lene, a peninsula of Thrace, built by the Greeks on their return from Troy, Thucydides, Mela; near the promontory Canaftraeum, on the Sinus Thermaicus. SCIPIONIS VALLUM. See CORNELII CASTRA. SCIRADIUM, Plutarch; a promontory of Attica, on the Saronic bay. SCIRAPHIUM, Stephanus; the place where gamefters affembled, namely the temple of Minerva Sciras, in the port Phalereus; according to others, in Sciras, a Demos or borough, between Athens and Eleufis. SCIRAS, Strabo; the ancient name of the island Aegina; whence the furname of Minerva. Another Sciras, a Demos of Attica, towards Eleufis, called Scirum, Paufanias ; from Sciros, a diviner of Dodona, who fell near that place, in a battle between the Athenians and E. leufinians, and gave name alfo to an adjoining brook: he was the founder of the temple of Minerva, furnamed Sciras from him, in the Phalereus, Paufanias. SCIRATAE, Aelian; a people of In dia, among whom were found ferpents of an uncommon fize. SCIRION, a name of mount Hermon, which fee. SCIRON, Strabo; a wefterly wind, blowing from Megara, which infefted Attica; taking name from the Petrae Scironides, whence it rofe. SCIRONE, Paufanias; a road made by Sciron, when general of the Megarians, through the Saxa Scironia, enlarged by the emperor A. drian. SCIRONIA SAXA, Mela, Pliny; Sciro nides Petrae, Euripides, Strabo ; rocks above Attica to the northweft, fituate between Megara and Corinth, on the fea, taking their name from Sciron, Ovid; the head of a band of robbers, who occupied them; thrown headlong into the fea, as he himself had treated pas fengers, by Thefeus, Strabo, Plutarch, Paufanias, Diodorus Siculus. Thefe rocks were the haunt of coinmon prostitutes, Stephanus. SCIRTHAEA, Diodorus Siculus; a town of Sicily, near Triocala, famous in the Servile war. To the north of the ruins of Triocala, there stands a defolate town, called Acriflia; which from its vicinity, and fome refemblance between the names, Cluverius takes to be the ancient Scirthaea. SCIRTIANA, Antonine; a town of Macedonia, fituate between Lychnidus and Heraclea. SCIRTONES, Ptolemy; a people of Illyricum, next to Macedonia. SCIRTONIUM, Paufanias; a town of Arcadia. SCIRTUS, a river of Mefopotamia, running by Edeffa, mentioned only by the lower writers, as Procopius. SCIRUM, ? See SCIRAS. SCIRUS, S SCISSUM, Livy; or rather Ciffum, because Ciffa, Polybius, which fee. SCLAVI, Sclavini, or Slavi, Lower Writers, a people of Sarmatia Europea, a branch of the Venedi, who, in the beginning of the fixth century, occupied the countries deferted by the Goths, Vandals, and Baftarnae in the fifth century. How ancient is the appellation Slavi, does not appear; before the time of Procopius and Jornandes, no mention feems to be made of them. That the Venedi bore that name in Sarmatia, Jornandes affirms ; a name faid to come from the Sarmatic Slava, denoting fame and renown; and hence Slavi is the preferable reading to Sclavi. At this dav it obtains in almost all European languages, to use the term Slavi for the lowest and most degraded clafs of mankind, probably from the people of that name being reduced to a state of flavery by their conquerors, Spener. They gave the name of Sclavonia, to Illyricum. The Sclavonic language is at this day greatly fpread,extending from the Adriatic to the Northern Ocean, and ufed by the Iftrians, Dalmatians,Bofnians, Moravians, Bohemians, Silefians, Poles, Lithuanians, Pruffians, Ruffians, Lufatians, and Bulgarians, and by all the other neighbouring nations as far as Conftantinople. SCODRA, Livy; a town of Illyricum, the royal refidence of Gentius, to the weft of the river Drilo, and a town of Roman citizens, Pliny; Sss the the strongest and most difficult of accefs of all the towns of the Labeates, encompaffed by two rivers, the Claufula to the east, and the Barbana to the weft, running from the Palus Labeatis; both which uniting, fall together into the Oriundes, rifing from mount Scordus; a Roman colony, Coin. Now called Scutari by the Italians, Scadar by the natives; no ignoble city at this day, in Albania. E. Long. 20°, Lat. 42° 30'. SCODRUS. See SCARDUS. SCOPADAE, Scholiaft on Theocritus ; SCOPELOS, Pliny; a fmall ifland on the coaft of Troas. SCOPELUS, Ptolemy; a town of Sarmatia Afiatica, on the river Vardanus. SCOPI, Stephanus; Scupi, Ptolemy; a town of Moefia Superior. Now Scopia, commonly Ufchup; a large and well inhabited city in the foutheast of Servia, on the borders of Macedonia and Bulgaria, almost to the fouth-west of Sofia, and northweft of Theffalonica. SCOPIA, Ptolemy; a promontory of Caria, on the borders of Doris, fi tuate between Myndus and Halicarnaffus, in the extreme corner of the Sinus Jaffius; whether there was a citadel or town of this name adjoining, as should seem, is uncertain. SCOPULI TRES CYCLOPUM. See CY CLOPUM. SCOPUS, Jofephus; a place near Jerufalem, towards Gibeon and Bethoron, at the distance of seven ftadia, to the north, over-against mount Zion, in the tribe of Benjamin, remarkable in the feveral fieges of Jerufalem; as here Ceftius and Titus encamped; called Zophim by the Jews, which they interpret a place from which the temple may be seen. SCORDISCI, originally Gauls, Strabo; who under Brennus plundered Delphi, Atheneus; a people of Moefia, fituate between the Dardani to the north, and the Dalmatae to the fouth-west, Livy; a roving defultory people, id. SCORDISCUS, Ptolemy; a mountain of Cappadocia, called Armonius, Ammian. SCORDUS. See SCARDUS. SCOTI, Ammian; a people of the lower age, a colony of Saxons,mentioned in the fifth century,underHonorius in Ireland, Claudian; whom the native Irish called Daone Gaul,or Gaulte, foreign or barbarous men, and who gave name to Donegal, a province of Ireland; about the fame time, or a little before another colony of them fettled in Scotland, where they feem to have been hofpitably received by the Pecht, commonly called Picts, as appears from their joining them foon after in their incurfions on the Britons: and it is probable thefe Scots, from their fituation in Scotland, were a colony of Saxons from the continent, rather than from Ireland, those in Ireland remaining there. About the eighth century, the Scots having cut off the Picts almoft to a man, the country first came to be called Scotland. The incurfions of the Picts and Scots reduced the Britons to fuch a state of infatuation, as to cause them, in order to repel thofe incurfions, to give an invitation to the Anglo-Saxons, then acting their piracies on the coaft, whose fettlement in Britain was thus brought on. A native Highlander, unacquainted unacquainted with any other but his mother tongue, knows nothing about the names Scot and Scotland; he calls the country in general Albin; the people Albinich. SCOTITAS, Polybius, Paufanias; a grove of oaks, near Lacedaemon; fo called from Jupiter Scotitas, viciously called Scotina, Stephanus. SCOTUSA, Ptolemy; a town of Macedonia, on the Strymon, to the north of Berga; Scotuffaei, the people, Pliny; enjoying their liberty under the Romans, id. SCOTUSA, Ptolemy, Scylax, Plutarch; Scotufa, Polybius, Strabo, Livy; cognominal with that on the Strymon; a town of Theffaly, famous in the Macedonian war, fituate to the north of Atrax, a town on the Peneus, near Cynos Cephalae; Scotufaei, the people, Coin." SCRITOBINI, Scritofinni, or Scritfinni, Lower Writers; a people, fituate to the north of Scandinavia. SCULTENNA, Livy, Pliny; a river of the Cifpadana, rifing in the Apennine, and running from fouth to north into the Po at Padinum. Now Panaro, Leander. SCUPI. See SCOPI. SCYATHIS, Ptolemy; a town of the Lower Egypt, near the lake Moeris. SCYATUS. See SCIATHUS. SCYBROS, Stephanus; a fmall dif trict of Macedonia. SCYDISSES, Strabo; a very rugged mountain of Armenia Major, joining the Montes Mofchici, fituate above Colchis; the fkirts of the former are occupied by the Hepta Cometae, id. SCYLACE, Herodotus; a fmall colony of the Pelafgi, in Myfia, fituate between Cyzicum and the foot of mount Olympus, Mela. SCYLACEUM, Mela; Scylacium, Strabo, Ptolemy, Pliny; called Scylletium, originally, Strabo; a colony of Athenians, id. with a cognominal promontory Virgil; giving name to the Sinus Squilaceus, of the Bruttii in Italy. Now Squillace, a town of the Farther Calabria, in Naples. E. Long. 17°, Lat. 39o. SCYLLA, Mela, Virgil, Seneca; a rock in the Fretum Siculum, near the coaft of Italy, dangerous to hipping,oppofite to Charybdis, a whirl pool on the coast of Sicily: both of them famous in mythology. Scyllaeus, the epithet, Virgil. SCYLLAEUM, Ptolemy; a promontory of Argolis, fituate on the road from Troezen to Hermione, Paufanias. Another, of the Bruttii, in Italy, Pliny; but whether promontory, rock, or town, uncertain. Pliny and Solinus call it a town; Ptolemy, a promontory; probably the Scylla of Mela; Strabo, a high rock, exhibiting the refemblance of a peninfula; but Scyllaeum, mountain and rock, seem to be the fame with the fabulous Scylla. The fable of its barking dogs,is owing to the frightened imagination of failors, from the noise made by the dashing waves, Justin. SCYLLETIUM. See SCYLACEUM. SCYMNITAE, Diodorus, Ptolemy; a people of Sarmatia Afiatica, fituate between the Montes Hippici and the river Rha. SCYPHIA, Stephanus ; a town in the territory of the Clazomenians SCYRAS, Paufanias; a river of Laconica, emptying itself into the fea. SCYRMUS, Stephanus; a town near Cyzicum, in the Hither Afia. SCYROs, Strabo, Pliny; an island in the Egean fea, oppofite to the middle of Euboea to the east, with a cognominal town, Ptolemy. The country of king Lycomedes; where Achilles, in the habit of a girl, was educated and lay concealed, to prevent going to the fiege of Troy; who debauched Deidamia,the king's daughter, and by her had Pyrrhus, Ovid. Famous alfo for the death and place of exile of Thefeus, king of Athens, Valerius Maximus. Anciently inhabited by the Dolopes, a race of intolerable robbers, expelled by Cimon the Athenian, Thucydides, Plutarch. A barren, rocky inland; hence nude, rocky, Hefychius; and Exuçúrn 'os, Pindar; a paved road, Scholiaft. Scyrius, the epithet, and Scyrias, ados, feminine, Ovid. Scyrius Principatus, a fmall dominion, Scyria Capra, Zenodorus, the returning a disfavour for a kindnefs. Now Sciro. E. Long. 25°, Lat. 38° 15'. SCYTHAE, the fame with the Sarmatae, an appellation applied both to thofe thofe of Europe and Asia; in Europe occupying the country from the mouth of the Danube to the Tanais: but in general appropriated to the northern people, efpecially thofe of Afia, the Scythae of Europe being called Getae, or Sarmatae, and thofe of Afia for the most part Scythae; though the ancient Greek authors called all the people to the north indifcriminately Scythae. SCYTHENI, Xenophon; a people of Colchis, bordering on the Macro nes. SCYTHIA ASIATICA, Ptolemy; a country beginning on the weft, from the Bosporus Cimmerius, the Palus Maeotis, the river Tanais, and extending between the Northern Ocean,the Pontus Euxinus,the Cafpian Sea, and the river Jaxartes on the fouth, and the mountains of India on the eaft, quite to the Seres, and therefore its limits not every where perfectly known, bordering either on the ocean in the north, or on fome unknown country on the east; if at the fame time we include the Seres as a branch of the Scythians, its real bounds according to Ptolemy, are a terra incognita; who divides the whole into three parts, namely, the Hithermoft, extending between the Palus Maeotis and the mouth of the Tanais on the weft, and a part of the Cafpian fea, and the river Rha, now the Wolga, on the eaft, and this is what he calls Sarmatia in Afia: and then the fecond part begins thence, and extends to mount Imaus, called Scythia intra Imaum: the third, and farthermoft is Scythia extra Imaum, to which alfo Serica is annexed. SCYTHIA EUROPAEA. See SARMA TIA. SCYTHIA, a part of Moefia. See PoN. TUS. SCYTHIA PARVA, Strabo; the country lying between the mouth of the Ifter and Borythenes. But Herodotus extends it from the Ifter, to the town Carcine, fituate to the north of the Sinus Carcinites, and calls it Scythia Vetus. SCYTHICACHERSONNESUS. See TAU RICA. SCYTHICUM LITUS, Mela; the coaft of the fea bounding Scythia on the north. SCYTHICUM PROMONTORIUM, Mela; a promontory of Cantabria, in the Hither Spain. Now Cabo de Penas, in Afturia. SCYTHICUS OCEANUS, Mela; the ocean to the north of Scythia. SCYTHOPOLIS, Jofephus; the more modern name of Bethfan, which fee. SCYTHRANIUS, Ptolemy; Cyrthaneus, Scylax; a port of Marmarica, in Africa, a day's fail from Menelaus, Scylax. SEBA. See SABEE. SEBASTE. See ELEUSA. SEBASTE, a town in Galatia, in the territory of the Tectofages, for which there is no authority; for Sebafleni, the people, we have Pliny, and an ancient Infcription. Another Sebafie, of Phrygia Magna, Notitia, Hierocles. A third, of Pontus, the more modern name of Cabira, which fee. A fourth Sebafte, Jofephus; Samaria, thus called by Herod, in honour of Auguftus. See SAMARIA. SEBASTIA, called a fmall city of the Regio Pontica by Pliny; with the enfigns of a confiderable city in Peutinger's map, and written Sevaflia; fituate to the weft of Cabira. SEBASTOPOLIS, Pliny; Myrina lo called, which fee. Alfo Sebaftopolis, a citadel of Colchis, two days journey from Pityus, mentioned by Ptolemy and by the Lower Writers. SEBASTOPOLIS, Ptolemy, Pliny; a town of the Regio Pontica, fituate on the Iris, to the weft of Sebaftia. SEBATUM, Antonine; a town of Rhaetia, fituate on the Athefis, to the weft of Aguntum, and north of Sublabio. SEBEDA, Stephanus ; a port of Lycia, SEBENDUNUM, Ptolemy; a town of the Caftellani, in the Hither Spain; by fome ten to be Tamp, by o thers Campredon, in Catalonia. SEBENNYTES NOMOS, Ptolemy; a divifion of the Lower Egypt; fo called from the town Sebennytus, Stephanus; fituate on the east fide of the the Thermuthic branch of the Nile, and giving name to the Oftium Sebennyticum, the third mouth of that river, reckoning from the weft, with a cognominal lake called alfo Sebennytus, near that mouth, Strabo. SEBETHUS, Vibius Sequefter, Statius; a river of Campania, running by Neapolis, or Naples; Sebethis, idos, Virgil, Columella; the nymph prefiding over the river. Now vulgarly called il Fornello, and alfo il Fiume della Madalena, because running below a bridge named from that faint. SEBINUS, and Servinus, Pliny; a lake of the Tranfpadana, which transImits the river Ollius into the Po, fituate between the Larius to the weft, and the Benacus to the east. Now called Lago d' Ifeo; from a town of that name lying upon it, anciently thought to have been called Sebum or Sevum. SEBRITAE, or Sembritae, Stephanus ; a people of the Higher Egypt, near Meroe. SEBUM, or Sevum, a town of the Tranfpadana, fituate at the lower or fouth part of the Lacus Sebinus, for which there is no authority, only a probability there was fuch a town, giving name to the Lacus Sebinus, authorised by Pliny. The town is now called Iseo. SECELLA, Jofephus. See ZICLAG. SECOR, Ptolemy; an obfcure port of the Pictones, in Aquitania; what it is now, is hard to determine. SECORA, Ptolemy; an inland town of Paphlagonia, to the north. SECURISCA, Antonine; vitiously Securifpa, Peutinger; a town of Moefia Inferior; fituate towards Oefcus, whether now extant uncertain. SECUSIA CIVITAS. See SEGUSIO. SEDECULA, Cicero; a village of the Bruttii. Now Segiola, in the Farther Calabria, Barrius; near Napitia. what point not mentioned by Caefar; they are fuppofed to have been to the fouth. Civitas Sedunorum, Infcription; the community or state of the Seduni. In the lower age, the name of the people became that of a town, namely Seduni, afterwards called Sedunum. Now Sion, a town, in the Valais, or Valefine. E. Long. 7° 20', Lat. 46° 15′. SEDUSII, Caefar; a people of Germany, neighbours to the Marcomani, fituate between the Rhine, the Danube, juft fresh from its fource, and the confluence of the Nicer or Neckar. SEGALA UNI, Ptolemy; Segovellauni, Pliny; a people of Gallia Narbonenfis, fituate between the Vocontä to the east, Allobroges to the north, the Helvetii to the weft, and the Tricaftini to the fouth. Now the Valentinois, in Dauphiné. SEGEDA, Appian; a great and powerful city of the Hither Spain, on the confines of the Belli, a branch. of the Celtiberi, Strabo; fuppofed by Moralis to be the Segeftica of Livy. Segida, Strabo, Stephanus: faid to be now extinct, its ruins ftill retaining the appellation Segeda, on an eminence above Canales, a village in that tract. SEGEDUNUM, Ptolemy, Peutinger; a town of the Ruteni, a people of Gallia Aquitanica. It afterwards affumed the name of the people Ruteni, and Urbs Rutena. Now Rodez, in Guienne. E. Long. 2° 8', Lat. 44° 20'. SEGEDUNUM, Notitia; a town of the Ottadini, on the caft fide of Britain, to the fouth of Antonine's wall and the mouth of the Tine. Now called Seton, in Northumberland, by a contraction of the old name. SEGESTA. See ACESTA. SEGESTA TIGULIORUM, Pliny, Iti. neraries; a town on the coaft of Liguria. Now called Seftri, a fmall town in the Levante, or eaft fide of the territory of Genoa, fituate on a fmall promontory. SEGESTANORUM EMPORIUM. AEGESTANUM. See SEGESTE, or Segeflica Urbs, Strabo; a town of Pannonia Superior, fituate on the north fide of the river Savus, where it forms an island, called |
