Sciradium, a promontory of Attica, on the Saronicus sinus.
Sciras, a name of Ægina. Minerva was also called Sciras. Strabo, bk. 9.
Sciressa, a mountain of Arcadia. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 5.
Sciron, a celebrated thief in Attica, who plundered the inhabitants of the country, and threw them down from the highest rocks into the sea, after he had obliged them to wait upon him and to wash his feet. Theseus attacked him, and treated him as he treated travellers. According to Ovid, the earth as well as the sea refused to receive the bones of Sciron, which remained for some time suspended in the air, till they were changed into large rocks called Scironia Saxa, situate between Megara and Corinth. There was a road near them which bore the name of Sciron, naturally small and narrow, but afterwards enlarged by the emperor Adrian. Some suppose that Ino threw herself into the sea, from one of these rocks. Sciron had married the daughter of Cychreus, a king of Salamis. He was brother-in-law to Telamon the son of Æacus. Ovid, bk. 7, Metamorphoses, li. 444; Heroides, poem 2, li. 69.—Strabo, bk. 9.—Mela, bk. 2, ch. 13.—Pliny, bk. 2, ch. 47.—Diodorus, bk. 4.—Hyginus, fable 38.—Propertius, bk. 3, poem 14, li. 12.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 44.—Seneca, Quæstiones naturales, bk. 5, ch. 17.
Scirus, a village of Arcadia, of which the inhabitants are called Sciritæ.——A plain and river of Attica, near Megara. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 36.
Scissis, a town of Spain. Livy, bk. 21, ch. 60.
Scodra, a town of Illyricum, where Gentius resided. Livy, bk. 43, ch. 20.
Scolus, a mountain of Bœotia.——A town of Macedonia, near Olynthus. Strabo.
Scombrus, a mountain of Thrace, near Rhodope.
Scopas, an architect and sculptor of Ephesus, for some time employed in making the mausoleum which Artemisia raised to her husband, and which was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world. One of his statues of Venus was among the antiquities with which Rome was adorned. Scopas lived about 450 years before Christ. Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 43, &c.—Horace, bk. 4, ode 8.—Vitruvius, bk. 9, ch. 9.—Pliny, bk. 34, ch. 8; bk. 36, ch. 5.——An Ætolian who raised some forces to assist Ptolemy Epiphanes king of Egypt, against his enemies Antiochus and his allies. He afterwards conspired against the Egyptian monarch, and was put to death, B.C. 196.——An ambassador to the court of the emperor Domitian.