A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

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4en. iii. 484, xii. 120, who in the latter passage equipment of a powerful fleet, to carry on operations
luotes from "Scaurus de Vita sua;" Ritschl, de against the Illyrian king. Scerdilaidas, alarmed at,et. Plauti interpret. in his Parergon Plautin. these tidings, applied for assistance to the Romans,'ol. i. p. 357, &c.) [W. R.] who were favourably disposed towards him from
SCEPHRUS (:Kc'ppos), a son of Tegeates and jealousy of Philip, but were too hard pressed at
Vlaera, and brother of Leimon. When Apollo and home to furnish him any effectual succour. They,
Irtemis took vengeance upon those who had ill- however, in the summer of B. c. 216, sent a squareated Latona, while she was wandering about in dron of ten ships to his support, and the very name
ter pregnancy; and when they came into the of a Roman fleet struck such a terror into Philip
ountry of the Tegeatans, Apollo had a secret con- that he abandoned the Adriatic, and retired, with
ersation with Scephrus. Leimon, suspecting that his whole fleet, to Cephallenia (Polyb. v. 3, 95,;cephrus was plotting against him, slew his brother, 101, 108, 110). But during the following years
*nd Artemis punished the murderer by sudden his Roman allies were able to give little assistance'eath. Tegeates and Maera immediately offered to the Illyrian king, and Philip wrested from him:p sacrifices to Apollo and Artemis; but the the important fortress of Lissus, as well as a conountry was nevertheless visited by a famine, and siderable part of his dominions. In B. c. 211 Scerhe god of Delphi ordered that Scephrus should be dilaidas joined the alliance of the Aetolians with
onoured with funereal solemnities. From that the Romans, but his part in the war which folime, it is said, a part of the solemnities at the fes- lowed appears to have been confined to threatening
ival of Apollo Agyieus at Tegea, was performed in and infesting the Macedonian frontiers by occasional
onour of. Scephrus, and the priestess of Artemis predatory incursions (Liv. xxvi. 24, xxvii. 30,
ursued a man as Artemis had pursued Leimon. xxviii. 5; Polyb. x. 41). It would appear that
Pans. viii. 53. ~ 1.) [L. S.] he must have died before the peace of 204, as his
SCERDILAIDAS, or SCERDILAEDUS. name, which is coupled with that of his son PleuiKcep&tAaGars or:KsepStAaiLos. Concerning the ratus, during the negotiations in B. C. 208, does not
arious forms of the name see Schweighiiuser, ad appear in the treaty concluded by P. Sempronius'olyb. ii. 5. ~ 6. Bekker, in his recent edition of with the Macedonian king (see Liv. xxvii. 30,'olybius, retains the form YIKWp&aL3oOS.) xxix. 12). HIe left a son, PLEURATUS, who suc1. A king of Illyria, who was in all probability ceeded him on the throne.
son of Pleuratus, and younger brother of Agron, 2. A son of Gentius, king of Illyria, who was
oth of them kings of that country (see Schweigh- taken prisoner and carried captive to Rome, togeuser, 1. c.). He is first mentioned shortly after ther with his father and his brother Pleuratus.
le death of Agron, as commanding a force sent by (Liv. xliv. 32.) [E. H. B.]'euta, the widow of that monarch, against Epeirus, SCEVI'NUS, FLA/VIUS. [SCAEVINUS.]. c. 230. He advanced through the passes of SCHE'DIUS (Exe4'os). 1. A son of Iphitus
Ltintania, defeated an army which the Epeirots by Hippolyte, commanded the Phocians in the war
pposed to him, and penetrated as far as Phoenice, against Troy, along with his brother Epistrophus.
rhen he was recalled by Teuta to oppose the Dar- (Hom. //. ii. 517, &c.) Apollodorus (iii. 1 0. ~ 8)
anians (Polyb. ii. 5, 6). At this time he was calls Epistrophus the father of Schedius. I-e was
[early in a private station, and the period at which slain by Hector (II. xvii. 306, &c.; Paus. x. 4.
e assumed the sovereignty is uncertain; but it ~ 1), and his remains were carried from Troy to
rems probable that, after the defeat and abdication Anticyra in Phocis. He was represented in the
f Teuta (B. C. 229), ScerdilaYdas succeeded to a Lesche at Delphi. (Paus. x. 30. ~ 2, 36, in fin.)
ortion of her dominions, though at first without 2. A son of Perimedes, likewise a Phocian who
re title of king, which he probably did not assume was killed at Troy by IHector. (Hom. II. xv. 515;
11 after the death of his nephew Pinnes, on whom comp. Strab. ix. p. 424.) [L. S.]
re Romans had bestowed the sovereignty, under SCHOENEUS (eXovev's), a son of Athamas
ie guardianship of Demetrius of Pharos (see and Themisto, was king in Boeotia and father of
chweighiiuser, ad Polyb. 1. c.). In B. C. 220 we Atalante and Clymenus (Apollod. i. 8. ~ 2, 9. ~ 2,
nd him joining with Demetrius in a predatory ex- iii. 9. ~ 2). The town of Schoenus is said to have
edition against the Achaeans, and concluding a derived its name from him. (Paus. viii. 35. ~ 8;
~eaty with the Aetolians against that people: but Steph. Byz. s. v.) Another personage of this
e quickly became dissatisfied with the conduct of name occurs in Anton. Lib. 10. [L. S.]
is new allies, and was, in consequence, induced SCI'PIO, the name of an illustrious patrician
y Philip to change sides, and conclude an alliance family of the Cornelia gens. This name, which
rith the Macedbnian monarch (Polyb. iv. 16, 29). signifies a stick or staff, is said to have been orin the spring of 218 he sent a small squadron to ginally given to a Cornelius, because he served as
he support of Philip, but he appears to have ren- a staff in directing his blind father (patrenz pro
ered him little efficient assistance, either on that baculo regebat), and to have been handed down by
r any subsequent occasion during the war. Not- him as a family name to his descendants (Macrob.
rithstanding this he claimed from the Macedonian Sat. i. 6). This family produced some of the
ing his promised share of the booty, and conceiv- greatest men in Rome, and to them she was more
rg himself aggrieved in this respect, in the follow- indebted than to any others for the empire of the
ag year (B. c. 217) he turned his arms against world. The Scipios, like many other Roman'hilip, captured by treachery some of his ships, families, possessed a burial-place in which all the
nd made an inroad into Macedonia itself, where members of the family were interred (Cic. Tusc. i.
e made himself master of some of the frontier 7). This family-tomb, which was near the Porta
owns. Philip, who was at this time in the Pelo- Capena, was discovered in 1780, and is one of the
lonnese, hastened to the relief of his own domi- most interesting remains of the republican period.
ions. and having quickly recovered the places he It was discovered on the left of the Appia Via,
ad lost, occupied himself during the winter in the about 400 paces within the modern Porta S Se3s 2