=Snubbin= (_Serjeant_), retained by Mr. Perker for the defence in the famous case of “Bardell _v._ Pickwick.” His clerk was named Mallard, and his junior, Phunky, “an infant barrister,” very much looked down upon by his senior.--C. Dickens, _The Pickwick Papers_ (1836). =Snuffim= (_Sir Tumley_), the doctor who attends Mrs. Wititterly.--C. Dickens, _Nicholas Nickleby_ (1838). =Snuffle= (_Simon_), the sexton of Garratt, and one of the corporation. He was called a “scollard, for he could read a written hand.”--S. Foote, _Mayor of Garratt_, ii. 1 (1763). =Snug=, the joiner, who takes part in the “lamentable comedy” of _Pyramus and Thisbe_, played before the duke and duchess of Athens “on their wedding day at night.” His _rôle_ was the “lion’s part.” He asked the manager (Peter Quince) if he had the “lion’s part written out, for,” said he, “I am slow of memory;” but being told he could do it extempore, “for it was nothing but roaring,” he consented to undertake it.--Shakespeare, _A Midsummer Night’s Dream_ (1592). =Sobri´no=, one of the most valiant of the Saracen army, and called “The Sage.” He counselled Agrămant to entrust the fate of the war to a single combat, stipulating that the nation whose champion was worsted should be tributary to the other. Rogēro was chosen for the pagan champion, and Rinaldo for the Christian army; but when Rogero was overthrown, Agramant broke the compact. Sobrino was greatly displeased, and soon afterwards received the rite of Christian baptism.--Ariosto, _Orlando Furioso_ (1516). Who more prudent than Sobrino?--Cervantes, _Don Quixote_ (1605). =Soc´ratês= (_The English_), Dr. Johnson is so called by Boswell (1709-1784). Mr. South’s amiable manners and attachment to our Socrătês at once united me to him.--_Life of Johnson_ (1791). =Sofronia=, a young Christian of Jerusalem, the heroine of an episode in Tasso’s _Jerusalem Delivered_ (1575). The tale is this: Aladine, king of Jerusalem, stole from a Christian church an image of the Virgin, being told by a magician that it was a palladium, and, if set up in a mosque, the Virgin would forsake the Christian army, and favor the Mohammedan. The image was accordingly set up in a mosque, but during the night was carried off by some one. Aladine, greatly enraged, ordered the instant execution of all his Christian subjects, but, to prevent this massacre, Sofronia accused herself of the offence. Her lover, Olindo, hearing that Sofronia was sentenced to death, presented himself before the king, and said that he and not Sofronia was the real offender; whereupon the king ordered both to instant execution; but Clorinda, the Amăzon, pleading for them, obtained their pardon, and Sofronia left the stake to join Olindo at the altar of matrimony.--Bk. ii.