal post;
Her fellows flee--she checks their base career;
The foe retires--she heads the sallying host.
... the flying Gaul,
Foiled by a woman's hand before a battered wall.

Byron, _Childe Harold_, i. 56 (1809).

=Sardanapa'lus=, king of Nineveh and Assyria, noted for his luxury and
voluptuousness. Arb[=a]c[^e]s, the Mede, conspired against him, and
defeated him; whereupon his favorite slave, Myrra, induced him to
immolate himself on a funeral pile. The beautiful slave, having set fire
to the pile, leaped into the blazing mass, and was burnt to death with
the king, her master (B.C. 817).--Byron, _Sardanapalus_ (1619).

=Sardanapa'lus of China= (_The_), Cheo-tsin, who shut himself up in his
palace with his queen, and then set fire to the building, that he might
not fall into the hands of Woo-wong (B.C. 1154-1122).

(Cheo-tsin invented the chopsticks, and Woo-wong founded the Tchow
dynasty.)

=Sardanapa'lus of Germany= (_The_), Wenceslas VI. or (IV.), king of
Bohemia and emperor of Germany (1359, 1378-1419).

=Sarell Gately.= Shrewd, "capable" girl who "lives out" on the Heybrook
farm.

"She was a young woman to take up responsibilities as she went
along. She liked them. She became naturally a part of whatever was
happening in her Troy; and wherever her temporary Troy might be,
there was pretty sure to be something happening."--A. D. T.
Whitney, _Odd or Even?_ (1880).

=Sassenach=, a Saxon, an Englishman. (Welsh, _saesonig_ adj. and
_saesoniad_ noun.)

I would, if I thought I'd be able to catch some of the Sassenachs
in London.--_Very Far West Indeed._

=Satan=, according to the _Talmud_, was once an archangel, but was cast
out of heaven with one-third of the celestial host for refusing to do
reverence to Adam.

In mediaeval mythology, Satan holds the fifth rank of the nine demoniacal
orders.

Johan Wier, in his _Praestigiis Daemonum_ (1564), makes Be[:e]lzebub the
sovereign of hell, and Satan leader of the opposition.

In legend