=Syntax= (_Dr._), a simple-minded, pious, hen-pecked clergyman, green as grass, but of excellent taste and scholarship, who left home in search of the picturesque. His adventures are told by William Coombe in eight-syllable verse, called _The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque_ (1812.) _Dr. Syntax’s Horse_ was called Grizzle, all skin and bone. =Synter´esis=, Conscience personified. On her a royal damsel still attends, And faithful counsellor, Synter´esis. Phineas Fletcher, _The Purple Island_, vi. (1633). =Syphax=, chief of the Arabs who joined the Egyptian armament against the crusaders. “The voices of these allies were feminine, and their stature small.”--Tasso, _Jerusalem Delivered_, xvii. (1575). _Syphax_, an old Numidian soldier in the suite of Prince Juba, in Utĭca. He tried to win the prince from Cato to the side of Cæsar; but Juba was too much in love with Marcia (Cato’s daughter) to listen to him. Syphax, with his “Numidian horse,” deserted in the battle to Cæsar, but the “hoary traitor” was slain by Marcus, the son of Cato.--Addison, _Cato_ (1713). =Syrinx=, a nymph beloved by Pan, and changed at her own request into a reed, of which Pan made his pipe.--_Greek Fable._ _Syrinx_, in Spenser’s _Eclogue_, iv., is Anne Boleyn, and “Pan” is Henry VIII. (1579). Tusser has a poem on _Thriftiness_, twelve lines in length, and in rhyme, every word of which begins with _t_ (died 1580). Leon Placentius, a Dominican, wrote a poem in Latin hexameters, called _Pugna Porcorum_, 253 lines long, every word of which begins with _p_ (died 1548). The thrifty that teacheth the thriving to thrive, Teach timely to traverse, the thing that thou ’trive, Transferring thy toiling, to timeliness taught, This teacheth thee temp’rance, to temper thy thought. Take Trusty (to trust to) that thinkest to thee, That trustily thriftiness trowleth to thee. Then temper thy traveil, to tarry the tide; This teacheth thee thriftiness, twenty times tryed. Take thankfull thy talent, thank thankfully those That thriftily teacheth [_? teach thee_] thy time to transpose. Troth twice to be teached, teach twenty times ten, This trade thou that takest, take thrift to thee then. _Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry_, xlix. (1557). =Taau=, the god of thunder. The natives of the Hervey Islands believe that thunder is produced by the shaking of Taau’s wings.--John Williams, _Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands_, 109 (1837). =Tabakiera=, a magic snuff-box which, upon being opened, said, _Que quieres?_ (“What do you want?”); and, upon being told the wish, it was there and then accomplished. The snuff-box is the counterpart of Aladdin’s lamp, but appears in numerous legends slightly varied (see for example Campbell’s _Tales of the West Highlands_, ii. 293-303, “The Widow’s Son”).--Rev. W. Webster, _Basque Legends_, 94 (1876).