sponsible only to the king. The satraps, in their sev- eral provinces, employed themselves in the maintenance of order and the regulation of affairs; and they also col- lected and remitted to the court the stipulated tribute, clear of all charges for local government and for the maintenance of the troops (Xenoph. 6'y?-o/). viii,C, § 1-3). In later times this prudent separation of powers became neglected in favor of royal princes and other great per- sons (Xenoph. Anah. i, 1, § 2), who were intrusted with the military as well as civil power in their governments — to which cause may be attributed the revolt of the younger Cyrus, and the other rebellions and civil wars, which, by weakening the empire, facilitated its ultimate subjugation by Alexander" (Kitto). See Persia.
Satrapes, in Greek mythology, was a name under which a bronze statue was erected to Neptune, first at Samicum, and afterwards in Elis, which was constantly covered with a robe of woollen, another of linen, and a third of byssus.
Satshi, in Ilindii mythology, was the wife of the sun-god Indra.
Satterlee, Ai-rnEn Brown, a Baptist missionary, was born at Sheldon, N. Y., Oct. 26, 1823, and was a graduate of Brown Universitj', in the class of 1852. He pursued his theological studies at the Rochester Theo- logical Seminary, and received his appointment as a missionary of the American Baptist Missionary Union in 1853, and was set apart for the Arracan mission. He reached the field of his labors, Akyab, in Sept., 1855. lie was not permitted to perform much service for his IMaster. At the early age of thirtv-two he died of the cholera, July 1,185G. (J. C. S.)
Satterpai, in Persian mythology, is the heaven of the fixed stars supposed to be situated below the heaven of the moon, and presided over by twelve genii of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Sattiawodi, in Hindu mythology, is a daugliter of the king Dassarayen, who was first married to Paras- sen and afterwards to Sandanen.
Saturday {Saturn's day) was, next to the Lord's day, held by the ancient Christians in great veneration, and, especially in the Eastern parts, honored with all the public solemnities of religion. This observance of the day was, doubtless, out of respect to the feelings of the Jews, who were generally the first converts to the Christian faith, and who still retained great reverence for the Sabbath. The "Western Church regarded it as a fast, but the Greek Church observed it as a festival, one Sabbath (Saturday) only excepted. This was called the Great Sabbath, between Good-Friday and Easter- daj', when our Saviour \a\ buried, upon which account it was kept as a fast throughout the whole Church. Athanasius {Horn, de Semcnte, torn. 1, p. lOGO) tells us that they assembled on Saturdays — not that they were infected with Judaism, but only to Avorship Jesus Christ, the Lord of the Sabbath. So far as concerns public wor- ship, Saturday was made in all things conformable to that of the Lord's da}% The Scriptures were read, as on the Lord's day, sermons preaehe(l, and the communion administered. A preference, however, was given to the Lord's day, for there were no laws forbidtling lawsuits, pleadings, public shows, and games on tliat day. Nor were men obliged to abstain wholly from bodily labor, but, on the contrary, the Council of Laodicea (August. Ep. 118) has a canon forbidding Christians to Judaize, or rest on the Sabbath, any further than was necessary for public worship. The reason for the Latin Church keep- ing Saturday as a fast is given by pope Innocent in his epistle to the bishop of Eugubium : '' If we commemo- rate Christ's resurrection not only at Easter, but every Lord's day, and fast upon Friday because it was the day of his passion, we ought not to i)ass by Saturday, whicli is the middle-time between the days of grief and joy." He therefore concludes that Saturday ought to be kept as a fast {Innocent. Kp. ad Deciuni Eiifjuhin. c. 4). This
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was the general practice, and yet in Italy itself it was otherwise at ;\lilan, where Saturday was a festival. The Saturdays in Ember weeks are called " in XII Lections," from the six (iospels read both in Latin and Greek. See Bingham, Antiq. of the Christ. Church, p. 1137 sq. ; Eiddle, Christ, Antiq. p. 652 sq. ; Walcott, Sacred Ar- chceol. s. V.