Sage of Monticello (The), Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, whose country seat was at Monticello.
From Vernon’s weeping willow,
And from the grassy pall which hides
The Sage of Monticello…
Virginia, o’er thy land of slaves
A warning voice is swelling.
—Whittier: Voices of Freedom (1836).
Sage of Samos (The), Pythagoras, a native of Samos (B.C. 584-506).
Sages (The Seven). (See Seven Wise Men Of Greece, p. 987.)
Sagittary, a monster, half man and half beast, described as “a terrible archer, which neighs like a horse, and with eyes of fire which strike men dead like lightning.” Any deadly shot is a sagittary. —Guido delle Colonna (thirteenth century): Historia Troyana Prosayce Composita (translated by Lydgate).
Appals our numbers.
—Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida (1602).
(See also Othello, act i. sc. 1, 3. The barrack is so called from the figure of an archer over the door.)
Sagramour le Desirus, a knight of the Round Table. (See Launcelot du Lac and Morte d’ Arthur.)
Sahira (Al), one of the names of hell.—Sale: Al Korân, lxxix. notes.
Sailor King (The), William IV, of Great Britain (1765, 1830–1837).