E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Stati’ra.
A stock name of those historical romances which represented the fate of empires as turning on the effects produced on a crack-brained lover by some charming Manda’na or Statira. In La Calprenède’s Cassandra, Statira is represented as the perfection of female beauty, and is ultimately married to Oroonda’tes.
