schola, ae, f., leisure, leisure for learning; place of learning, school.
scīlicet [scīre + licet], adv., plainly, of course, doubtless.
[scindō, ere, scidī, scissus], to cut, tear, rend, split.
ab—abscindō, ere, scidī, scissus, to cut or tear off, hew off.
sciō, īre, scīvī, scītus, to know, understand; with infin., to know how.
[Scīpiō, ōnis], m., the name of one of the most illustrious families of Rome, belonging to the Cornelian gens.
1. P. Cornēlius Scīpiō, consul 218 B.C.; defeated by Hannibal at the Ticinus and the Trebia; killed, with his brother Cn., in Spain, in 212.
2. P. Cornēlius Scīpiō Āfricānus Māior, son of (1), born B.C. 237; commanded in Spain 210-206; consul in 205; defeated Hannibal at Zama in 202. He died about 183 B.C.
3. L. Cornēlius Scīpiō, brother of (2), consul in B.C. 190. After defeating Antiochus at Magnesia, he received the cognomen Asiāticus.
4. P. Cornēlius Scīpiō Āfricānus Minor, captured Carthage, B.C. 146; took Numantia, in Spain, 133; died in 129.