Chapter Saragossa to Satyr of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook

Satire (Father of), Archilochos of Paros (B. C. seventh century).

Father of Roman Satire, Mathurin Regnier (1573–1613).

Father of Roman Satire, Lucilius (B. C. 148-103).

Satires by Pope (1733–1738). His masterpieces, which gained him the name of the “English Horace.”

(The Satires of Dr. Donne (1719), and those of bishop Hall in six books, three of which are Toothless Satires and three Biting Satires, are pronounced by Pope to be the best in the language.)

Satiro-mastix or The Untrussing of the Humorous Poet, a comedy by Thomas Dekker (1602). Ben Jonson, in 1601, had attacked Dekker in The Poetaster, where he calls himself “Horace,” and Dekker “Cris’pinus.” Next year (1602) Dekker replied with spirit to this attack, in a comedy entitled Satiro-mastix, where Jonson is called “Horace, junior.”

Satis House, the abode of Miss Haversham, in Dickens’s Great Expectations. The name was given to a house near Boley Hill, Rochester, where Richard Watts, in 1573, entertained queen Elizabeth. When the host apologized for the smallness of the house, the queen replied, Satis (it is enough); and the house was so called.

Saturday, a fatal day to the following English sovereigns from the establishment of the Tudor dynasty:—

HENRY VII. died Saturday, April 21, 1509.

GEORGE II. died Saturday, October 25, 1760.

GEORGE III. died Saturday, January 29, 1820, but of his fifteen children only three died on a Saturday.

GEORGE IV. died Saturday, June 26, 1830, but the princess Charlotte died on a Tuesday.

PRINCE ALBERT died Saturday, December 14, 1861. The duchess of Kent, the duchess of Cambridge, and the princess Alice died on a Saturday also.

William III. (March 8, 1702), Anne (August 1, 1714), and George I. all died on a Sunday; William IV. (June 20, 1837) on a Tuesday.

Saturn, son of Heaven and Earth. He always swallowed his children immediately they were born, till his wife Rhea, not liking to see all her children perish, concealed from him the birth of Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto; and gave her husband large stones instead, which he swallowed without knowing the difference.

Much as old Saturn ate his progeny;
For when his pious consort gave him stones
In lieu of sons, of these he made no bones.
   —Byron: Don Juan, xiv. 1 (1824).

Saturn, an evil and malignant planet.

He is a genius full of gall, an author born under the planet Saturn, a malicious mortal, whose pleasure consists in hating all the world.—Lesage: Gil Blas, v. 12 (1724).

The children born under the sayd Saturne shall be great jangeleres and chyders…and they will never forgyve tyll they be revenged of theyr quarell.—

Ptholomeus: Compost.

Satyr. T. Woolner calls Charles II. “Charles the Satyr.”

Next flared Charles Satyr’s saturnalia
Of lady nymphs.
   —My Beautiful Lady.