Chapter Solomon to Songs of Zion of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Solomon of France (The), Charles V., le Sage (1337, 1364–1380).

Louis IX. (i.e. St. Louis) is also called “The Solomon of France” (1215, 1226–1270).

Solon of French Prose (The), Balzac (1596–1655).

Solon of Parnassus (The). Boileau is so called by Voltaire, in allusion to his Art of Poetry (1636–1711).

Solon’s Happiness. Solon said, “Call no man happy till he is dead.”

Safer triumph is this funeral pomp
That hath aspired to Solon’s happiness,
And triumphs over chance.

(?) Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, act i. sc. 2 (1593)

Surely Solon did not mean that death is happiness, but that the vicissitudes of life are so great that “no man should holloa till he is out of the wood.”

Solsgrace (Master Nehemiah), a presbyterian pastor.—Sir W. Scott: Peveril of the Peak (time, Charles II.).

Solus, an old bachelor, who greatly wished to be a married man. When he saw the bright sides of domestic life, he resolved he would marry; but when he saw the reverse, he determined to remain single. Ultimately, he takes to the altar Miss Spinster.—Mrs. Inchbald: Every One has His Fault (1794).

Solus (Solomon), in Buckstone’s comedy of Leap Year (1850).

Solymæan Rout (The), the London rabble and rebels. Solymæa was an ancient name of Jerusalem, subsequently called Hiero-solyma, that is “sacred Solyma.” As Charles II. is called “David,” and London “Jerusalem,” the London rebels are called “the Solymæan rout” or the rabble of Jerusalem.

The Solymæan rout, well versed of old,
In godly faction, and in treason bold, …
Saw with disdain an Ethnic plot [popish plot] begun,
And scorned by Jebusites [papists] to be outdone.

Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, i. 5135, etc. (1681).

Solyman, king of the Saracens, whose capital was Nice. Being driven from his kingdom, he fled to Egypt, and was there appointed leader of the Arabs (bk. ix.). Solyman and Argantês were by far the most doughty of the pagan knights. The former was slain by Rinaldo (bk. xx.), and the latter by Tancred. —Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered (1575).

Sombragloomy, London, the inhabitants of which are Sombragloomians.

Somebody’s Luggage, a tale in the Christmas number of All the Year Round (1864), by Dickens. The head waiter is Christopher, whose story is very amusing.

Somnambulus. Sir W. Scott so signs The Visionary (political satires, 1819).—Olphar Hamst [Ralph Thomas]: Handbook of Fictitious Names.

Somo Sala (Like the father of), a dreamer of air-castles, like the milkmaid Perrette in Lafontaine. (See Count not, etc., p. 239.)

Sompnour’s Tale. (See Sumpnor’s Tale.)

Son. It is not always the case that a “wise father makes a wise son,” nor is it always the case that a son is “a chip of the old block.” The subject is a very long one, but the following examples will readily occur to the reader:—