ary lore, Satan is drawn with horns and tail, saucer eyes, and
claws; but Milton makes him a proud, selfish, ambitious chief, of
gigantic size, beautiful, daring, and commanding. He declares his
opinion that it is "better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." Defoe
has written a _Political History of the Devil_ (1726).

_Satan_, according to Milton, monarch of hell. His chief lords are
Be[:e]lzebub, Moloch, Chemos, Thammuz, Dagon, Rimmon, and Belial. His
standard-bearer is Azaz'el.

He, above the rest
In shape and gesture proudly eminent,
Stood like a tower. His form had not yet lost
All her original brightness; nor appeared
Less than archangel ruined, and the excess
Of glory obscured ... but his face
Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care
Sat on his faded cheek ... cruel his eye, but cast
Signs of remorse.

Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. 589, etc. (1665).

[Asterism] The word Satan means "enemy;" hence Milton says:

To whom the arch-enemy,
... in heaven called Satan.

_Paradise Lost_, i. 81 (1665).

=Satanic School= (_The_), a class of writers in the earlier part of the
nineteenth century, who showed a scorn for all moral rules and the
generally received dogmas of the Christian religion. The most eminent
English writers of this school were Bulwer (afterwards Lord Lytton),
Byron, Moore, and P. B. Shelley. Of French writers: Paul de Kock,
Rousseau, George Sand, and Victor Hugo.

=Satire= (_Father of_), Archil[)o]chos of Paros (B.C. seventh century).

_Satire_ (_Father of French_), Mathurin Regnier (1573-1613).

_Satire_ (_Father of Roman_), Lucilius (B.C. 148-103).

=Satiro-mastix=, or _The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet_, a comedy by
Thomas Dekker (1602). Ben Jonson, in 1601, had attacked Dekker in _The
Poetaster_, where he calls himself "Horace," and Dekker "Cris'pinus."
Next year (1602), Dekker replied with spirit to this attack, in a comedy
entitled _Satiro-mastix_, where Jonson is called "Horace, junior."

=Saturday.= To the following English sovereigns from the establishment of
the Tudor dynasty, Saturday has proved a fatal day:--

HENRY VII. died Saturday, April 21, 1509.

GEORGE II. died Saturday, October 27, 1760.

GEORGE III. died Saturday, January 29, 1820, but of his fifteen children
only three died on a Saturday.

GEORGE IV. died Saturday, June 26, 1830, but the Princess Charlotte died
on a Tuesday