=Sun-Steeds.= Brontê (“thunder”) and Amethēa (“no loiterer”), Æthon (“fiery red”) and Pyroïs (“fire”); Lampos (“shining like a lamp”), used only at noon; Philogēa (“effulgence”), used only in the westering course. ⁂ Phaĕton (“the shining one”) and Abraxas (the Greek numeral for 365) were the horses of Aurora, or the morning sun. =Sun´ith=, one of the six Wise Men of the East led by the guiding star to Jesus. He had three holy daughters.--Klopstock, _The Messiah_, v. (1771). =Sunshine of St. Eulalie´= (3 _syl._), Evangeline. Sunshine of St. Eulălie was she called, for that was the sunshine Which, as the farmers believed, would load their orchards with apples. Longfellow, _Evangeline_, i. 1 (1849). =Super Grammat´icam=, Sigismund, emperor of Germany (1366, 1411-1437). At the council of Constance, held 1414, Sigismund used the word _schisma_ as a noun of the feminine gender (_illa nefanda schisma_). A prig of a cardinal corrected him, saying “‘Schisma,’ your highness, is neuter gender;” when the kaiser turned on him with ineffable scorn, and said, “I am king of the Romans, and what is grammar to me?” [_Ego sum rex Romanus et super grammaticam._]--Carlyle, _Frederick the Great_ (1858). =Superstitions about Animals.= ANT. When ants are unusually busy, foul weather is at hand. Ants never sleep.--Emerson, _Nature_, iv. Ants lay up food for winter use.--_Prov._ vi. 6-8; xxx. 25. Ants’ eggs are an antidote to love. ASS. The mark running down the back of an ass, and cut at right angles over the shoulders, is the cross of Christ impressed on the animal because Christ rode on an ass in His triumphant entry into Jerusalem. Three hairs taken from the “cross” of an ass will cure the whooping-cough, but the ass from which the hairs are plucked will die. The ass is deaf to music, and hence Apollo gave Midas the ears of an ass, because he preferred the piping of Pan to the music of Apollo’s lute. BARNACLE. A barnacle broken off a ship turns into a Solan goose. Like your Scotch barnacle, now a block, Instantly a worm, and presently a great goose. Marston, _The Malecontent_ (1604). BASILISK. The basilisk can kill at a distance by the “poison” of its glance. There’s not a glance of thine But, like a basilisk, comes winged with death. Lee, _Alexander the Great_, v. 1 (1678). BEAR. The cub of a bear is licked into shape and life by its dam. So watchful Bruin forms with plastic care Each growing lump and brings it to a bear. Pope, _The Dunciad_, i. 101 (1728). BEAVER. When a beaver is hunted, it bites off the part which the hunters seek, and then, standing upright, shows the hunters it is useless to continue the pursuit. [Æsop tells a similar story of a civet-cat.]--Eugenius Philalethes, _Brief Natural History_, 89.