The rule was that after three tragedies proper there came a play, still in tragic diction, with a traditional saga plot and heroic characters, in which the Chorus was formed by these Satyrs.

Certain characters of the heroic saga are, so to speak, at home with Satyrs and others are not.

It has the regular tragic diction, marked here and there (393, 756, 780, etc.) by slight extravagances and forms of words which are sometimes epic and sometimes over-colloquial; it has a regular saga plot, which had already been treated by the old poet Phrynichus in his Alcestis, a play which is now lost but seems to have been Satyric; and it has one character straight from the Satyr world, the heroic reveller, Heracles.

Heracles bringing back the dead is a datum of the saga.

A fine illustration of their conception of the unvarying duty of truthfulness is given in the saga of Fridthjof.

Jim Pink Staggs composed a saga relating the soldier's exploits in France, his assault on the jail to liberate Cissie, and his death.

historiography^, chronography^; historic Muse, Clio; history; biography, autobiography; necrology, obituary. narrative, history; memoir, memorials; annals &c (chronicle) 551; saga; tradition, legend, story, tale, historiette^; personal narrative, journal, life, adventures, fortunes, experiences, confessions; anecdote, ana^, trait.

On the tesselated slopes Of the Isle of Tapioca, Where the azure antelopes Haunt the valley of Avoca, Dwelt the maid Opoponax, Only child of Brex Koax, Far renowned in song and saga, Ruler of ten million blacks, Emperor of Larranaga.

And for that while, the figure went out of Manuel's saga, thus malodorously accompanied.

The men of Ness; the saga of Thorlief Coalbiter's sons.

Homicide Hank, the socking aaga [i.e. saga] of Henry Armstrong.

Einar Haugen (A); 14Nov69; R473384. Voyages to Vinland; the first American saga.

Folktale, fiction and saga in the Homeric epics.

Footprints on the frontier; saga of the Laramie region of Wyoming.

The Saga of Andy Burnett.

The men of Ness; the saga of Thorlief Coalbiter's sons.

The Forsyte saga.

The Forsyte saga.

Saga of saints.

The saga of the Bounty; its strange history as related by the participants themselves.

Einar Haugen (A); 14Nov69; R473384. Voyages to Vinland; the first American saga.

Upper Mississippi; a wilderness saga. Illustrated by David & Lolita Granahan.

MONTGOMERY, ALAN R. Long were the nights: the saga of PT squadron "X" in the Solomons.

The Saga of Halfaday Creek.

A moment's recollection of what is now perhaps the most familiar of Teutonic saga to the ordinary reader, the text of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," will give ample evidence of that mental attitude.