31) call him a consular, but the and the Ars Poëtica of Horace, which are known
vear of his consulship is not known.
vear of his consulship is not known.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - c
15.
$$ 7, 9, iv.
16.
SS 7, 8, iv.
17.
& 2, de
extraordinary splendour with which he celebrated Off. i. 39 ; Ascon. Argum. in Scaur. ; and the
the public games surpassed every thing of the kind Fragments of Cicero's Oration for Scaurus. )
that bad been previously witnessed in Rome, and The following coin was struck in the curule
it is by them that his name has been chiefly handed aedileship of Scaurus and his colleague, P. Plautius
down to posterity. The temporary theatre which Hypsaeus. The subject of the obverse relates to
he built accommodated 80,000 spectators, and was Hypsaeus, and that of the reverse to Scaurus. The
adorned in the most magnificent manner. Three former represents Jupiter in a quadriga, with p.
hundred and sixty pillars decorated the stage, Hypsa Evs. Aen. CVR. C HVPSAE. cos. PREIVER
arranged in three stories, of which the lowest was CAPTV. ; the latter part of the legend referring to
VOL IIL
3 B
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738
SCAURUS.
SCAURUS.
AES. eV22
SCAVR,
AED. CV
21SC
the conquest of Privernum by C. Plautius Hypsaeus, All the ancient authorities respecting the Aemili
in B. c. 341. On the obverse is a camel, with Scauri are given by Drumann. (Geschichte Roms,
Aretas kneeling by the side of the animal, and vol. i. pp. 25—33. )
holding an olive branch in his hand. The subject SCAURUS, ATTI'LIUS, a friend of the
refers to the conquest of Aretas by Scaurus men- younger Pliny (Plin. Ep. vi. 25), to whom one of
tioned above. The legend is M. SCAVR. AED. CVR. his letters is addressed. (Ep. v. 13. )
Ex. 8. C. , and below REX ARETAS. (Eckhel, vol. SCAURUS, AURE’LIUS. 1. C. AURELIUS
v. pp. 131, 275. )
SCAURUS, praetor B. c. 186, obtained Sardinia as
his province. (Lir. xxxix. 6, 8. )
YPSAEVE
2. M. AURELIUS SCAURUS, was consul suffectus
in B. c. 108. Three years afterwards, B. c. 105,
he was consular legate in Gaul, where he was de-
feated by the Cimbri, and taken prisoner. When
he was brought before the leaders of the Cimbri,
HVISALTO
ESARETAS
he warned them not to cross the Alps, as they
would find it impossible to subdue the Romans,
COIN OF M. AEMILIUS SCAURUS.
and was thereupon killed on the spot by Boiorix,
one of the chiefs. He is erroneously called by
4. Aemilius SCAURUS, the younger son of Velleius Paterculus consul, instead of consularis
No. 2, fought under the proconsul, Q. Catulus, (Liv. Epit. 67 ; Oros. v. 16; Vell. Pat. ii. 12;
against the Cimbri at the Athesis, and having fled Tac. Germ. 37. ) This M. Aurelius Scaurus is
from the field, was indignantly commanded by his erroneously called M. Aemilius Scaurus by many
father not to come into his presence ; whereupon modern writers.
the youth put an end to his life. (Val. Max. v. 8. 3. M. AURELIUS SCAURUS, the quaestor men-
$ 4; Frontin. Strat. iv. 1. & 3. )
tioned by Cicero (Verr. i. 33), was probably a son
5. M. Aemilius SCAURUS, the son of No. 3, of the preceding.
and Mucia, the former wife of Pompey the trium- 4. M. Aurelius SCAURUS, whose name occurs
vir, and consequently the half-brother of Sex. on coins, of which a specimen is annexed. On
Pompey. He accompanied the latter into Asia, the obverse is the head of Pallas, and on the re-
after the defeat of his fleet in Sicily, but betrayed verse Mars driving a chariot. From the legend
him into the hands of the generals of M. Antonius, L. Lic. and CN. DOM. on the reverse, it is supposed
in B. C. 35. After the battle of Actium, he fell that Scaurus was one of the triumvirs of the mint
into the power of Octavian, and escaped death, to at the time that L. Licinius and Cn. Domitius held
which he had been sentenced, only through the in- one of the higher magistracies. There are several
tercession of his mother, Mucia. (Appian, B. C. other coins of the same kind. [See Vol. I. p. 863,
y. 142 ; Dion Cass. li. 2, lvi. 38. )
b, and more especially Vol. II. p. 785, a. )
6. MAMERCUS AEMILIUS SCAURUS, the son
of No. 5, was a distinguished orator and poet, but
of a dissolute character. He was a member of the
senate at the time of the accession of Tiberius,
A. D. 14, when he offended this suspicious emperor
by some remarks which he made in the senate.
He is mentioned as one of the accusers of Domitius
JAG SCAR
Corbulo in A. D. 21, and likewise as one of the
accusers of Silanus, in A. D. 22. He was himself
accused of majestas in A. D. 32, but Tiberius
COIN OF M. AURELIUS SCAURUS.
stopped the proceedings against him. He was,
however, again accused of the same crime in A. D. SCAURUS, MAXIMUS, a centurion in the
34, by Servilius and Cornelius Tuscus, who charged praetorian troops, was one of the parties privy to
him with magic, and with having had adultery Piso's conspiracy against the emperor Nero. (Tac.
with Livia ; but his real ground of offence was his Ann. xv. 50. )
tragedy of Atreus, in which his enemy Macro had SCAURUS, Q. TERE'NTIUS, a celebrated
interpolated some verses reflecting upon the em- grammarian who flourished under the emperor
peror. He put an end to his own life at the Hadrian (divi Hadriani temporibus grammaticus
suggestion of his wife Sextia, who killed herself at vel nobilissimus), and whose son was one of the
the same time (Tac. Ann. i. 13, iii. 31, 36, vi. 9, preceptors of the emperor Verus (Gell. xi. 15.
29 ; Dion Cass. Iviii. 24 ; Senec. Suas. 2, de Benef. § 3; comp. Auson. Epist
. xviii. 27; Capitolin.
iv. 31; Meyer, Orat. Rom. Fragm. pp. 558, 559, Verus, 2). He was the author of an Ars Gram-
2d ed. ). Both Tacitus (Ann. iii
. 66) and Seneca matica and of commentaries upon Plautus, Virgil,
(de Benef. iv.
31) call him a consular, but the and the Ars Poëtica of Horace, which are known
vear of his consulship is not known. Besides to us from a few scattered notices only, for the
Sextia, who was his wife at the time of his death, tract entitled Q. Terenti Scauri de Orthographia
he had also been married to Lepida, by whom he ad Theseum included in the “ Grammaticae La-
had a daughter, and who was condemned in A. D. tinae Auctores Antiqui” of Putschius (4to. Han-
20 (Tac. Ann. iii. 23). In the following year he nov. 1605, pp. 2250—2264), but originally pub-
is called the paternal uncle (patruus) and step- lished at Basle (8vo. 1527), is not believed to be
father (vitricus) of Sulla (Tac. Ann. iii. 31), and a genuine production of this Scaurus at least
therefore it would appear that, after the death of (Charisius, pp. 107, 110, 182, 187, 188 ; Dio-
Lepida, he had married his brother's widow. Se medes, pp. 275, 305, 415, 439, 444, 450 ; Pris-
neca says (Suas. 2) that this Scaurus was the last cian. p. 910; Rufinus, de Metris Comicis, pp. 2711,
of his family,
2713, all in the ed. of Putschius; Serx. ad Virg.
*WNO
OLICCN-BON
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SCERDILAIDAS.
739
SCIPIO.
secr
con-
Aen. ïïi. 484, xii. 120, who in the latter passage equipment of a powerful feet, to carry on operations
quotes from “Scaurus de Vita sua ;" Ritschl, de against the Illyrian king. Scerdilaïdas, alarmed at
vet. Plauti interpret. in bis Parergon Plautin. these tidings, applied for assistance to the Romans,
vol. i. p. 357, &c. )
(W. R. ] who were favourably disposed towards him from
SCEPHRUS (Exéopos), a son of Tegeates and jealousy of Philip, but were too hard pressed at
Maera, and brother of Leimon. When A pollo and home to furnish him any effectual succour. They,
Artemis took vengeance upon those who had ill. however, in the summer of B. c. 216, sent a squa-
treated Latona, while she was wandering about in dron of ten ships to his support, and the very name
her pregnancy; and when they came into the of a Roman fleet struck such a terror into Philip
country of the Tegeatans, A po had
that he abandoned the Adriatic, and retired, with
versation with Scephrus. Leimon, suspecting that his whole feet, to Cephalenia (Polyb. v. 3, 95,
Scephrus was plotting against him, slew his brother, 101, 108, 110). But during the following years
and Artemis punished the murderer by sudden his loman allies were able to give little assistance
death. Tegeates and Maera immediately offered to the Illyrian king, and Philip wrested from him
up sacrifices to Apollo and Artemis ; but the the important fortress of Lissus, as well as a con-
country was nevertheless visited by a famine, and siderable part of his dominions. In B. c. 211 Scer-
the god of Delphi ordered that Scephrus should be dilaïdas joined the alliance of the Aetolians with
honoured with funercal solemnities. From that the Romans, but his part in the war which fol-
time, it is said, a part of the solemnities at the fes lowed appears to have been confined to threatening
tival of Apollo Agyieus at Tegea, was performed in and infesting the Macedonian frontiers by occasional
honour of Scephrus, and the priestess of Artemis predatory incursions (Liv. xxvi. 24, xxvii. 30,
pursued a man as Artemis had pursued Leinon. xxviii. 5 ; Polyb. x. 41). It would appear that
(Paus. viii. 53. § 1. )
(LS. ) he must have died before the peace of 204, as his
SCERDILAIDAS, or SCERDILAEDUS. name, which is coupled with that of his son Pleu-
(Ekepdidatoas or Exepolaaidos. Concerning the ratus, during the negotiations in B. C. 208, does not
farious forms of the name see Schweighäuser, ad appear in the treaty concluded by P. Sempronius
Polyb. ii. 5. $ 6. Bekker, in his recent edition of with the Macedonian king (see Liv. xxvii. 30,
Polybius, retains the form Ekepdirudos. )
xxix. 12). He left a son, PLEURATUS, who suc-
1. A king of Illyria, who was in all probability ceeded him on the throne.
a son of Pleuratus, and younger brother of Agron, 2. A son of Gentius, king of Illyria, who was
both of them kings of that country (see Schweigh- taken prisoner and carried captive to Rome, toge-
aüser, l. c. ). He is first mentioned shortly after ther with his father and his brother Pleuratus.
the death of Agron, as commanding a force sent by (Liv. xliv. 32. )
(E. H. B. )
Teuta, the widow of that monarch, against Epeirus, SCEVI'NUS, FLAVIUS. (SCAEVINUS. )
B. C. 230.
He advanced through the passes of SCHE'DIUS (xédios). 1. A son of Iphitus
Atintania, defeated an army which the Epeirots by Hippolyte, commanded the Phocians in the war
opposed to him, and penetrated as far as Phoenice, against Troy, along with his brother Epistrophus.
when he was recalled by Teuta to oppose the Dar- (Hom. I. ii. 517, &c. ) Apollodorus (iii. 10. § 8)
danians (Polyb. ii. 5, 6). At this time he was calls Epistrophus the father of Schedius.
clearly in a private station, and the period at which slain by Hector (Il. xvii. 306, &c. ; Paus. x. 4.
he assumed the sovereignty is uncertain ; but it $ 1), and his remains were carried from Troy to
seems probable that, after the defeat and abdication Anticyra in Phocis. He was represented in the
of Teuta (B. c. 229), Scerdilaïdas succeeded to a Lesche at Delphi. . (Paus. x. 30. § 2, 36, in fin. )
portion of her dominions, though at first without 2. A son of Perimedes, likewise a Phocian who
the title of king, which he probably did not assume was killed at Troy by Hector. (Hom. Il. xv. 515;
till after the death of his nephew Pinnes, on whom comp. Strab. ix. p. 424. )
[L. S. )
the Romans had bestowed the sovereignty, under SCHOENEUS (Exouveus), a son of Athamas
the guardianship of Demetrius of Pharos (see and Themisto, was king in Boeotia and father of
Schweighäuser, ad Polyb. l. c. ). In B. C. 220 we Atalante and Clymenus (Apollod. i. 8. § 2, 9. § 2,
find him joining with Demetrius in a predatory ex- iii. 9. § 2). The town of Schoenus is said to have
pedition against the Achaeans, and concluding a derived its name from him. (Paus. viii. 35. § 8;
treaty with the Aetolians against that people : but Steph. Byz. s. v. ) Another personage of this
he quickly became dissatisfied with the conduct of name occurs in Anton. Lib. 10. [L. S. ]
his new allies, and was, in consequence, induced SCI'PIO, the name of an illustrious patrician
by Philip to change sides, and conclude an alliance family of the Cornelia gens. This name, wbich
with the Macedonian monarch (Polyb. iv. 16, 29). signifies a stick or staff, is said to have been ori-
In the spring of 218 he sent a small squadron to ginally given to a Cornelius, because he served as
the support of Philip, but he appears to have ren- à staff in directing his blind father (patrem pro
dered him little efficient assistance, either on that baculo regebat), and to have been handed down by
or any subsequent occasion during the war. Not- him as a family name to his descendants (Macrob.
withstanding this he claimed from the Macedonian Sat. i. 6). This family produced some of the
king his promised share of the booty, and conceiv- greatest men in Rome, and to them she was more
ing himself aggrieved in this respect, in the follow- indebted than to any others for the empire of the
ing year (B. C. 217) he turned his arms against world. The Scipios, like many other Roman
Philip, captured by treachery some of his ships, families, possessed a burial-place in which all the
and made an inroad into Macedonia itself, where members of the family were interred (Cic. Tusc. i.
he made himself master of some of the frontier 7). This family-tomb, which was near the Porta
towns. Philip, who was at this time in the Pelo Capena, was discovered in 1780, and is one of the
ponnese, hastened to the relief of his own domi- most interesting remains of the republican period.
nions, and having quickly recovered the places he It was discovered on the left of the Appia Via,
had lost, occupied himself during the winter in the l about 400 paces within the modern Porta S Se-
He was
a
38 2
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740
STEMMA SCIPIONUM.
1. P. Cornelius Scipio, tr. mil. B. c. 395, 394.
2. P. Scipio, cur. aed. B. c. 366.
3.
extraordinary splendour with which he celebrated Off. i. 39 ; Ascon. Argum. in Scaur. ; and the
the public games surpassed every thing of the kind Fragments of Cicero's Oration for Scaurus. )
that bad been previously witnessed in Rome, and The following coin was struck in the curule
it is by them that his name has been chiefly handed aedileship of Scaurus and his colleague, P. Plautius
down to posterity. The temporary theatre which Hypsaeus. The subject of the obverse relates to
he built accommodated 80,000 spectators, and was Hypsaeus, and that of the reverse to Scaurus. The
adorned in the most magnificent manner. Three former represents Jupiter in a quadriga, with p.
hundred and sixty pillars decorated the stage, Hypsa Evs. Aen. CVR. C HVPSAE. cos. PREIVER
arranged in three stories, of which the lowest was CAPTV. ; the latter part of the legend referring to
VOL IIL
3 B
## p. 738 (#754) ############################################
738
SCAURUS.
SCAURUS.
AES. eV22
SCAVR,
AED. CV
21SC
the conquest of Privernum by C. Plautius Hypsaeus, All the ancient authorities respecting the Aemili
in B. c. 341. On the obverse is a camel, with Scauri are given by Drumann. (Geschichte Roms,
Aretas kneeling by the side of the animal, and vol. i. pp. 25—33. )
holding an olive branch in his hand. The subject SCAURUS, ATTI'LIUS, a friend of the
refers to the conquest of Aretas by Scaurus men- younger Pliny (Plin. Ep. vi. 25), to whom one of
tioned above. The legend is M. SCAVR. AED. CVR. his letters is addressed. (Ep. v. 13. )
Ex. 8. C. , and below REX ARETAS. (Eckhel, vol. SCAURUS, AURE’LIUS. 1. C. AURELIUS
v. pp. 131, 275. )
SCAURUS, praetor B. c. 186, obtained Sardinia as
his province. (Lir. xxxix. 6, 8. )
YPSAEVE
2. M. AURELIUS SCAURUS, was consul suffectus
in B. c. 108. Three years afterwards, B. c. 105,
he was consular legate in Gaul, where he was de-
feated by the Cimbri, and taken prisoner. When
he was brought before the leaders of the Cimbri,
HVISALTO
ESARETAS
he warned them not to cross the Alps, as they
would find it impossible to subdue the Romans,
COIN OF M. AEMILIUS SCAURUS.
and was thereupon killed on the spot by Boiorix,
one of the chiefs. He is erroneously called by
4. Aemilius SCAURUS, the younger son of Velleius Paterculus consul, instead of consularis
No. 2, fought under the proconsul, Q. Catulus, (Liv. Epit. 67 ; Oros. v. 16; Vell. Pat. ii. 12;
against the Cimbri at the Athesis, and having fled Tac. Germ. 37. ) This M. Aurelius Scaurus is
from the field, was indignantly commanded by his erroneously called M. Aemilius Scaurus by many
father not to come into his presence ; whereupon modern writers.
the youth put an end to his life. (Val. Max. v. 8. 3. M. AURELIUS SCAURUS, the quaestor men-
$ 4; Frontin. Strat. iv. 1. & 3. )
tioned by Cicero (Verr. i. 33), was probably a son
5. M. Aemilius SCAURUS, the son of No. 3, of the preceding.
and Mucia, the former wife of Pompey the trium- 4. M. Aurelius SCAURUS, whose name occurs
vir, and consequently the half-brother of Sex. on coins, of which a specimen is annexed. On
Pompey. He accompanied the latter into Asia, the obverse is the head of Pallas, and on the re-
after the defeat of his fleet in Sicily, but betrayed verse Mars driving a chariot. From the legend
him into the hands of the generals of M. Antonius, L. Lic. and CN. DOM. on the reverse, it is supposed
in B. C. 35. After the battle of Actium, he fell that Scaurus was one of the triumvirs of the mint
into the power of Octavian, and escaped death, to at the time that L. Licinius and Cn. Domitius held
which he had been sentenced, only through the in- one of the higher magistracies. There are several
tercession of his mother, Mucia. (Appian, B. C. other coins of the same kind. [See Vol. I. p. 863,
y. 142 ; Dion Cass. li. 2, lvi. 38. )
b, and more especially Vol. II. p. 785, a. )
6. MAMERCUS AEMILIUS SCAURUS, the son
of No. 5, was a distinguished orator and poet, but
of a dissolute character. He was a member of the
senate at the time of the accession of Tiberius,
A. D. 14, when he offended this suspicious emperor
by some remarks which he made in the senate.
He is mentioned as one of the accusers of Domitius
JAG SCAR
Corbulo in A. D. 21, and likewise as one of the
accusers of Silanus, in A. D. 22. He was himself
accused of majestas in A. D. 32, but Tiberius
COIN OF M. AURELIUS SCAURUS.
stopped the proceedings against him. He was,
however, again accused of the same crime in A. D. SCAURUS, MAXIMUS, a centurion in the
34, by Servilius and Cornelius Tuscus, who charged praetorian troops, was one of the parties privy to
him with magic, and with having had adultery Piso's conspiracy against the emperor Nero. (Tac.
with Livia ; but his real ground of offence was his Ann. xv. 50. )
tragedy of Atreus, in which his enemy Macro had SCAURUS, Q. TERE'NTIUS, a celebrated
interpolated some verses reflecting upon the em- grammarian who flourished under the emperor
peror. He put an end to his own life at the Hadrian (divi Hadriani temporibus grammaticus
suggestion of his wife Sextia, who killed herself at vel nobilissimus), and whose son was one of the
the same time (Tac. Ann. i. 13, iii. 31, 36, vi. 9, preceptors of the emperor Verus (Gell. xi. 15.
29 ; Dion Cass. Iviii. 24 ; Senec. Suas. 2, de Benef. § 3; comp. Auson. Epist
. xviii. 27; Capitolin.
iv. 31; Meyer, Orat. Rom. Fragm. pp. 558, 559, Verus, 2). He was the author of an Ars Gram-
2d ed. ). Both Tacitus (Ann. iii
. 66) and Seneca matica and of commentaries upon Plautus, Virgil,
(de Benef. iv.
31) call him a consular, but the and the Ars Poëtica of Horace, which are known
vear of his consulship is not known. Besides to us from a few scattered notices only, for the
Sextia, who was his wife at the time of his death, tract entitled Q. Terenti Scauri de Orthographia
he had also been married to Lepida, by whom he ad Theseum included in the “ Grammaticae La-
had a daughter, and who was condemned in A. D. tinae Auctores Antiqui” of Putschius (4to. Han-
20 (Tac. Ann. iii. 23). In the following year he nov. 1605, pp. 2250—2264), but originally pub-
is called the paternal uncle (patruus) and step- lished at Basle (8vo. 1527), is not believed to be
father (vitricus) of Sulla (Tac. Ann. iii. 31), and a genuine production of this Scaurus at least
therefore it would appear that, after the death of (Charisius, pp. 107, 110, 182, 187, 188 ; Dio-
Lepida, he had married his brother's widow. Se medes, pp. 275, 305, 415, 439, 444, 450 ; Pris-
neca says (Suas. 2) that this Scaurus was the last cian. p. 910; Rufinus, de Metris Comicis, pp. 2711,
of his family,
2713, all in the ed. of Putschius; Serx. ad Virg.
*WNO
OLICCN-BON
## p. 739 (#755) ############################################
SCERDILAIDAS.
739
SCIPIO.
secr
con-
Aen. ïïi. 484, xii. 120, who in the latter passage equipment of a powerful feet, to carry on operations
quotes from “Scaurus de Vita sua ;" Ritschl, de against the Illyrian king. Scerdilaïdas, alarmed at
vet. Plauti interpret. in bis Parergon Plautin. these tidings, applied for assistance to the Romans,
vol. i. p. 357, &c. )
(W. R. ] who were favourably disposed towards him from
SCEPHRUS (Exéopos), a son of Tegeates and jealousy of Philip, but were too hard pressed at
Maera, and brother of Leimon. When A pollo and home to furnish him any effectual succour. They,
Artemis took vengeance upon those who had ill. however, in the summer of B. c. 216, sent a squa-
treated Latona, while she was wandering about in dron of ten ships to his support, and the very name
her pregnancy; and when they came into the of a Roman fleet struck such a terror into Philip
country of the Tegeatans, A po had
that he abandoned the Adriatic, and retired, with
versation with Scephrus. Leimon, suspecting that his whole feet, to Cephalenia (Polyb. v. 3, 95,
Scephrus was plotting against him, slew his brother, 101, 108, 110). But during the following years
and Artemis punished the murderer by sudden his loman allies were able to give little assistance
death. Tegeates and Maera immediately offered to the Illyrian king, and Philip wrested from him
up sacrifices to Apollo and Artemis ; but the the important fortress of Lissus, as well as a con-
country was nevertheless visited by a famine, and siderable part of his dominions. In B. c. 211 Scer-
the god of Delphi ordered that Scephrus should be dilaïdas joined the alliance of the Aetolians with
honoured with funercal solemnities. From that the Romans, but his part in the war which fol-
time, it is said, a part of the solemnities at the fes lowed appears to have been confined to threatening
tival of Apollo Agyieus at Tegea, was performed in and infesting the Macedonian frontiers by occasional
honour of Scephrus, and the priestess of Artemis predatory incursions (Liv. xxvi. 24, xxvii. 30,
pursued a man as Artemis had pursued Leinon. xxviii. 5 ; Polyb. x. 41). It would appear that
(Paus. viii. 53. § 1. )
(LS. ) he must have died before the peace of 204, as his
SCERDILAIDAS, or SCERDILAEDUS. name, which is coupled with that of his son Pleu-
(Ekepdidatoas or Exepolaaidos. Concerning the ratus, during the negotiations in B. C. 208, does not
farious forms of the name see Schweighäuser, ad appear in the treaty concluded by P. Sempronius
Polyb. ii. 5. $ 6. Bekker, in his recent edition of with the Macedonian king (see Liv. xxvii. 30,
Polybius, retains the form Ekepdirudos. )
xxix. 12). He left a son, PLEURATUS, who suc-
1. A king of Illyria, who was in all probability ceeded him on the throne.
a son of Pleuratus, and younger brother of Agron, 2. A son of Gentius, king of Illyria, who was
both of them kings of that country (see Schweigh- taken prisoner and carried captive to Rome, toge-
aüser, l. c. ). He is first mentioned shortly after ther with his father and his brother Pleuratus.
the death of Agron, as commanding a force sent by (Liv. xliv. 32. )
(E. H. B. )
Teuta, the widow of that monarch, against Epeirus, SCEVI'NUS, FLAVIUS. (SCAEVINUS. )
B. C. 230.
He advanced through the passes of SCHE'DIUS (xédios). 1. A son of Iphitus
Atintania, defeated an army which the Epeirots by Hippolyte, commanded the Phocians in the war
opposed to him, and penetrated as far as Phoenice, against Troy, along with his brother Epistrophus.
when he was recalled by Teuta to oppose the Dar- (Hom. I. ii. 517, &c. ) Apollodorus (iii. 10. § 8)
danians (Polyb. ii. 5, 6). At this time he was calls Epistrophus the father of Schedius.
clearly in a private station, and the period at which slain by Hector (Il. xvii. 306, &c. ; Paus. x. 4.
he assumed the sovereignty is uncertain ; but it $ 1), and his remains were carried from Troy to
seems probable that, after the defeat and abdication Anticyra in Phocis. He was represented in the
of Teuta (B. c. 229), Scerdilaïdas succeeded to a Lesche at Delphi. . (Paus. x. 30. § 2, 36, in fin. )
portion of her dominions, though at first without 2. A son of Perimedes, likewise a Phocian who
the title of king, which he probably did not assume was killed at Troy by Hector. (Hom. Il. xv. 515;
till after the death of his nephew Pinnes, on whom comp. Strab. ix. p. 424. )
[L. S. )
the Romans had bestowed the sovereignty, under SCHOENEUS (Exouveus), a son of Athamas
the guardianship of Demetrius of Pharos (see and Themisto, was king in Boeotia and father of
Schweighäuser, ad Polyb. l. c. ). In B. C. 220 we Atalante and Clymenus (Apollod. i. 8. § 2, 9. § 2,
find him joining with Demetrius in a predatory ex- iii. 9. § 2). The town of Schoenus is said to have
pedition against the Achaeans, and concluding a derived its name from him. (Paus. viii. 35. § 8;
treaty with the Aetolians against that people : but Steph. Byz. s. v. ) Another personage of this
he quickly became dissatisfied with the conduct of name occurs in Anton. Lib. 10. [L. S. ]
his new allies, and was, in consequence, induced SCI'PIO, the name of an illustrious patrician
by Philip to change sides, and conclude an alliance family of the Cornelia gens. This name, wbich
with the Macedonian monarch (Polyb. iv. 16, 29). signifies a stick or staff, is said to have been ori-
In the spring of 218 he sent a small squadron to ginally given to a Cornelius, because he served as
the support of Philip, but he appears to have ren- à staff in directing his blind father (patrem pro
dered him little efficient assistance, either on that baculo regebat), and to have been handed down by
or any subsequent occasion during the war. Not- him as a family name to his descendants (Macrob.
withstanding this he claimed from the Macedonian Sat. i. 6). This family produced some of the
king his promised share of the booty, and conceiv- greatest men in Rome, and to them she was more
ing himself aggrieved in this respect, in the follow- indebted than to any others for the empire of the
ing year (B. C. 217) he turned his arms against world. The Scipios, like many other Roman
Philip, captured by treachery some of his ships, families, possessed a burial-place in which all the
and made an inroad into Macedonia itself, where members of the family were interred (Cic. Tusc. i.
he made himself master of some of the frontier 7). This family-tomb, which was near the Porta
towns. Philip, who was at this time in the Pelo Capena, was discovered in 1780, and is one of the
ponnese, hastened to the relief of his own domi- most interesting remains of the republican period.
nions, and having quickly recovered the places he It was discovered on the left of the Appia Via,
had lost, occupied himself during the winter in the l about 400 paces within the modern Porta S Se-
He was
a
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STEMMA SCIPIONUM.
1. P. Cornelius Scipio, tr. mil. B. c. 395, 394.
2. P. Scipio, cur. aed. B. c. 366.
3.
