urns the great Seatonian prize.

Byron, _English Bards and Scotch Reviewers_ (1809).

=Sebastes of Mytile'ne= (4 _syl._), the assassin in the "Immortal
Guards."--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_ (time, Rufus).

=Sebastian=, a young gentleman of Messalin[^e], brother to Viola. They
were twins, and so much alike that they could not be distinguished
except by their dress. Sebastian and his sister, being shipwrecked,
escaped to Illyria. Here Sebastian was mistaken for his sister (who had
assumed man's apparel), and was invited by the Countess Olivia to take
shelter in her house from a street broil. Olivia was in love with Viola,
and thinking Sebastian to be the object of her love, married
him.--Shakespeare, _Twelfth Night_ (1614).

_Sebastian_, brother of Alonso, king of Naples, in _The Tempest_ (1609).

_Sebastian_, father of Valentine and Alice.--Beaumont and Fletcher,
_Mons. Thomas_ (1619).

_Sebastian_ (_Don_), king of Portugal, is defeated in battle and taken
prisoner by the Moors (1574). He is saved from death by Dorax, a noble
Portuguese, then a renegade in the court of the emperor of Barbary. The
train being dismissed, Dorax takes off his turban, assumes his
Portuguese dress, and is recognized as Alonzo of Alcazar.--Dryden, _Don
Sebastian_ (1690).

The quarrel and reconcilation[TN-166] of Sebastian and Dorax
[_alias Alonzo of Alcazar_] is a masterly copy from a similar scene
between Brutus and Cassius [_in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar_].--R.
Chambers, _English Literature_, i. 380.

_Don Sebastian_, a name of terror to Moorish children.

Nor shall Sebastian's formidable name
Be longer used to still the crying babe.

Dryden, _Don Sebastian_ (1690).

=Sebastian I. of Brazil=, who fell in the battle of Alcazarquebir in 1578.
The legend is that he is not dead, but is patiently biding the fulness
of time, when he will return, and make Brazil the chief kingdom of the
earth. (See BARBAROSSA.)

=Sebastoc'rator= (_The_), the chief officer of state in the empire of
Greece. Same as Protosebastos.--Sir W. Scott, _Count Robert of Paris_
(time, Rufus).

=Sebile= (2 _syl._), la Dame du Lac, in the romance called _Perceforest_.
Her castle was surrounded by a river, on which rested so thick a fog
that no one could see across it. Alexander the Great abode with her a
fortnight to be cured of his wounds, and King Arthur was the result of
this amour (vol. i. 42).

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