CORNELIUS
Scipio Nasica, son of No.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
C.
i.
28, but there is an anachronism
he was accused in B. c. 187, after his conquest of in the last cited passage of Appian. )
Antiochus. He was one of the many distinguished 24. P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO NASICA SERAPIO,
men, who sued for the censorship in B. c. 184, but the son of No. 23, was a fierce and stiff-necked
was defeated by M. Porcius Cato. Hence Pliny aristocrat, and is chiefly known by the repeated
speaks of him (H. N. vii. 34), as bis repulsa mention of him in Cicero's writings, as the leader
notatus a populo. In B. c. 183 and 182 he was of the senate in the murder of Tib. Gracchus. He
engaged as one of the triumviri in settling a Latin is first mentioned in B. c. 149, when he was sent
colony at Aquileia. The last time he is mentioned along with Cn. Scipio Hispallus [No. 28), to
is in B. c. 171, when he was one of the advocates demand from the Carthaginians the surrender of
appointed by the Spanish deputies to bring to trial their arms (Appian, Pun. 80). He was unsuc-
the Roman governors who had oppressed them. cessful in his application for the aedileship, but
Scipio Nasica is mentioned both by Cicero and was consul in B. C. 138, with D. Junius Brutus.
Pomponius as a celebrated jurist, aud the latter In consequence of the severity with which he
writer adds, that a house was given to him by the and his col que conducted the levy of troops,
siate in the Via Sacra, in order that he might be they were thrown into prison by C. Curiatius,
more easily consulted (Liv. xxix. 14. xxxi. 49, the tribune of the plebs. It was this Curiatius
xxxiii. 25, xxxiv. 42, 43, xxxv. 1, 10, 24, xxxvi. who gave Nasica the nick-name of Serapio,
1, 2, 37, &c. , xxxviii. 58, xxxix. 40, 55, xl. 34, from his resemblance to a dealer in sacrificial
xliii. 2; Diod. Eacerpta, p. 605, ed. Wess. ; Val. animals, or some other person of low rank, who
Max. vii. 5. $2; Cic. de Fin. v. 22, de Harusp. was called by this name ; but though given
Resp. 13, de Orat. ii. 68, iii. 33 ; Pomponius, de him in derision, it afterwards became his dis-
Origine Juris in Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. § 37, where tinguishing surname (Liv. Epit. 55 ; Val. Max.
he is erroneously called Caius ; Zimmern, Ge-ix. 14. § 3 ; Plin. H. N. vii. 10). In B. C. 133,
schichte des Römischen Privatrechts, vol. i. p. 273. ) when the tribes met to re-elect 'Tib. Gracchus to
23. P. CORNELIUS Scipio Nasica CORCULUM, I the tribunate, and the utmost confusion prevailed
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SCIPIO.
SCIPIO.
Benators.
19;
in the forum, Nasica called upon the consuls to mistake in Valerius Maximus of C. for On. than
save the republic ; but as they refused to have that he should have borne a praenomen which
recourse to violence, he exclaimed, “ As the does not occur elsewhere in the family of the
consul betrays the state, do you who wish to obey Scipios.
the laws follow me," and so saying rushed forth 29. Cx. CORNELIUS Scipio HISPALLUS, the
from the temple of Fides, where the senate was son of No. 28, is mentioned only by Valerius
sitting, followed by the greater number of the Maximus, who relates (vi. 3. $ 3), that he had
The people gave way before them, and obtained the province of Spain by lot, but was
Gracchus was assassinated as he attempted to prevented by the senate from going thither on ac-
escape (Appian, B. C. i. 16; Plut. Tib. Gracch. count of the disgraceful life he had previously led.
for further particulars see Vol. II. p. 293). 30. CORNELIUS Scipio SALUTIO, an obscure
In conseqnence of his conduct on this occasion person, whom Caesar is said to have carried with
Nasica became an object of such detestation to the him in his African campaign, B. C. 46, and to
people, that the senate found it advisable to send have placed in front of the army, because it was
him on a pretended mission to Asia, although he believed that a Scipio would always conquer in
was pontifex maximus, and ought not, therefore, Africa, and he had to fight against Metellus
to have quitted Italy. He did not venture to Scipio, the general of the Pompeian troops.
return to Rome, and after wandering about from Others, however, thought that he did it as a kind
place to place, died soon afterwards at Pergamum. of joke, to show his contempt of Metellus Scipio.
(Plut. Tib. Gracch. 21 ; Cic. pro Flacc. 21 ; and Pliny relates that he was called Salutio from his
the other passages of Cicero in Orelli's Onomast. resemblance to a mimus of this name.
Dion
Tull. vol. ii. p. 191. )
Cassius calls him Salatton. (Suet. Caes. 59; Plut.
25. P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, son of No. Caes. 52 ; Dion Cass. xlii. 58; Plin. H. N. vii.
24, was consul B. C. lll, with L. Calpurnius 12, xxx. 2. )
Bestia, and remained in Italy, while his colleague 31. P. CORNELIUS Scipio, married Scribonia,
had the conduct of the war against Jugurtha. who was afterwards the wiſe of Augustus, and by
He died during his consulship. He is described whom he had two children (Nos. 32 and 33). His
by Diodorus as a man who was inaccessible to descent is uncertain, and we have no particulars of
bribery throughout his life, though he lived in an his life. Suetonius says (Octav. 62) that both the
age of general corruption. Cicero speaks with husbands of Scribonia, before she was married to
praise of the affability of his address, in which Augustus, were men of consular rank ; but this
his father was deficient ; and although he spoke statement makes the matter still more uncertain,
neither much nor often in public, he was equal to since the last Scipio who obtained the consulship
any of his contemporaries in the purity of his was L. Scipio Asiaticus in B. C. 83. (No. 20. )
Latin, and surpassed them in wit and humour. 32. P. CORNELIUS Scipio, son of No. 31 and
(Sall. Jug. 27 ; Diod. Excerpt. p. 606, ed. Wess. ; Scribonia, afterwards the wife of Augustas, was
Cic. de Off. i. 30, Brut. 34, pro Planc. 34, and consul B. c. 16 with L. Domitius Ahenobarbus.
Schol. Bob. p. 259, ed. Orelli. )
(Dion Cass. liv. 19; Propert iv. 1). 67. )
26. P.
CORNELIUS Scipio Nasica, son of No. 33. Cornelia, daughter of No. 31 and Scri-
25, praetor B. c. 94, is mentioned by Cicero as one bonia, married Paulus Aemilius Lepidus, censor
of the advocates of Sex. Roscius of Ameria. He B. c. 22. (LEPIDUS, No. 19. )
married Licinia, the second daughter of L. Crassus, 34. CORNELIUS Scipio, legatus of Junius Blae-
the orator. (Cic. pro Sex. Rosc. 28, Brut. 58. ) sus, proconsul of Africa, under whom he served in
He had two sons, both of whom were adopted, the campaign against Tacfarinus in A. D. 22 (Tac.
one by his maternal grandfather L. Crassus in his Ann. iii. 74). He may, perhaps, bave been the
testament, and is therefore called L. Licinius son of No. 32.
Crassus Scipio [CRASSUS, No. 26]; and the other 35. CORNELIA, who married L. Volusiús Sa-
by Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius, consul B. C. 80, turninus, consul suffectus A. D. 3, and who was
and is therefore called Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius the niother of Q. Volusius Saturninus, consul A. D.
Scipio. This Scipio became the father-in-law of 56 (Plin. H. N. vii. 12. s. 14), may have been the
Cn. Pompey the triumvir, and fell in Africa in sister of No. 34. [SATURNINUS, VOLUSIUS, Nos.
B. C. 46. His life is given elsewhere. [METEL- | 2 and 3. ]
LUS, No. 22. ]
36. P. CORNELIUS Scipio, perhaps the son of
27. CN. CORNELIUS Scipio HISPALLUS, son 34, was the husband of Poppaea Sabina, who
of L. Scipio (No. 11), who was a brother of the two was put to death by Messalina, the wife of the
Scipios who fell in Spain. Hispallus was praetor emperor Claudius. He did not venture to ex.
B. c. 179, and consul B. c. 171, with Q. Petillius press any disapprobation of the deed, and showed
Spurinus. He was struck with paralysis during his subserviency at a later period by proposing
his consulship, and died at Cumae in the course of in the senate that thanks should be returned
the year. (Liv. xl. 44, xli. 14, 16. )
to Pallas, the freedman of Claudius, because he
28. CN. CORNELIUS Scipio HISPALLUS, son of allowed himself to be regarded as one of the
No. 27, was sent along with Scipio Nasica Serapio servants of the emperor, although he was descended
[No. 24), in B. c. 149, to demand from the Car- from the kings of Arcadia. He was consul under
thaginians the surrender of their arms (Appian, Nero in A. D. 56, with L. Volusius Saturninus,
Pun. 80). He was praetor, B. c. 139, when he who was probably his first cousin. (Tac. Ann.
published an edict that all Chaldaeans (i. e. astro-xi. 2, 4, xii. 53, xiii. 25; Plin. H. N. vii. 12.
Jogers) should leave Rome and Italy within ten s. 14. )
days (Val. Max. i. 3. $2). Valerius Maximus (l. c. ) The lives of the Scipios are given with accuracy
calls him Caius ; whence Pighius makes him the by Haakh in the Real-Encyclopädie der classichen
brother of the Hispallus mentioned by Appian, Alterthumswissenschaft, to which we have been much
but it is far more probable that there should be a ) indebted in dawing up the previous account
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SCIRONIDES.
SCOPAS.
753
SCIRAS or SCLE’RIAS (Exlpas, Examplas), Scironides was one of the generals left at Samos,
of Tarentum, was one of the followers of Rhinthon while Strombichides, with two colleagues, pro-
in that peculiar sort of comedy, or rather burlesque ceeded to act against Chios: but, in B. c. 411,
trngedy, which was cultivated by the Dorians of Peisander induced the Athenians to recall Phry:
Magna Graecia, and especially at Tarentum. nichus and Scironides, and to transfer the com-
[RHINTHON. ] His Meleager is quoted by Athe- mand at Samos to Leon and Diomedon. (Thuc.
nacus, who describes the species of composition viii. 25—27, 30, 54. )
(E. E. )
now referred, to by the phrase της Ιταλικής SCIRUS (Exlpos), a soothsayer of Dodona, who,
kalovuévns Kwugdías (ix. p. 402, b. ). He is in the reign of Erechtheus, came to Salamis, and
also quoted by other writers. The true form of was afterwards honoured in the island with heroic
his name is doubtful, but in the greater number honours. Salamis is further said to have been
of the few passages in which he is quoted he is called after him, Scims. (Paus. i. 36. § 3; Strab.
called Sclerias. The genuineness of some of the ix. p. 393 ; Steph. Byz. 8. v. )
(L. S. ]
fragments is also doubtful. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. SCLE’RIAS. (SCIRAs. )
vol. ii. p. 491; Müller, Dor. iv. 7. $ 6. ) [P. S. ) SCOPAS (Exoras), an Aetolian, who held a
SCIRAS (Ekipás), a surname of Athena, under leading position among his countrymen at the
which she had a temple in the Attic port of Pha- period of the outbreak of the Social War, B. C.
leron, and in the island of Salamis (Paus. i. 1. 220. He was a kinsman of Ariston, who at this
§ 4 ; Herod. viii. 94). In the month of Sciro- time held the office of praetor, or general of the
phorion a festival was celebrated at Athens in Aetolian league, and the latter confided to him the
honour of her, which was called okipapópia (Har- chief conduct of affairs. On this account it was to
pocr. 8. o. Exipov). The foundation of the temple Scopas that Dorimachus applied for assistance after
at Phaleron is ascribed by Pausanias a sooth- the ill success of his predatory expedition against
sayer, Scirus of Dodona, who is said to have come Messenia [DORIMACHUS), and although no pre-
to Attica at the time when the Eleusinians were text had been given for involving the Aetolian
at war with king Erechtheus. (Paus. i. 36. $ 3; nation in war, these two chiefs were bold enough
comp. Strab. ix. p. 393; Steph. Byz. s. r. Exl- to undertake the enterprise on their own account.
pos. )
(L. S. ) In the spring of B. c. 220 accordingly they led an
SCIRON (Exipw or Exelpwr). 1. A famous expedition against the Messenians, and not only
robber who haunted the frontier between Attica ravaged the territories of the latter, but when
and Megaris, and not only robbed the travellers Aratus himself at the head of the Achaean army
who passed through the country, but compelled had come to their support, totally defeated him at
them, on the Scironian rock to wash his feet, Caphyae, and effected their retreat unmolested
during which operation he kicked them with his (Polyb. iv. 5, 6, 9, 10—13.
he was accused in B. c. 187, after his conquest of in the last cited passage of Appian. )
Antiochus. He was one of the many distinguished 24. P. CORNELIUS SCIPIO NASICA SERAPIO,
men, who sued for the censorship in B. c. 184, but the son of No. 23, was a fierce and stiff-necked
was defeated by M. Porcius Cato. Hence Pliny aristocrat, and is chiefly known by the repeated
speaks of him (H. N. vii. 34), as bis repulsa mention of him in Cicero's writings, as the leader
notatus a populo. In B. c. 183 and 182 he was of the senate in the murder of Tib. Gracchus. He
engaged as one of the triumviri in settling a Latin is first mentioned in B. c. 149, when he was sent
colony at Aquileia. The last time he is mentioned along with Cn. Scipio Hispallus [No. 28), to
is in B. c. 171, when he was one of the advocates demand from the Carthaginians the surrender of
appointed by the Spanish deputies to bring to trial their arms (Appian, Pun. 80). He was unsuc-
the Roman governors who had oppressed them. cessful in his application for the aedileship, but
Scipio Nasica is mentioned both by Cicero and was consul in B. C. 138, with D. Junius Brutus.
Pomponius as a celebrated jurist, aud the latter In consequence of the severity with which he
writer adds, that a house was given to him by the and his col que conducted the levy of troops,
siate in the Via Sacra, in order that he might be they were thrown into prison by C. Curiatius,
more easily consulted (Liv. xxix. 14. xxxi. 49, the tribune of the plebs. It was this Curiatius
xxxiii. 25, xxxiv. 42, 43, xxxv. 1, 10, 24, xxxvi. who gave Nasica the nick-name of Serapio,
1, 2, 37, &c. , xxxviii. 58, xxxix. 40, 55, xl. 34, from his resemblance to a dealer in sacrificial
xliii. 2; Diod. Eacerpta, p. 605, ed. Wess. ; Val. animals, or some other person of low rank, who
Max. vii. 5. $2; Cic. de Fin. v. 22, de Harusp. was called by this name ; but though given
Resp. 13, de Orat. ii. 68, iii. 33 ; Pomponius, de him in derision, it afterwards became his dis-
Origine Juris in Dig. 1. tit. 2. s. 2. § 37, where tinguishing surname (Liv. Epit. 55 ; Val. Max.
he is erroneously called Caius ; Zimmern, Ge-ix. 14. § 3 ; Plin. H. N. vii. 10). In B. C. 133,
schichte des Römischen Privatrechts, vol. i. p. 273. ) when the tribes met to re-elect 'Tib. Gracchus to
23. P. CORNELIUS Scipio Nasica CORCULUM, I the tribunate, and the utmost confusion prevailed
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752
SCIPIO.
SCIPIO.
Benators.
19;
in the forum, Nasica called upon the consuls to mistake in Valerius Maximus of C. for On. than
save the republic ; but as they refused to have that he should have borne a praenomen which
recourse to violence, he exclaimed, “ As the does not occur elsewhere in the family of the
consul betrays the state, do you who wish to obey Scipios.
the laws follow me," and so saying rushed forth 29. Cx. CORNELIUS Scipio HISPALLUS, the
from the temple of Fides, where the senate was son of No. 28, is mentioned only by Valerius
sitting, followed by the greater number of the Maximus, who relates (vi. 3. $ 3), that he had
The people gave way before them, and obtained the province of Spain by lot, but was
Gracchus was assassinated as he attempted to prevented by the senate from going thither on ac-
escape (Appian, B. C. i. 16; Plut. Tib. Gracch. count of the disgraceful life he had previously led.
for further particulars see Vol. II. p. 293). 30. CORNELIUS Scipio SALUTIO, an obscure
In conseqnence of his conduct on this occasion person, whom Caesar is said to have carried with
Nasica became an object of such detestation to the him in his African campaign, B. C. 46, and to
people, that the senate found it advisable to send have placed in front of the army, because it was
him on a pretended mission to Asia, although he believed that a Scipio would always conquer in
was pontifex maximus, and ought not, therefore, Africa, and he had to fight against Metellus
to have quitted Italy. He did not venture to Scipio, the general of the Pompeian troops.
return to Rome, and after wandering about from Others, however, thought that he did it as a kind
place to place, died soon afterwards at Pergamum. of joke, to show his contempt of Metellus Scipio.
(Plut. Tib. Gracch. 21 ; Cic. pro Flacc. 21 ; and Pliny relates that he was called Salutio from his
the other passages of Cicero in Orelli's Onomast. resemblance to a mimus of this name.
Dion
Tull. vol. ii. p. 191. )
Cassius calls him Salatton. (Suet. Caes. 59; Plut.
25. P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica, son of No. Caes. 52 ; Dion Cass. xlii. 58; Plin. H. N. vii.
24, was consul B. C. lll, with L. Calpurnius 12, xxx. 2. )
Bestia, and remained in Italy, while his colleague 31. P. CORNELIUS Scipio, married Scribonia,
had the conduct of the war against Jugurtha. who was afterwards the wiſe of Augustus, and by
He died during his consulship. He is described whom he had two children (Nos. 32 and 33). His
by Diodorus as a man who was inaccessible to descent is uncertain, and we have no particulars of
bribery throughout his life, though he lived in an his life. Suetonius says (Octav. 62) that both the
age of general corruption. Cicero speaks with husbands of Scribonia, before she was married to
praise of the affability of his address, in which Augustus, were men of consular rank ; but this
his father was deficient ; and although he spoke statement makes the matter still more uncertain,
neither much nor often in public, he was equal to since the last Scipio who obtained the consulship
any of his contemporaries in the purity of his was L. Scipio Asiaticus in B. C. 83. (No. 20. )
Latin, and surpassed them in wit and humour. 32. P. CORNELIUS Scipio, son of No. 31 and
(Sall. Jug. 27 ; Diod. Excerpt. p. 606, ed. Wess. ; Scribonia, afterwards the wife of Augustas, was
Cic. de Off. i. 30, Brut. 34, pro Planc. 34, and consul B. c. 16 with L. Domitius Ahenobarbus.
Schol. Bob. p. 259, ed. Orelli. )
(Dion Cass. liv. 19; Propert iv. 1). 67. )
26. P.
CORNELIUS Scipio Nasica, son of No. 33. Cornelia, daughter of No. 31 and Scri-
25, praetor B. c. 94, is mentioned by Cicero as one bonia, married Paulus Aemilius Lepidus, censor
of the advocates of Sex. Roscius of Ameria. He B. c. 22. (LEPIDUS, No. 19. )
married Licinia, the second daughter of L. Crassus, 34. CORNELIUS Scipio, legatus of Junius Blae-
the orator. (Cic. pro Sex. Rosc. 28, Brut. 58. ) sus, proconsul of Africa, under whom he served in
He had two sons, both of whom were adopted, the campaign against Tacfarinus in A. D. 22 (Tac.
one by his maternal grandfather L. Crassus in his Ann. iii. 74). He may, perhaps, bave been the
testament, and is therefore called L. Licinius son of No. 32.
Crassus Scipio [CRASSUS, No. 26]; and the other 35. CORNELIA, who married L. Volusiús Sa-
by Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius, consul B. C. 80, turninus, consul suffectus A. D. 3, and who was
and is therefore called Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius the niother of Q. Volusius Saturninus, consul A. D.
Scipio. This Scipio became the father-in-law of 56 (Plin. H. N. vii. 12. s. 14), may have been the
Cn. Pompey the triumvir, and fell in Africa in sister of No. 34. [SATURNINUS, VOLUSIUS, Nos.
B. C. 46. His life is given elsewhere. [METEL- | 2 and 3. ]
LUS, No. 22. ]
36. P. CORNELIUS Scipio, perhaps the son of
27. CN. CORNELIUS Scipio HISPALLUS, son 34, was the husband of Poppaea Sabina, who
of L. Scipio (No. 11), who was a brother of the two was put to death by Messalina, the wife of the
Scipios who fell in Spain. Hispallus was praetor emperor Claudius. He did not venture to ex.
B. c. 179, and consul B. c. 171, with Q. Petillius press any disapprobation of the deed, and showed
Spurinus. He was struck with paralysis during his subserviency at a later period by proposing
his consulship, and died at Cumae in the course of in the senate that thanks should be returned
the year. (Liv. xl. 44, xli. 14, 16. )
to Pallas, the freedman of Claudius, because he
28. CN. CORNELIUS Scipio HISPALLUS, son of allowed himself to be regarded as one of the
No. 27, was sent along with Scipio Nasica Serapio servants of the emperor, although he was descended
[No. 24), in B. c. 149, to demand from the Car- from the kings of Arcadia. He was consul under
thaginians the surrender of their arms (Appian, Nero in A. D. 56, with L. Volusius Saturninus,
Pun. 80). He was praetor, B. c. 139, when he who was probably his first cousin. (Tac. Ann.
published an edict that all Chaldaeans (i. e. astro-xi. 2, 4, xii. 53, xiii. 25; Plin. H. N. vii. 12.
Jogers) should leave Rome and Italy within ten s. 14. )
days (Val. Max. i. 3. $2). Valerius Maximus (l. c. ) The lives of the Scipios are given with accuracy
calls him Caius ; whence Pighius makes him the by Haakh in the Real-Encyclopädie der classichen
brother of the Hispallus mentioned by Appian, Alterthumswissenschaft, to which we have been much
but it is far more probable that there should be a ) indebted in dawing up the previous account
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SCIRONIDES.
SCOPAS.
753
SCIRAS or SCLE’RIAS (Exlpas, Examplas), Scironides was one of the generals left at Samos,
of Tarentum, was one of the followers of Rhinthon while Strombichides, with two colleagues, pro-
in that peculiar sort of comedy, or rather burlesque ceeded to act against Chios: but, in B. c. 411,
trngedy, which was cultivated by the Dorians of Peisander induced the Athenians to recall Phry:
Magna Graecia, and especially at Tarentum. nichus and Scironides, and to transfer the com-
[RHINTHON. ] His Meleager is quoted by Athe- mand at Samos to Leon and Diomedon. (Thuc.
nacus, who describes the species of composition viii. 25—27, 30, 54. )
(E. E. )
now referred, to by the phrase της Ιταλικής SCIRUS (Exlpos), a soothsayer of Dodona, who,
kalovuévns Kwugdías (ix. p. 402, b. ). He is in the reign of Erechtheus, came to Salamis, and
also quoted by other writers. The true form of was afterwards honoured in the island with heroic
his name is doubtful, but in the greater number honours. Salamis is further said to have been
of the few passages in which he is quoted he is called after him, Scims. (Paus. i. 36. § 3; Strab.
called Sclerias. The genuineness of some of the ix. p. 393 ; Steph. Byz. 8. v. )
(L. S. ]
fragments is also doubtful. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. SCLE’RIAS. (SCIRAs. )
vol. ii. p. 491; Müller, Dor. iv. 7. $ 6. ) [P. S. ) SCOPAS (Exoras), an Aetolian, who held a
SCIRAS (Ekipás), a surname of Athena, under leading position among his countrymen at the
which she had a temple in the Attic port of Pha- period of the outbreak of the Social War, B. C.
leron, and in the island of Salamis (Paus. i. 1. 220. He was a kinsman of Ariston, who at this
§ 4 ; Herod. viii. 94). In the month of Sciro- time held the office of praetor, or general of the
phorion a festival was celebrated at Athens in Aetolian league, and the latter confided to him the
honour of her, which was called okipapópia (Har- chief conduct of affairs. On this account it was to
pocr. 8. o. Exipov). The foundation of the temple Scopas that Dorimachus applied for assistance after
at Phaleron is ascribed by Pausanias a sooth- the ill success of his predatory expedition against
sayer, Scirus of Dodona, who is said to have come Messenia [DORIMACHUS), and although no pre-
to Attica at the time when the Eleusinians were text had been given for involving the Aetolian
at war with king Erechtheus. (Paus. i. 36. $ 3; nation in war, these two chiefs were bold enough
comp. Strab. ix. p. 393; Steph. Byz. s. r. Exl- to undertake the enterprise on their own account.
pos. )
(L. S. ) In the spring of B. c. 220 accordingly they led an
SCIRON (Exipw or Exelpwr). 1. A famous expedition against the Messenians, and not only
robber who haunted the frontier between Attica ravaged the territories of the latter, but when
and Megaris, and not only robbed the travellers Aratus himself at the head of the Achaean army
who passed through the country, but compelled had come to their support, totally defeated him at
them, on the Scironian rock to wash his feet, Caphyae, and effected their retreat unmolested
during which operation he kicked them with his (Polyb. iv. 5, 6, 9, 10—13.
