friend of Etan (the supposed son of Zamti, the
mandarin).--Murphy, _The Orphan of China_ (1759).

=Sel'ima=, daughter of Bajazet, sultan of Turkey, in love with Prince
Axalla, but promised by her father in marriage to Omar. When Selima
refused to marry Omar, Bajazet would have slain her; but Tamerlane
commanded both Bajazet and Omar to be seized. So every obstacle was
removed from the union of Selima and Axalla.--N. Rowe, _Tamerlane_
(1702).

_Selima_, one of the six Wise Men from the East, led by the guiding star
to Jesus.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, v. (1771).

=Se'lith=, one of the two guardian angels of the Virgin Mary, and of John
the Divine.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, ix. (1771).

=Sellock= (_Cisly_), a servant girl in the service of Lady and Sir
Geoffrey Peveril, of the Peak.--Sir W. Scott, _Peveril of the Peak_
(time, Charles II.).

=Selvaggio=, the father of Sir Industry, and the hero of Thomson's _Castle
of Indolence_.

In Fairy-land there lived a knight of old,
Of feature stern, Selvaggio well y-clept;
A rough, unpolished man, robust and bold,
But wondrous poor. He neither sowed nor reaped;
No stores in summer for cold winter heaped.
In hunting all his days away he wore--
Now scorched by June, now in November steeped,
Now pinched by biting January sore.
He still in woods pursued the libbard and the boar.

Thomson, _Castle of Indolence_, ii. 5 (1745).

=Sem'ele= (3 _syl._), ambitious of enjoying Jupiter in all his glory,
perished from the sublime effulgence of the god. This is substantially
the tale of the second story of T. Moore's _Loves of the Angels_. Liris
requested her angel lover to come to her in all his angelic brightness;
but was burnt to ashes as she fell into his embrace.

For majesty gives nought to subjects, ...
A royal smile, a guinea's glorious rays,
Like Semel[^e], would kill us with its blaze.

Peter Pindar [Dr. Wolcot], _Progress of Admiration_ (1809).

=Semi'da=, the young man, the only son of a widow, raised from the dead by
Jesus, as he was being carried from the walls of Nain. He was deeply in
love with Cidli, the daughter of Jairus.

He was in the bloom of life. His hair hung in curls on his
shoulders, and he appeared as beautiful as David, when, sitting by
the stream of Bethlehem, he was ravished at the voice of
God.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, iv. (1771).

=Semir'a