SOLATIUM-SOLEN. SOLA'TIUM, in Scotch Law, means compensation for wounded feelings, and is something over and above the ordinary pecuniary value of the damage. In England, such a ground of damages is not in strict principle admitted, but in practice there is no substantial difference. SOLDER, an easily fusible alloy used for joining metals. Solders are of various kinds, suited to dif ferent metals. They always require to be used with a flux, such as borax, resin, chloride of zinc, salammoniac, &c. The following are the principal solders: Pewterers' solder-bismuth, 2 parts; lead, 4 parts; tin, 3 parts. This can be used for coarse work by the direct application of naked fire; but for fine work, requiring the protection of a mufflefurnace, the composition must be bismuth and lead, of each one part; tin, 2 parts. Plumbers' solder for coarse work-tin, 1 part; lead, 3 parts. For finer work-tin, 2 parts; lead, 1 part. Spelter solder12 parts zinc to 16 parts of copper. Soft spelter solder-equal parts of copper and zinc. When solders are applied in the common work of plumbers and tinmen, a tool called the soldering-iron is used: this is made red-hot, and forms a convenient means of applying fire direct to the solder and flux. Although called the soldering-iron, the portion of the tool to be heated must be of copper. In many manufactures, a flame produced by a mixture of atmospheric air and coal gas is used to melt the solder; and for fine work, such as jewellery, the common blowpipe is often used. SOLDIER is one who enters into an obligation to some chieftain or government to devote for a specified period his whole energies, and even if necessary his life itself, to the furtherance of the policy of that chief or government. The consideration may be immediate pay, or prospective reward: or the contract may be merely an act of loyal devotion. The acknowledgment of the service by the employer constitutes the man a recognised soldier, and empowers him to take life in open warfare, without being liable to the penalties of an assassin and a robber. The fact of being mercenary, that is, of receiving wages for killing and being killed, does not render a soldier's trade less honourable. He bears arms that others may be able to do with out them he is precluded by the exigences of military training from maintaining himself by peaceful occupation; and it is therefore but fair that those whom he protects should support him, and give him, over and above actual maintenance, reasonable wages for the continual risk of his life. If a man willingly enlist himself as a soldier in what he believes to be an unrighteous cause, it is an act of moral turpitude; but when once enlisted, the soldier ceases to be morally responsible for the justice or iniquity of the war he wages; that rests with his employer. Obedience, implicit and entire, is his sole virtue. The maxim is: The military force never deliberates, but always obeys. See ENLISTMENT, MARTIAL LAW, WAR, &c. : SOLDO. See SOLIDUS. SOLE (Solea), a genus of Flat-fishes (Pleuronectida), of an oblong form, with a rounded muzzle, which almost always advances beyond the mouth; the mouth twisted to the side opposite to that on which the eyes are situated, which is usually the right side, although individuals of the same species are found having the eyes and colour on the left side; the teeth very small, in both jaws, but only in the under part of the mouth (the side opposite to the eyes); the lateral line straight; pectoral fins on both sides; the dorsal and anal fins long, and extending to the tail, but distinct from the tail-fin. -The COMMON S. (S. vulgaris) is a highly esteemed fish, abundant on the British coasts where the bottom is sandy, and of which great quantities are brought to market. The London market is supplied chiefly from the south coast of England, the soles there attaining a larger size than those of more northern coasts. They are caught by trawling, very seldom with bait. The S. is in condition for the table during the whole year except five or six weeks in February and March, its spawning-time. The Common S. is found on all the coasts of Europe, except the most northern. It has been known to attain a size of 26 inches long, and almost 12 inches broad, weighing 9 pounds; but a .S. of less than half that weight is reckoned very large. The upper Common Sole (Solea vulgaris). side of the body is of an almost uniform dark brown; the scales small, rough to the touch, and ciliated at the edge; the lower side is white. The S. some times ascends rivers to a considerable distance from the sea, and seems to thrive at least as well in fresh as in salt water, a fact of which advantage has not yet been taken for the stocking of fresh-water ponds. It breeds freely enough in fresh water.The only other British species of true S. is the LEMON S. (S. pegusa), which is sometimes taken with the Common S. on the south coast of England, and more rarely in more northern parts. It is paler in colour than the Common S., and broader and thicker in proportion. It is equally esteemed for the table. The name S. is popularly extended to several genera recently separated from the true soles. In Brachirus, the dorsal and anal fins are united with the tail fin; but, as in Solea, there are pectorals on both sides. To this genus belongs the ZEBRA S. (B. zebrinus) of Japan, remarkable for the zebra-like stripes which cross its whole body.-In Monochirus, the pectoral fin is developed only on the upper side. To this genus belong the VARIEGATED S. (M. variegatus) and the LITTLE S. or SOLENETTE (M. linguatulus), both found on the British coasts, but of little importance, on account of their small size.-In the genera Achirus and Plagusia, of which there are no British species, the pectorals are wanting on both sides. any violation of the grammar or idiom of a language, SO'LECISM. A solecism is the term applied to or of the usages of society. It is said to be derived from the city of Soli in Cilicia, whose inhabitants spoke very bad Greek, in consequence of their intercourse with the Cilician natives, and provoked the fastidious Athenians to coin the epithet. SO'LEN, a genus of lamellibranchiate molluscs, the type of a family, Solenidae, remarkable for the wide gaping of the shell at both ends, and the large and muscular foot. In the genus S., the shell is remarkably elongated, its apparent length being, however, more strictly its breadth. From its form, the names RAZOR-SHELL and RAZOR-FISH are often given to it. The species are numerous, and inhabit the sands of all seas except in the coldest parts of the world. Some of the tropical species have shells of great beauty. The solens burrow in sand, making their hole straight down, and ascending and SOLENHOFEN LITHOGRAPHIC STONE-SOLEURE. descending by means of their foot, which is capable of being elongated and contracted to bore a passage for the animal, and to drag it through. They are used for food, and also by fishermen for bait. To obtain them, a hooked iron implement is used. Another Solen, or Razor-fish (S. siliqua). method is to drop a quantity of salt on the mouth of the hole, which causes them to come up, when they are quickly seized. The most common, and one of the largest British species, S. siliqua, is about an inch in length, and eight inches in breadth. It is perfectly straight. Another common British species, S. ensis, is curved like a sword. SOLENHOFEN LITHOGRAPHIC STONE, a famous deposit of limestone of Upper Oolite age, which from its fine-grained and homogeneous texture is admirably adapted for lithographic purposes. It occurs near Aichstadt in Bavaria, and has been extensively quarried since the invention of lithography. The quarrymen work upon the lines of stratification, which are beautifully parallel, and all the fossils are found upon the natural surfaces of the beds, and present an impression and cast in Remains of Archeopteryx in Solenhofen Stone. almost every instance. The rock is quarried to a depth of 80 or 90 feet. It is of special interest to the geologist from the singular assemblage of fossil remains which are preserved in it with wonderful minuteness. The most delicate tracery of the wings of the dragon-fly is often as perfect as in living specimens. The rock is of marine origin, and while lithologically it has a strong resemblance to the White Lias of Britain, its fossils correlate it to the Kimmeridge Clay. These are chiefly ammonites, nautili, crustacea, winged insects, fishes, and pterodactyles. But the most singular fossil is one which has only recently been brought to light. A single feather was first found, and some months after, the bones of a feather-covered animal, which was considered by its first describers to be a lizard, but Professor Owen has recently shewn, on incontrovertible grounds, that it is a true though very anomalous bird. The specimen which, with the exception of the head, is almost entire, is now in the British Museum. It has formed the subject of an elaborate memoir by Professor Owen, published in the Philosophical Transactions. He has named it Archaeopteryx macrura. It is certainly the oldest bird of which any remains have yet been found, but the rocks which contain the numerous ornithic footprints in Connecticut Valley (see ICHNOLOGY) are more ancient; the most careful examination has, indications other than the footprints. The Archa however, hitherto failed to discover in them any opteryx was about the size of a rook. The anomalous structure which induced the earlier observers to make it a reptile, and some that followed to imagine it as a transition form between the reptile and the bird, is the tail, which, instead of consisting of a few shortened vertebræ united together into a coccygean bone, as in all known birds, recent or fossil, was formed of twenty elongated vertebræ, each of which supported a pair of quill-feathers. But this departure from the bird type is not so anomalous as it at first sight appears, for in the early embryonic condition of the bird, the vertebræ are distinct and separate, and the anastomosis which invariably takes place in the subsequent development of the embryo, does not occur in the Archæopteryx, so that it may be considered to exhibit the temporary embryonic condition of the bird as a permanent structure; and that this is the true position of this singular fossil is further established by the existence of other features which are found only in birds. These are the ornithic structure of the wings and legs, the occurrence of feathers, which are confined to birds, and the existence of a merry-thought (furculum), which is found in no other class of animals. elevation on the surface of the slab containing the fossil is believed by many to be the cast of the interior of the skull, and it corresponds remarkably in size and form with the cast from the skull of a rook. An SO'LENT, the name of the western portion of the strait that intervenes between the Isle of Wight and the mainland of England. At Hurst Castle, which guards its entrance on the south-west, the S. is less than a mile in breadth; and along this narrow passage the tide flows with a rapidity which at certain times no boat can stem. The castle itself consists of a central tower or keep, surrounded by several smaller towers, and mounted with heavy guns. SOLEU'RE (Ger. Solothurn), a canton in the north of Switzerland, bounded on the W. and S. by Bern, and on the N. and E. by Basel and Aargau. Area, 288 sq. m.; pop. (1860) 69,263, mostly Roman Catholics. The greater portion of the canton is fertile and well cultivated, especially along the banks of the Aar. Even the rugged and hilly districts are sources of wealth on account of their fine pasturage. Besides grain, the principal products of S. are fruit, wine, flax, and cotton. SOLEURE-SOLICITOR TO THE TREASURY. Cherry-brandy is a very important article of trade. The manufacture of iron, glass, pottery, hosiery, and recently of watches, is carried on to a considerable extent.-S. entered the Swiss Confederation in 1481 along with Freiburg. Its constitution is liberal. The legislative body, or parliament, is the Grand Council, consisting of 105 members, of whom 55 are directly chosen by the people, 41 indirectly, and 9 by the Grand Council itself. The executive, or council of government, is under the presidency of a landamman. SOLEURE (Ger. Solothurn), capital of the can ton, is situated on the Aar, 16 miles north-northeast of Bern by railway. The scenery in its vicinity is among the loveliest in Switzerland, The Aar flows through the town, dividing it into two unequal parts, which are connected by two wooden bridges. The most notable building is the cathedral of St Ursinus, with a cupola and façade of Corinthian columns, reckoned the most costly cathedral in Switzerland. S. has some manufactures, but derives its chief industrial importance from its transit-trade. Pop. 5370.Near to S. are the baths of Weissenstein. SOLFATA'RA (Fr. Soufrière, Ger. Schwefelgrube or Schwefelsee), the Italian name for such volcanoes as, having become less active than volcanoes in an actual state of eruption, only exhale gases. The most notable of them are found in Italy, in the Antilles, in the interior of Asia, and in Java. The S. of Pozzuoli, near Naples, is an irregular plain, 1368 feet long, and 1310 feet broad, almost surrounded by broken hills of pumaceous tufa, the ancient walls of the crater. From the crevices of the rocks, steam or noxious gases, chiefly sulphuretted hydrogen, mixed with a minute quantity of muriatic acid and muriate of ammonia, exhale. In the cracks and fissures of the rocks, sulphur, alum, and sulphate of iron abound. The vapours exhaled are used as medicinal baths, and huts, constructed of boards, have been erected in which the baths may be obtained. The Soufrière of Morne-Garou, in the isle of St Vincent, Lesser Antilles, about three miles in circuit, and over 500 feet in depth, has in its centre a cone, the summit of which is covered with sulphur. SOLFE'GGIO, in Music, seven syllables, which are sometimes used as a nomenclature for the seven notes of the scale. In singing, the art of applying these syllables to the notes as an exercise for the learner, is called Solmisation. The syllables are ut (or do), re, mi, fa, sol, la, and si. The first six are the commencement of the lines of an ancient monkish hymn to John the Baptist, which had this peculiarity, that the first syllable of each line was sung to a note one degree higher than the first syllable of the line that preceded, so as to present the type of a scale : C D E F G A B C. These syllables may, however, according to the more modern practice of teachers in this country, be applied to other keys, with do always as the keynote, so as to express not the absolute pitch of a note, but its relation to the keynote; and thus used, they are thought to be of service to the learner in keeping prominently before him the principle that there is but one scale in music, which is raised or lowered according to the pitch of the key. Different variations in the way of using the syllables have recently given rise to various supposed short and easy modes of teaching singing, the best-known of which is Mr Curwen's system of 'Tonic Solmisation,' where the ordinary notation of the staff, with its lines and spaces, is entirely rejected, and a notation substituted which is formed of the solfeggio syllables, used to express not pitch but relation to the keynote. One disadvantage of this and similar schemes is the entire withdrawal of the direct indication of the pitch of the sounds to the eye, by the notes ascending as the sounds ascend, which is so beautiful a feature of the common notation. And even if it be granted that the first rudiments of music can, as has been asserted, be taken up with remarkable ease by the pupil who learns on the tonic sol-fa system, it is undeniable that as soon as he comes in contact with notes of different lengths, or begins to modulate from one key to another, he is beset with serious difficulties. There is, in addition, the further objection to the system, that the pupil thus taught is shut out from the whole world of musical literature, a disadvantage which is not compensated by having a few elementary difficulties smoothed away, which experience shews that children of the most mediocre capacity can overcome. SOLFERI'NO, a village of Northern Italy, province of Brescia, 20 miles north-west of Mantua, with 1400 inhabitants. It stands on a hill, and has a tower called the Spy of Italy (Spia d'Italia), from which the whole plain of Lombardy may be seen. There, in 1796, the French conquered the Austrians. On June 24, 1859, S. was again the scene of an overwhelming victory obtained by the French and Italians over the Austrians. SOLICITOR. See ATTORNEYS. SOLICITOR-GENERAL, the name given to The Solicitorone of the law-officers of the crown. general of England has powers similar to those of the Attorney-general (q. v.), to whom he gives aid in discharging his functions. During the absence of the Attorney-general, he may do every act and execute every authority of that officer. He is, ex officio, one of the Commissioners of Patents. The Solicitor-general of Scotland is one of the crown counsel, next in dignity to the Lord Advocate (see ADVOCATE, LORD), and exercising all his functions along with him. His office cannot be traced further back than the Union. Like the Lord Advocate, he has the privilege of pleading within the bar. All proclamations for the observance of days of public fasting and thanksgiving are addressed to the Solicitor-general. SOLICITOR TO THE TREASURY, an officer who acts as attorney for the government in all legal proceedings. He has also to act as solicitor for SOLIDUNGULA-SOLO. the three secretaries of state, the Privy Council Office, the Board of Trade, the Mint, the War Office, the Stationery Office, and for all the other principal departments for which no solicitor is specially appointed. SOLIDUNGULA. See EQUIDE. SOLIDUS, the name by which the old Roman aureus' (equivalent to £1, 18. 1d., according to the present value of gold) was known after the time of Alexander Severus; but during the reign of Constantine the Great, its value was diminished in the ratio of 8:5, and so remained till the end of the empire. The weight of these later solidi was fixed at th of an ounce, the gold being 23 carats fine, and the alloy mostly native silver. The 'solidus,' or 'solidus aureus,' was adopted by the Franks under the Merovingians and Carlovingians (at 87 to the Roman pound) till the time of Pepin, who suppressed it; but another solidus of silver, or 'solidus argenteus-theth of the libra or pound-which had been used only as a money of account, was soon after made a coin. In after-times, this sol,' or 'sou,' like all other coins, underwent an infinity of variations in fineness and value (see LIVRE). On the introduction of the decimal system (1793) into France, the sou was abolished, and a piece of 5 centimes (th of a franc) substituted, but the name continued in common use, and the old sous were retained in circulation. The solidus also appears in the soldo, which was a coin in use in Northern and Central Italy, and was essentially the same with the sou. SO'LINGEN, a town of Prussia, province of the Rhine, and government of Düsseldorf, capital of a circle of the same name, is situated on a height 13 miles east-south-east of Düsseldorf, and not far from the river Wupper. It is a very old place, and has long been famous for its steel and iron ware manufactures, especially sword-blades, helmets, cuirasses, knives, scissors, which are exported to all parts of the world, and rival the excellence of English wares. In 1857, the town and circle of S. employed 8048 workmen, who produced from 400,000 to 500,000 sword-blades yearly, from 1,500,000 to 2,000,000 dozen knives, and nearly 1,000,000 pair of scissors. The total value of the steel-wares amounted to about 5,000,000 thalers. Pop. 10,684. SOLITAIRE (Pezophaps), a genus of birds of the Dodo (q. v.) family (Didina), but differing from the dodos in a smaller bill and longer legs. Like the dodos, the only species of this genus, of the existence of which there is any evidence (P. solitaria), seems to be now extinct, and to have become extinct in very recent times. It inhabited the island of Rodriguez, an island about 15 miles long by 6 broad, situated about 300 miles to the east of Mauritius, and appears to have been peculiar to that small and fonely island, where it was abundant at the beginning of the 18th century. Rodriguez was uninhabited till 1691, when a colony of French Protestant refugees settled on it, under the command of François Leguat, who, in his Voyages et Aventures, has left an interesting and trustworthy Solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria). account of the solitaire. He describes it as a large bird, the males sometimes weighing 45 lbs.; taller than a turkey, the neck a little longer in proportion, and carried erect; the head of the male without comb or crest, that of the female with something like a widow's peak above the bill; the wings small, and the bird incapable of flying, but only using the wings to flap itself or to flutter when calling for its mate, or as a weapon of offence or defence; the bone of the wing being thickened at the extremity so as to form a round mass, about the size of a musket-bullet, under the feathers, and to increase the force of the blow given by it; a roundish mass of feathers instead of a tail. He further describes the plumage as very full and beautiful, not a feather out of its place, so there can have been no feathers with unconnected webs, as in the ostrich. He says the bird is called S. because it is very seldom seen in flocks. He tells us that the bird is with difficulty caught in the forests, but easily on open ground, because it can be outrun by a man; and that its flesh is very good to eat. But the S. seems to have completely disappeared from Rodriguez, which is now a British settlement. Bones have been found, although not yet abundantly, and some are preserved in the Paris Museum, some in the Andersonian Museum, Glasgow. in Leguat's work, and its general accuracy is The figure here given is derived from a rude cut attested by its correspondence with small figures introduced in a landscape and two maps in that work. The name S. was originally given to a species of dodo inhabiting Bourbon, and applied by Leguat to this bird, in a mistaken belief of its being the same. See Strickland and Melville on the Dodo and its Kindred. SOLITAIRE, a species of game or rather puzzle, which, as the name denotes, is played by only The ap one person. paratus for the game consists of a round or octagonal flat board, indented with 33 or 37 as in the figure, and 33 hemispherical hollows, or 37 balls, one in each hollow. The process of the game consists in removing one ball from the board, and then, having created a vacancy, capturing one of the balls adjoining by causing the one behind to leap over it into the vacant hollow; there are now two vacancies, and the game is continued in the same manner by capturing ball after ball, till only one remains, when the game is won. Should more than one be left, and they be so isolated as not to be liable to capture by each other, the game is lost. This puzzle may be solved in an immense number of ways; one of the prettiest modes consists in removing the central ball, and so capturing the others that the last ball shall be in the centre. Solitaire. SOLLER, a small town and seaport of the Balearic Isles, in Majorca, 14 miles north of Palma It exports oranges and wine, and contains 7000 inhabitants. SOLMISATION. See SOLFEGGIO. SOLO, a term used in musical compositions of several parts, whether vocal or instrumental, to indicate those voices or instruments that are to perform alone or in a more prominent manner, as SOLOFRA-SOLOMON. soprano solo, violino solo. The plural, soli, is used when two or more voices or instrumental parts are to be performed together, such parts, of course, never being doubled.-A composition for a single instrument accompanied is also termed a solo. SOLO'FRA, a small city of Southern Italy, province of Avellino. Pop. 6245. It is situated on the Apennines, and is surrounded by wooded mountains. SO'LOMON (Hebr. Shělômô, Salomon, Salomo, Suleimán, derived from shalom, peace: Peaceful, like Germ. Friedrich), the second son of David and Bathsheba; successor of the former on the throne of the Israelitish empire for forty years (1015-975 B. C.). Nothing is known of his youth except that he was probably educated by Nathan (or Jehiel). Equally uncertain is the age at which he succeeded to the crown of his father. That he was older than twelve or fourteen years, as some traditions tell us, seems certain. The way in which his succession to the throne during the lifetime of his father was brought about, to the exclusion of his elder brother Adonijah, is not undeserving of the name of coup d'état, which has been bestowed upon it (see the Scripture narrative). Having, by the execution of Adonijah and the leaders of his faction, secured his dominion against internal foes, he, with complete disregard of the Mosaic law, set himself to seek foreign alliances, and with this view married as his principal wife the daughter of Pharaoh, probably of Psusenes (Vaphres?), of the twenty-first dynasty. Besides her, however, he had a vast number of wives-700 princesses,' and 300 'concubines'-the greatest part of whom were recruited from nations with whom an alliance had been strictly prohibited. Having inherited fabulous wealth, and further adding to it enormously from his own multifarious revenues, so that 'silver was nothing accounted of in his days,' it became necessary that a new organisation corresponding to this unheard-of splendour should be introduced. Accordingly, we hear of Princes,' i. e., great officers of state, not before heard of. The two counsellors of David's time disappear, in order probably to make room for a whole body of legal advisers; the prophets are no longer to be found among the dignitaries of state, but new military charges are created instead. The immense accumulation of treasure also allowed the execution of a number of public works in Jerusalem, which now first assumed the magnificence and station of a capital. A new wall with fortified towers was erected around it; and the Queen's Palace the House of the Forest of Lebanon'-with a long hall joined to it by a cedar porch, called the Tower of David,' outside of which a thousand golden shields were suspended, and within which the king sat, in all his imperial splendour, to pass judgment, were built under his immediate orders. His banquets, at which all the vessels were of gold; his stables, with their four (or forty) thousand stalls; his gardens and parks and summer retreats, were such as to dazzle even eastern fancy. Twelve commissaries, distributed in the different provinces, had each in his turn to furnish the means of sustaining this digious household. The dominion of S. extended from Thapsacus, on the Euphrates, to Gaza on the Mediterranean. The country was in the profoundest state of peace; the treasures accumulated by David appeared inexhaustible; and the popularity of the king, who listened to the meanest of his subjects, and gave judgment according to that wisdom, for which he had asked in his vision at Gibeon, in preference to any other gift, and which has remained pro There is some discrepancy among investigators about this date; the beginning of his reign being fixed variously at 1009, 1025, 990, &c. proverbial from his day to ours, was naturally at first very great. Everything, moreover, was done to develop and increase the national wealth and welfare. The rich internal resources were developed, and commercial relations of the most extensive nature established. Through the port established at Ezion-Geber, at the head of the Gulf of Elath, an outlet was gained to the Indian Ocean; and the alliance with Phoenicia, then under the sway of Hiram, gave an energetic impulse to these foreign expeditions. Manned with Tyrian sailors, the Israelite fleets went to 'Ophir,' and brought back, in exchange for their own exportations, gold and silver, apes and peacocks, ivory and spices; and the rest of the strange and precious produce of India, Africa, Spain, and other regions, possibly even our own coasts. In the his accession, commenced the building of the Temple The fame of S. could not but spread far and near. The splendour of his court and reign, heightened by his personal qualities, his wisdom and eruditionfor he was not only the wisest but also the most learned of men-brought embassies from all parts to Jerusalem to witness his magnificence, and to lay gifts of tribute at his feet. The queen of Sheba's expedition and presents are well known; and as many Arab kings made him annual presents of a no less splendid nature, his income from different sources was calculated, in round numbers, at the enormous sum of 666 golden talents. That people of Moses, which was to know no other wealth than flocks and the fruits of the soil, had suddenly become a people of wealthy merchants, of soldiers, and of courtiersand it did not profit by the change, chiefly through the bad influence of the king himself and his court. The army and the public buildings absorbed the for the purpose of the true worship of Jehovah, S. resources of the provinces. In the Temple, erected sacrificed three times a year; but nevertheless, to please his concubines, he allowed, and perhaps himself indulged in, the rites of polytheism on the heights, thereby setting the worst example to his subjects, sufficiently eager already to worship foreign deities. His exaggerated polygamy fostered immorality and licentiousness among the people; and, worst of all, the wise and gentle monarch, as his treasure got exhausted, began, toward the end of his reign, to lay the yoke, which hitherto had lain only on his Canaanite subjects, upon the Israelites themselves. And he thus became, to all intents and purposes, an eastern despot-selling part of his dominion to raise money, and trying to break the spirit of the nation by forced services and corporal chastisements. Left by the 'prophets,' probably since his open and revolting infidelity with regard to the national worship, his advisers were chiefly insolent young |