SAPPHO OF TOULOUSE 
 
 
formation) was carried captive, and religion, 
being mixed up with hypocrisy, degene- 
rated into superstition, but the rural popu- 
lation adhered to the simplicity of the 
Protestant faith.-Spenser, Fairy Queen, 
i. 2 (1590). 
 
   Sansonetto, a Christian    regent of 
 Mecca, vicegerent of Charlemagne.-Ari- 
 osto, Orlando Furioso (1516). 
 
   Santa Klaus (1 syl.), the Dutch name 
 of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of youth. 
 
   Santiago [Sent.yah'.go], the war-cry of 
 Spain; adopted because St. James (Sant 
 lago) rendered, according to tradition, sig- 
 nal service to a Christian king of Spain in 
 a battle against the Moors. 
 
   Santiago for Spain. This saint was 
James, son of Zebedee, brother of John. 
He was beheaded, and caught his head in 
his hands as it fell. The Jews were as- 
tonished, but when they touched the 
body they found it so cold that their hands 
and arms were paralyzed. - Francisco 
Xavier, Afiales de Galicia (1733). 
  Santiago's Head. When Santiago went 
te Spain in his marble ship, he had no 
head on his body. The passage took 
seven days, and the ship was steered by 
the "presiding hand of Providence."- 
Espafia Sagrada, xx. 6. 
  Santiago had two heads. One of his 
heads is at Braga, and one at Compostella. 
  Santiago lead the armies of Spain. Thirty- 
eight instances of the interference of this 
saint are gravely set down as facts in the 
Chronicles of Galicia, and this is super- 
added: "These instances are well known, 
but I hold it for certain that the appear- 
ances of Santiago in our victorious armies 
have been much more numerous, and in 
fact that every victory obtained by the 
 
 
Spaniards has been really achieved by this 
great captain." Once when the rider on 
the white horse was asked in battle who 
he was, he distinctly made answer, "I am 
the soldier of the King of kings, and my 
name is James.'-Don Miguel Erce Gime- 
nez, Armas i Triunfos del Reino de Galicia, 
648-9. 
  he true name of this saint was Jacobo.... 
  We have first shortened Santo Jacobo into Santo 
  Jac'o. We clipped it again into Sant' Jaco, and 
  by changiiig the J into I and the c into g, we 
  get Sant-lago. In household names we convert 
  Iago into 'iago or Diago, which we soften into 
Diego.-Ambrosio de Morales, Coronica General 
de Espaiia, ix. 7 sect. 2 (1586). 
 
   Santons, a body of religionists, also 
called Abdals, who pretended to be in- 
spiredtvith the most enthusiastic raptures 
of divine love. They were regarded by 
the vulgar as saints. Olearius, Reisebe- 
schreibung, i. 971 (1647). 
 
  Sapphi'ra, a female liar.-Acts v. 1. 
  She is called the village Sapphira.-Crabbe. 
 
  Sappho, Greek poetess of the sixth cen- 
tury B.C., called "The Tenth Muse." Frag- 
ments of her verse remain which are very 
beautiful: She was the victim of unre- 
quited love, and leaped to her death from 
the Leucadian Rock into the sea. 
 
  Sappho (The English), Mrs. Mary D. 
Robinson (1758-1800). 
 
  Sappho (The French), Mdlle. Scud~ri 
(1607-1704). 
 
  Sappho (The Scotch), Catherine Cock- 
burn (1679-1749). 
 
  Sappho of Toulouse, Cl6mence Isaure 
(2 syl.), who instituted, in 1490; Les Jeux 
 
 
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