is to put toys and other little presents into a stocking or pillow-case late on Christmas Eve, when the children are asleep, and when they wake on Christmas morn each child finds in the stocking or bag hung at the bedside the gift sent by Santa Claus. St. Nicholas' day is December 6. The Dutch Kriss Kringle.
Saophron The girdle worn by Grecian women, whether married or not. The bridegroom loosed the bride's girdle, whence “to loose the girdle” came to mean to deflower a woman, and a prostitute was called “a woman whose girdle is unloosed” Gunh lusizwnov
Sapphics A Greek and Latin metre, so named from Sappho, the inventor. Horace always writes this
metre in four-line stanzas, the last being an Adonic. There must be a cæsura at the fifth foot of each of
the first three lines, which runs thus:-
The Adonic is-
The first and third stanzas of the famous Ode of
Horace (i. 22) may be translated thus, preserving the metre:-
He of sound life, who ne'er with sinners wendeth,
Needs no Maurish bow, such as malice bendeth,
Nor with poisoned darts life from harm defendeth,
Fuscus believe me.
Once I, unarmed, was in a forest roaming,
Singing love lays, when i' the secret gloaming
Rushed a huge wolf, which, though in fury foaming,
Did not aggrieve me. E.C.B.