3. Daughter of Cepheus of Tegea. Her father de- clined to join Hercules in the war against the Hippo- cocintides, because he feared an invasion of the Argives during his absence. Hercules therenjion gave to Ster- ope a brazen lock of Medusa's hair, which he had him- self obtained from Minerva. This, displayed in the face of an advancing foe, would transform every warrior into stone. Cepheus was thus induced to j<iin in a war in which he and his twenty sons lost their lives (Apollod. ii,7,3).
4. A daughter of Acastus, whose career is interwoven with the history of Peleus (Apollod. iii, 13. 3~).
5. A daughter of Porthaon, and mother of the Sirens (Apollod. 1,7, 10).
Sterry, John, a Baptist minister, was born in Providence, K. I., in 17()6, and studied in Brown Uni- versity, hut did not take the fidl cnll(>giate course. About 1790 he removed to Norwich, Conn., wliere be established himself as printer, author, and ()ublisher. Jlr. Sterry was converted soon after his removal to Nor- wich, and joined the Baptist Ciiiinh there, and on Dec. 25, 1800, he was ordained its minister. The Church he served was very poor, in no year paying him a salary exceeding $100, so that he continued his mechanical
and literary pursuits. He died in Norwich Nov. 5, 1823. He published, with his brother Consider, The American Youth (1790, 8vo): — Arithmetic for the Use of Schools (1795): — in conjunction with the Rev. Wm. Northrup, JJirine ,Songs : — and in conjunction with Epaphras Porter he edited and published The True Re- publican, a newspaper (June, 1804). See Sprague, .in- nals (fthe A mer. Pulpit, vi, 407.
SteilCO (in Latin Steuchus and Engiihinvs). AfJOSTi- NO, a learned Italian, was born in 1496 at (Jul^bio (in L'mbria), and admitted in 1513 into the congregation of the Canons of St. Saviour, where he left off his sur- name Guido. For a long time he gained a scanty live- lihood by teaching the Oriental languages, theology, and antiquities; but in 1525 he was sent to Venice and put in charge of a rich library formed in the convent of St. Anthony of Castello. He afterwards became prior of his order at Gubbio, and in 1538 was made bish- op of Chisamo, in Candia; but soon returned to Rome, where in 1542 he succeeded the celebrated Alessandro as praifect of the Vatican lii)rary. He there wrote many works on sacred antiquities and exegesis (for which see Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.), and final- ly died at A'enice in 1549.
Steudel, Johann Christian Fkiedrtch. doctor and professor of theology at Tubingen, was born Oct. 25, 1779, at Esslingen, in Wlirtemberg. He was re- ceived into the gymnasium at Stuttgart when in his sixteenth year, and while there began the study of He- brew and laid the foundation for the Old-Test, studies of his later days. In 1797 he was admitted to the the- ological institution at Tiibingen, where Storr's tenden- cy was then represented by F'latt, Silsskind, and others. He afterwards served two years as vicar at Oberessling- en, and then returned to Tubingen as tutor. Schmir- rer's lectures on the Arabic language now stimulated Steudel to prepare himself to teach Oriental languages, and he availed himself, in 1808. of the aid of the gov- ernment and of viscount Von Palm to undertake the study of Arabic and Persian at Paris under the direction of De Sacy, Langles, Chezy, etc. On his return in 1810 he was, however, at first employed in the pulpit, being made deacon at Canstatt and Tubingen ; but an aca- demical career was opened for him by the opportunity of giving private tuition to backward students. In 1815 he became a member of the theological faculty, though he retained his position in the ministry. In 1822 he addetl the charge of the early service in the town church and an inspectorship in the seminary to his engagements, and in 1826 he became senior of the faculty and first inspector. His lectures at first were confined to the books of the Bible, particularly of the Old Test.; after a time he included the Oriental lan- guages in his course; and from 1826 he <lelivered reg- ular lectures on dogmatics and apologetics. He was likewise a diligent and fruitful writer, though not in the field of Old-Test, literature where he was most at home. He preferred to write on systematic theology. A few academical essays, of which that of 18,30, entitled Vete- risne Testam. lAbris fn.iit Xotio Manifestiab Occulto Dis- tingvendi Xumini.i, is the most important, and several reviews and articles in Bengel's Archiv, and in the Tii- binger Zeitschr.fiir Theologie (founded by him in 1828), constitute all that he published in his own special line of work. His lectures on Old-Test, theology were pul)- lished after his death by Oehler, in 1840 (Berlin). His interest in systematic theology proliably grew out of the importance he attached to ipicstions relating to the- ological principles. In 1814 he wrote Ctber die lialt- barkeit d. Glaubens an geschichtliche, ho/iere Offenbnrung Gottes. It was a matter of conscience with him not to ignore any important theological scheme, but rather to test it by the rule of unalterable truth; and he conse- (picntly fought his way from the beginning to the end of his (-areer as a theologian. He broke a lance with nearly every prominent theologian of his time in the