=Sol´yman=, 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). =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.) =Son of Be´lial= (_A_), a wicked person, a rebel, an infidel. Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial: they knew not [i.e., _acknowledged not_] the Lord.--_1 Sam._ ii. 12. =Son of Consolation=, St. Barnabas of Cyprus (first century).--_Acts_ iv. 36. =Son of Perdition= (_The_), Judas Iscariot.--_John_ xvii. 12. _Son of Perdition_, Antichrist.--_2 Thess._ ii. 3. =Son of a Star= (_The_), Barcochebas, or Barchochab, who gave himself out to be the “star” predicted by Balaam (died A.D. 135). There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.--_Numb._ xxiv. 17. =Son of the Last Man.= Charles II. was so called by the parliamentarians. His father, Charles I., was called by them “The Last Man.” =Son of the Rock=, echo. She went. She called on Armar. Nought answered but the son of the rock.--Ossian, _The Songs of Selma_. =Sons of Phidias=, sculptors. =Sons of Thunder=, or _Boanerges_, James and John, sons of Zebedee.--_Mark_ iii. 17. =Sonderby= (_John_), a school-teacher who, after dallying with an evil temptation all through one summer, shakes himself free of it, and resolves “to make a man of himself, to go where human life is thick and the push keen and strong, to earn a place there by using the talent given him, and to work with hope, courage and belief, with a heart open to his humankind.”--Bliss Perry, _The Broughton House_ (1890). =Song.= _The Father of Modern French Songs_, C. F. Panard (1691-1765). _Song._ _What! all this for a song?_ So said William Cecil, Lord Burghley, when Queen Elizabeth ordered him to give Edmund Spenser £100 as an expression of her pleasure at some verses he had presented to her. When a pension of £50 a year was settled on the poet, Lord Burghley did all in his power to oppose the grant. To this Spenser alludes in the lines following:-- O, grief of griefs! O, gall of all good hearts! To see that virtue should despisèd be Of him that first was raised for virtuous parts; And now, broad-spreading like an aged tree, Lets none shoot up that nigh him planted be. Oh, let the man of whom the Muse is scorned, Alive nor dead be of the Muse adorned! Spenser, _The Ruins of Time_ (1591).