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734 SCAMANDRITS. SCAPTIUS.
in which Scaevola was opposed to L. Licinius SCAMON (1KdAWYv), of Mytilene, wrote a
Crassus, his former colleague (de Or. i. 39, work on inventions (IIep1 EVp/ua'dTwv), of which
Brutus, 39, 52; CRASSUs, No. 23). the first book is quotod by Athenaeus (xiv. pp.
Q. Scaevola the pontifex is the first Roman to 630, b, 637, b; see also Clem. Alex. Strom. i. p.
whom we can attribute a scientific and systematic 132; Euseb. Praep. Ev. x. 7; Vossius, de Hist.
handling of the Jus Civile, which he accomplished Graec. p. 495, ed. Westermann).
in a work in eighteen books (Jus civile primus con- P. SCANDI'LIUS, a Roman eques, oppressed
stituit generatim in libros decem et octo redigendo; by Verres at Syracuse. (Cic. Verr. iii. 58-61.)
Pomponius). This work had doubtless a great SCAINTIA. 1. A woman whom Clodius threateffect both on his contemporaries and on the ened with death, unless she surrendered her garwritings of subsequent jurists, who frequently dens to him. (Cic. pro Mil. 27.)
cited it, and probably followed it as a model. 2. A Vestal Virgin, in the reign of Tiberius.
Another work of his is also mentioned by Pompo- (Tac. Ann. iv. 16.)
nius, Liber Singularis, 7repl'powv, a work on SCANTILLA, MA'NLIA, the wife of the
Definitions, or perhaps rather, short rules of law, emperor Didius Julianus. She received and enfrom which there are four excerpts in the Digest joyed the title of Augusta during the brief period
(Dig. 41. tit. 1. s. 64; 43. tit. 20. s. 8; 50. tit. 16. of her husband's elevation. [JULIANUS.] [W. R.]
s. 241; and tit. 17. s. 73). This is the oldest
work from which there are any excerpts in the
Digest, and even these may have been taken at?~~
second-hand. The work on the Jus Civile was
commented on by Servius Sulpicius, Laelius Felix ni
(Gell. xv. 27), Pomponius, and Modestinus. X o
The chief hearer (auditor) of Scaevola was C.
Aquilius Gallus, the colleague of Cicero in the
praetorship (B. C. 64). Cicero himself, a diligent
attendant on Scaevola, was not, and did not profess to be a jurist. As pontifex maximus Scae- COIN OF SCANTILLA.
vola must also have been skilled in the Jus
Pontificium, and Cicero refers to him as his autho- SCANTI'NIUS. 1. C. SCANTINIUS CAPITOrity on these matters (de Leg. ii. 20). The LINUS, aedile about B. c. 226, was accused by
Cautio /luciana, which is mentioned in the Digest, M. Claudius Marcellus, his colleague in the aedilewas devised by this Scaevola. It was a cautio, or ship, of having made infamous proposals to his son
security, originally applied to the case of certain Marcus, and was condemned to the payment of a
conditional legacies; but afterwards to cases when heavy fine. This is the account of Plutarch,
a heres was instituted sub conditione. (Dig. 35. which seems preferable to that of Valerius Maxitit. 1. s. 7, 77, 79, &c.) mus, who makes Scantinius tribune of the people
Scaevola is one of those illustrious men whose at the time of his condemnation. (Plut. 21larc. 2;
fame is not preserved by his writings, but in the more Val. Max. vi. 1. ~ 7.)
enduring monument of the memory of all nations 2. P. SCANTINIUS, a pontifex, who died in B. C.
to whom the language of Rome is known. [G. L.] 216. (Liv. xxiii. 21.)
SCAE'VOLA, P. SEPTI'MIUS, a Roman 3. SCANTINIUS, a tribune, but in what year is
senator, condemned in the praetorship of Horten- unknown, proposed a law to suppress unnatural
sius, B. C. 72, on a charge of repetundae, but in crimes. Some persons suppose that this law dereality because he had been one of the judices who rived its name from Scantinins Capitolinus spoken
were bribed by Cluentius, in B.C. 74, to condemn of above [No. 1]; but such a way of naming a
Oppianicus. (Cic. Verr. Act. i. 13, pro Cluent. 41.) lex would be contrary to Roman usage, though it is
SCAEUS (UKaos), one of the sons of Hippo- a curious coincidence that the person condemned
coon. (Paus. iii. 14. ~ 7; Herod. v. 60; Apollod. on account of this crime should bear the same
iii. 10. ~ 5; comp. HIPPOCOON.) [L. S.] name as the lex. It was under this lex that
SCAMANDER (IKacdav8pos), the god of the M. Caelius Rufus brought an accusation against
river Scamander, in Troas, was called by the gods App. Claudius the censor (Cael. ad Fans. viii. 12,
Xanthus. Being insulted by Achilles, he entered 14). This lex is mentioned by other writers.
into a contest with the Greek hero; but Hera (Juv. ii. 44; Suet. Dom. 8; Auson. Epigr. 88;
sent out Hephaestus to assist Achilles, and the god Tertullian. de Monogam. 12.)
of fire dried up the waters of Scamander, and SCA'NTIUS, a learned man cited by Varro in
frightened Scamander, until Hera ordered He- one of his lost works. (Varr. Fraile. p. 275, ed.
phaestus to spare the river-god. (Hom. II. xx. 74, Bip.)
xxi. 136, &c.; Hes. Theog. 345.) [L. S.] SCA'PTIUS. 1. P. SCAPTIUS. It is related
SCAMANDER, the freedman of C. Fabricius, that the inhabitants of Aricia and Ardea having a
was accused, in B. C. 74, of having attempted to dispute about certain land, made the Roman people
administer poison to Cluentius. He was defended the arbiters; and that the latter, upon the testiby Cicero in a speech which is lost, but was con- mony and advice of P. Scaptius, adjudged that
demned. (Cic. pro Cluent. 16-20.) the land belonged to neither of these people, but to
SCAMA'NDRIUS (2ctacua'V3pios). 1. The son themselves, B. C. 466 (Liv. iii. 71, 72; Dionys.
of Hector and Andromache, whom the people of xi. 52). But as the district in question lay in the
Troy called Astyanax, because his father was the region of the Scaptian tribe, Niebuhr observes that
protector of the city of Troy. (Hom. II. vi. 402; it is very doubtful whether such a person as ScapPlat. Cratyl. p. 392; Strab. xiii. p. 607.) tius ever existed. He also makes. some other re2. A Trojan, a son of Strophius. (Hom. II. v. marks upon the tale which are worth reading.
49.) [L. S.] (Hist. of Rome, vol. ii. p. 449, note 985.)