nd a chapel was built there to mark the site. (See
SLEEPER.)

_The Seven Sleepers turning on their sides._ William of Malmesbury says
that Edward the Confessor, in his mind's eye, saw the seven sleepers
turn from their right sides to their left, and (he adds) whenever they
turn on their sides, it indicates great disasters to Christendom.

Woe, woe to England! I have seen a vision:
The seven sleepers in the cave of Ephesus
Have turned from right to left.

Tennyson, _Harold_, i. 1.

=Seven Wise Masters.= Lucien, the son of Dolopathos, was placed under the
charge of Virgil, and was tempted in manhood by his step-mother. He
repelled her advances, and she accused him to the king of taking
liberties with her. By consulting the stars it was discovered that if he
could tide over seven days his life would be spared; so seven wise
masters undertook to tell the king a tale each, in illustration of rash
judgments. When they had all told their tales, the prince related, under
the disguise of a tale, the story of the queen's wantonness; whereupon
Lucien was restored to favor, and the queen was put to death.--Sandabar,
_Parables_ (contemporary with King Courou).

[Asterism] John Rolland, of Dalkeith, has rendered this legend into
Scotch verse. There is an Arabic version by Nasr Allah (twelfth
century), borrowed from the Indian by Sandabar. In the Hebrew version by
Rabbi Joel (1270), the legend is called _Kalilah and Dimnah_.

=Seven Wise Men= (_The_).

One of Plutarch's _brochures_ in the _Moralia_ is entitled "The Banquet
of the Seven Wise Men," in which Periander is made to give an account of
a contest at Chalcis between Homer and Hesiod, in which the latter wins
the prize, and receives a tripod, on which he caused to be engraved this
inscription:

This Hesiod vows to the Heliconian nine,
In Chalcis won from Homer the divine.

=Seven Wise Men of Greece= (_The_), seven Greeks of the sixth century
B.C., noted for their maxims.

BIAS. His maxim was, "Most men are bad" ("There is none that doeth good,
no, not one," _Psalm_ xiv. 3): ~Hoi pleious kakoi~ (fl. B.C. 550).

CHILO. "Consider the end:" ~Telos horan makrou biou~ (fl. B.C. 590).

CLEOB[=U]LOS. "Avoid extremes" (the golden mean): ~Ariston metron~ (fl.
B.C. 580).

PERIANDER. "Nothing is impossible to industry" (patience and
perseverance overcome mountains): ~Melet[^e] to pan~ (B.C. 665-585).

PITT[)A]COS. "Know thy opportunity" (seize