Scopium, a town of Thessaly.
Scordisci and Scordiscæ, a people of Pannonia and Thrace, well known during the reign of the Roman emperors for their barbarity and uncivilized manners. They were fond of drinking human blood, and they generally sacrificed their captive enemies to their gods. Livy, bk. 41, ch. 19.—Strabo, bk. 7.—Florus, bk. 3, ch. 4.
Scoti, the ancient inhabitants of Scotland, mentioned as different from the Picts. Claudian, de Tertio Consulatu Honorii, li. 54.
Scotīnus, a surname of Heraclitus. Strabo, bk. 15.
Scotussa, a town of Thessaly at the north of Larissa and of the Peneus, destroyed by Alexander of Pheræ. Livy, bk. 28, chs. 5 & 7; bk. 36, ch. 14.—Strabo, bks. 7 & 9.—Pausanias, bk. 6, ch. 5.——Another in Macedonia. Pliny, bk. 4, ch. 10.
Scribonia, a daughter of Scribonius, who married Augustus after he had divorced Claudia. He had by her a daughter, the celebrated Julia. Scribonia was some time after repudiated, that Augustus might marry Livia. She had been married twice before she became the wife of the emperor. Suetonius, Augustus, ch. 62.——A woman who married Crassus.
Scriboniānus, a man in the age of Nero. Some of his friends wished him to be competitor for the imperial purple against Vespasian, which he declined. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 4, ch. 39.——There were also two brothers of that name, who did nothing without each other’s consent. Tacitus, Histories, bk. 4, ch. 41.
Scribonius, a man who made himself master of the kingdom of Bosphorus.——A physician in the age of Augustus and Tiberius.——A man who wrote annals, A.D. 22. The best edition of Scribonius is that of Patavium, 4to, 1655.——A friend of Pompey, &c.
Scultenna, a river of Gaul Cispadana, falling into the Po, now called Panaro. Livy, bk. 41, chs. 12 & 18.—Pliny, bk. 3, ch. 16.
Scylacēum, a town of the Brutii, built by Mnestheus at the head of an Athenian colony. As Virgil has applied the epithet Navifragum to Scylaceum, some suppose that either the poet was mistaken in his knowledge of the place, because there are no apparent dangers to navigation there, or that he confounds this place with a promontory of the same name on the Tuscan sea. Servius explains this passage by supposing that the houses of the place were originally built with the shipwrecked vessels of Ulysses’ fleet—a most puerile explanation! Virgil, Æneid, bk. 3, li. 553.—Strabo, bk. 6.