on the point of taking the veil among Emmelia's sisterhood, and just
before the day of renunciation, El[)e][=e]mon, her father's freed slave,
who loved her, sold himself to the devil, on condition of obtaining her
for his wife. He signed the bond with a drop of his heart's blood, and
carried about with him a little red spot on his bresst,[TN-180] as a
perpetual reminder of the compact. The devil now sent a dream to Cyra,
and another to her father, which caused them to change their plans; and
on the very day that Cyra was to have taken the veil, she was given by
St. Basil in marriage to Eleemon, with whom she lived happily for many
years, and had a large family. One night, while her husband was asleep,
Cyra saw the blood-red spot; she knew what it meant, and next day
Eleemon told her the whole story. Cyra now bestirred herself to annul
the compact, and went with her husband to St. Basil, to whom a free and
full confession was made. Eleemon was shut up for a night in a cell, and
Satan would have carried him off, but he clung to the foot of a
crucifix. Next day Satan met St. Basil in the cathedral, and demanded
his bond. St. Basil assured him the bond was illegal and invalid. The
devil was foiled, the red mark vanished from the skin of Eleemon, a
sinner was saved, and St. Basil came off victorious.--Amphilochius,
_Life of St. Basil_. (See Rosweyde, _Vitae Patrum_, 156-8.)

[Asterism] Southey has converted this legend into a ballad of nine lays
(1829).

=Sinon=, the crafty Greek, who persuaded the Trojans to drag the Wooden
Horse into their city.--Virgil, _AEneid_, ii.

Dant[^e], in his _Inferno_, places Sinon, with Potiphar's wife, Nimrod,
and the rebellious giants, in the tenth pit of Mal[^e]bolg[^e].

=Sin Saxon.= Sprightly, sparkling personage, who appears, first as a saucy
girl, then, as a vivacious young matron, in several of A. D. T.
Whitney's books. She marries Frank Sherman.--A. D. T. Whitney, _Leslie
Goldthwaite_ and _The Other Girls_.

=Sintram=, the Greek hero of the German romance, _Sintram and His
Companions_, by Baron Lamotte Fouqu['e].

_Sintram's Sword_, Welsung.

=Sio'na=, a seraph, to whom was committed the charge of Bartholomew, the
apostle.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, iii. (1748).

=Siph'a=, the guardian angel of Andrew, the brother of Simon
Peter.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, iii. (1748).

=Si'phax=, a soldier, in love with Princess Calis, sister of Astorax, king
of Paphos. The prin