lopement of Helen was
the cause of a national war between the Greek cities and the allied
cities of Troy; and the defilement of Lucretia was the cause of a
national war between Rome and the allied cities under Por'sena. (3) The
contest between Greece and Troy terminated in the victory of Greece, the
injured party; and the contest between Rome and the supporters of
Tarquin terminated in favor of Rome, the injured party. (4) In the
Trojan war, Paris, the aggressor, showed himself before the Trojan
ranks, and defied the bravest of the Greeks to single combat, but when
Menelaos appeared, he took to flight; and so Sextus rode vauntingly
against the Roman host, but when Herminius appeared, fled to the rear
like a coward. (5) In the Trojan contest, Priam and his sons fell in
battle; and in the battle of Lake Regillus, Tarquin and his sons were
slain.

[Asterism] Lord Macaulay has taken the "Battle of Lake Regillus" as the
subject of one of his _Lays of Ancient Rome_. Another of his lays,
called "Horatius," is the attempt of Pors[)e]na to re-establish Tarquin
on the throne.

=Seyd=, pacha of the Morea, assassinated by Gulnare (2 _syl._), his
favorite concubine. Gulnare was rescued from the burning harem by
Conrad, "the Corsair." Conrad, in the disguise of a dervise, was
detected and seized in the palace of Seyd, and Gulnare, to effect his
liberation, murdered the pacha.--Byron, _The Corsair_ (1814).

=Seyton= (_Lord_), a supporter of Queen Mary's cause.

_Catherine Seyton_, daughter of Lord Seyton, a maid of honor in the
Court of Queen Mary. She appears at Kinross village in disguise.

_Henry Seyton_, son of Lord Seyton.--Sir W. Scott, _The Abbot_ (time,
Elizabeth).

=Sforza=, of Lombardy. He with his two brothers (Achilles and
Palam[=e]d[^e]s) were in the squadron of adventurers in the allied
Christian army.--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575).

[Asterism] The word Sforza means "force," and, according to tradition,
was derived thus: Giacomuzzo Attendolo, the son of a day laborer, being
desirous of going to the wars, consulted his hatchet, resolving to
enlist if it stuck fast in the tree at which he flung it. He threw it
with such _force_ that the whole blade was completely buried in the
trunk (fifteenth century).

_Sforza_ (_Ludov'ico_), duke of Milan, surnamed "the More," from _mora_,
"a mulberry" (because he had on his arm a birth-stain of a mulberry
color). Ludovico was dotingly fond of his bride, Marcelia,