Scottish Hogarth (The), David Allan (1744-1796).
Scottish Homer (The), William Wilkie, author of an epic poem in rhyme, entitled The Epigoniad (1753).
Scottish Solomon (The), James VI. of Scotland, subsequently called James I. of England (1566, 1603-1625).
*** The French king called him far more aptly, “The Wisest Fool in Christendom.”
Scottish Terriers (The), Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841).
Scottish Theoc´ritos (The), Allan Ramsay (1685-1758).
Scotus. There were two schoolmen of this name: (1) John Scotus Erigena, a native of Ireland, who died 886, in the reign of King Alfred; (2) John Duns Scotus, a Scotchman, who died 1308. Longfellow confounds these two in his Golden Legend when he attributes the Latin version of St. Dionysius, the Areopagite, to the latter schoolman.
And done into Latin by that Scottish beast,
Erigena Johannes.
Longfellow, The Golden Legend (1851).
Scourers, a class of dissolute young men, often of the better class, who infested the streets of London, in the seventeenth century, and thought it capital fun to break windows, upset sedan-chairs, beat quiet citizens, and molest young women. These young blades called themselves at different times, Muns, Hectors, Scourers, Nickers, Hawcabites, and Mohawks or Mohocks.
Scourge of Christians (The), Noureddin-Mahmûd, of Damascus (1116-1174).