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Scaea,

An hauen at Troy, whereas was the sepulchre of Laomedon.

Scaei,

People in Thracia.

Scaenitae,

People of Arabie, which dwell alway in tentes, couered with the heares of Goates: among whome if a swine or hogge be brought, it dyeth immediatly.

Scaenopegia, orum,

neut. gen. The feast of the tabernacles, wherein the Iewes did set vp tabernacles, or tentes, in similitude of them wherin they dwelled when they came out of Aegypt.

Scaeuola,

A noble man of Rome.

Scalabiscus,

A citie of Portugall, called commonly Trugillo.

Scalde,

A ryuer in Fraunce.

Scamander, dri,

A Ryuer of Troye, descending from the mountaine Ida.

Scamandria,

A towne by the hauen of Ilium, not farre from Troy.

Scamandrus,

The sonne of Hector and Andromache.

Scandinauia, or Scandia,

An Ile in the north Occean sea, the quantitie whereof was neuer founde.

Scapténsula,

A place in Macedonia, where siluer was dig∣ged.

Scaptia,

An olde citie in Italie, whereof came the tribe cal∣led Scaptia tribus.

Scardona,

A citie of Liburnia, called now Scardo.

Scauri,

Menne of an honorable house amonge the Ro∣maynes.

Sceleratus campus,

A field at Rome, where the Nunnes of Vesta were buryed quicke, if they were founde to lyue incontinently.

Scenitae,

People of Arabia foelix, Looke Scaenitae.

Scenopégia, orum,

plu. Looke Scaenopegia.

Scepsis,

A citie in Phrygia.

Sceptici,

Were a sect of Philosophers, which affyrmed no∣thing: the chiefe of that sect were Pyrrho, and Heril∣lus.

Scéptica, cae,

foem. gen. The sect of those Philosophers.

Schinis,

The name of a notable and cruell robber, that was slayne by Theseus.

Schinusa,

One of the Iles called Sporades.

Schoeneus,

called also Iasius, A kyng of Arcadie, father of Atalanta.

Schoeneius, a, um,

Of Schoeneus.

Schoeneis, idis,

patronimicum foem.

Scoenus, nuntis,

A ryuer by Athens: also an other in Ar∣cadia.

Sciathos,

A certaine Ile.

Scione,

A towne of Macedonie.

Sciopodes,

People which lying vpright, doe shadow them∣selues with their féete: albeit euery one man hath but one legge, yet be they woonderfull swift.

Scipiadae, and Scipionidae,

They which were of Scipiones progenie, the noble capitaines of the Romaynes.

Scipio,

The surname of dyuers noble Romaynes, of the whiche foure were most excellent, as well in martiall prowesse, as in other most notable vertues. The one called Scipio Nausica, sonne of Gneius Scipio, who had béene both Consull and triumphed: and being a verie yong man, was déemed of all the people of Rome to be the best man in that citie. Two other were brethren, the sonnes of Publius Scipio. The one of them, L. Scipio, for the subduing of Asia, was called Scipio Asiaticus: the o∣ther, P. Cor. Scipio, for vanquishing Anniball, and the people of Affrica, was named Scipio Affricanus maior. This Publius Cor. Scipio, from his childehoode was of a woonderfull towardenesse: for being but .xvij. yeares olde, in a great battayle by P••uie in Lumbardie, he re∣seued his father being enuironed with enimies, and in daunger to be slaine. Also after the discomfiture at Can∣nae, where the more part of the floure of chiualrie was slaine, bicause the residue of the yong men concluded to haue forsaken Italy, this Scipio drewe out his sworde, and compelled them to sweare, that they shoulde not leaue the citie, but defende it. After that his father and vncle were slaine, all men fearing to be Capitaynes in so daungerous warres, he stept foorth with a noble cou∣rage, proffering himselfe to take that charge in hande: wherevnto the Senate and people consented, he being then but .xxij. yeares olde, they beholding in hys perso∣nage and visage a beautie incomparable, his counte∣naunce mery and gentle, and in his gesture and pace to be a woonderfull maiestie, which was had in such admi∣ration throughout all the worlde, that after he had dri∣uen Anniball out of Affrike, subdued the citie of Car∣thage, and constreyned the great king Antiochus to de∣sire peace of the Romaynes, the warres being ceassed, men came out of all countreys to Rome, onely to sée and honour him, as one excéeding the state of mortalitie: whereby such enuie was styrred towarde hym, that hée was accused for deteyning of certayne treasure, which shoulde haue beene brought into the common treasurie: but he with a noble and valiaunt courage came before the people, and remembring what hée had done for the weale publike required them to go with him to the Ca∣pitoll to giue thankes to God for his victorie: and so departing, all the people followed him, and left the iud∣ges alone. But notwithstanding he so grieuously tooke the ingratitude of the Senate and people, that he aban∣doned all common affayres, and went out of the citie of Rome to a manour place, which he had at Linternum, and there ended his lyfe, when he had liued .liiij. yeares. A notable remembraunce to them that doe trust in for∣tune, or fauour of the people. The fourth was Scipio Africanus minor, sonne of Paulus Aemilius: he subuerted Carthage and Numantia.

Sciron,

Looke Scyron.

Scironia saxa,

Rockes in the sea by Athens.

Scitae,

People in the north part by ••sia, which were cruell, and hard to be vanquished: they be nowe called Russi∣ans, Moscouites, and Tartarians.

Scodra,

A citie in Liburnia, called now Scutarā.

Scolus,

A village in Asopia, vnder the mountaine Cythe∣ron, A place vnpleasaunt, vnfruitfull, vntylled & rough: Stephanus boundeth it in Boeotia.

Scopas,

The name of a notable grauer.

Scordona,

An Ile lying towarde Dalmatia, called com∣monly Malconseglio.

Scórpio, ônis,

m. gen. or Scorpius, pij, m. gen. A signe in the firmament.

Scotia,

Scotlande, the part of Britannia from the ryuer of Twéede to Catanes.

Scoti,

Scottes▪ or Scottishe men, of whom saint Hierome writeth in this wise: Quid loquar de caete••is nationibus, quum ipse adolescentulus in Gallia viderim Scotos, gentē Britannicam humanis vesci carnibus, & quum persyluas porcorum greges, & armentorum, pecudum{que} repe••••ant, pastorum nates, & foeminarū papillas solere abscindere, & has solas ciborum delitias arbitrari? What shall I speake of other nations, since that when I was a boy, I sawe in Fraunce Scottes, a people of Britayne, eate mens fleshe, and when they founde in the forrestes hierdes of swine, beastes, and cattaile, they would cutte of the but∣tockes of the boyes, which kept them, and also the wo∣mens pappes, and tooke that to be the most deyntie and delicate meate.

Scotusa,

A citie of Thessaly.

Scurgum,

A citie of Germanie.

Scyathos,

An yle and towne in the sea Aegeum.

Scylace,

A citie in Gréece.

Scylaceum,

A towne in the furthermost part of Italy, first buylded and inhabited by men of Athens.

Scylatium,

A citie of y^e Brutians, called cōmonly Schilazo.

Scylax,

A Musitian of Caria.

Scylla,

A lady, daughter of Nisus king of the Megarenses. which for loue of Minos, hir fathers enimie, state a pur∣ple heare from hir fathers heade, which caused him to be vanquished. But she being forsaken of Minos, threw hirselfe into the sea, and was transformed into a birde of hir name. Scylla, is also a daungerous rocke in the sea by Sicilie whereof came this by worde.

*Decidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim,

prouerbial∣ly, to fall into one daunger, while he coueteth to eschewe an other.

Scyllaeus, a, um,

Of Scylla.

Scyllaeum,

A Promontorie or hill in the part of Graecia, nowe called Morea. Also a towne of the Brutians in Italy.

Scyllia••, or Scyllis,

The name of a Gréeke, which swim∣ming vnder water, did cutte in sunder the cables of the Persians shippes.

Scyllus, luntis,

A towne in Achaia.

Scylurus,

The name of a man that had .lxxx. sonnes, who when he dyed, called them before him and deliuered to euerye eche of them a sheffe of arrowes, commaunding them to breake the sheffe incontinent: which when they mought not doe, he tooke out of the sheffes one arrowe after another, and brake them al lightly: declaring ther∣by vnto his sonnes, that if they continued and agreed well togither, they should be puyssaunt: and if they va∣ried and were disseuered, they should be féeble, and short∣ly destroyed.

Scymnus, ni,

m. gen. A mans name.

Sceriades,

Women of the yle Scyros.

Scyritae,

People in India, which haue no noses but in the stéede of a nose, they haue two holes in their visage.

Scyricus, and Scyrius, a, um,

Of Scyros.

Scyron,

A notable robber in the countreye of Attica, who woulde sit on a high rocke, and compell them that came by to washe his féete, or else to honour him: and when they had so done, he threwe them downe into the sea. Fi∣nally, hée was slayne by Theseus, and it was surmised, that his bones being cast into the sea, were turned into great rockes, which of him were named Scyronia: and they be betwéene Attica and Megaris, whereby the pas∣sage is harde.

A certayne wynde, whose hurtfull blast, is of all Gréece knowne onely to them of Athens.

Scyron,

A notable robber in the countreye of Attica, who woulde sit on a high rocke, and compell them that came by to washe his féete, or else to honour him: and when they had so done, he threwe them downe into the sea. Fi∣nally, hée was slayne by Theseus, and it was surmised, that his bones being cast into the sea, were turned into great rockes, which of him were named Scyronia: and they be betwéene Attica and Megaris, whereby the pas∣sage is harde.

A certayne wynde, whose hurtfull blast, is of all Gréece knowne onely to them of Athens.

Scyros,

An yle in the sea called Aegeum, stonie and vnfruit∣full, where Achylles was hyd by his mother in a wo∣mans apparayle, to the intent that hée shoulde not go with the Gréekes against Troy.

Scytha,

A man or woman of Scythia. Also Hercules sonne.

Scythes,

One of Scythia. Also Iupiters sonne, which first inuented bowe and arrowes.

Scythia,

A great countrey, which is deuided wyth the ry∣uer Tanais, and stretcheth into the east, so that one part thereof is in Europa, the other in Asia, and hath on the south part Sacas and Sagdianos, people vnder the king of Persia: and on the north part, be countreys vnknowne and desert: and is now vnder the dominion of the great Cane of Cathaie. The people of this Countrey are descriued to be cruell, sauage, and wilde. They vsed no boundes of their grounde. For they neyther husbanded their land, nor occupied any priuate house. Setled place of abyding they had none: but with their wiues & chil∣dren wandred from place to place through wildernesses▪ driuing droues of beastes before them, by which especi∣allye they lyued. Their wagons, wherein they caryed their wyues and children, being couered with leather, in winter and tempestuous weathering serued them for houses. Iustice naturally and not by lawe they muche estéemed and vsed. For no offence was so grieuous a∣mong them as theft. Golde and siluer they as much des∣pised, as other countreyes gréedily desired. They sedde most on mylke and honie, and as for wooll and cloth, or the vse of apparayle they knewe not. They were called Scythae, of Scythes, one of Hercules sonnes.

Scythicus, and Scythius, a, um,

Of Scythia.

Scythis,

Patronimicum foem.

Scython,

A mans name, which when he lysted was man or woman.

Scythópolis,

A citie of Decapolitana in Syria.

Scythotauri,

People of Scythia, which sacrifice strangers that come thither.