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 930 SCHEDIA. a district, Corybissa, near Scepsis, of which other- wise nothing is known. Extensive ruins of Scepsis are believed to exist on an eminence near the villaije of J-Jskiupslii. These ruins are about 3 miles in circumference, and 8 {rates can be traced in its walls. (Foibiger, Hundhuch der Alt. Geogr. vol. ii. p. 147.) [L.S.] SCHE'DIA (SxeSi'o, Strab. xvii. pp. 800, 803), a large town dike village of Lower Egypt, situated on the great canal which connected Alexandria with the Canopic arm of the Nile, near Andropolis. At Schedia was the general custom-house for goods, ascending or descending the river, and also the .station for the splendid vessels in which the prefects visited the upper country; whence it is singular that it is not mentioned by any later writer than Strabo. Mannert (x. pt i. p. 601) seeks it on the lake of Aboukir; wliilbt I'eichardt, from the simi- kritv of the name, takes it to have been the modern Dyedie. [T. H. D.] SCHE'PJ.'. [CORCYKA.] SCHINUSSA, a small island in the Aegaean sea, one of the Sporades, S. of Naxos. (Plin.iv. 12. s. 68.) SCHISTE (j; rrxiff'^v 656%), the name of the road leading from Delphi into Central Greece, was more particularly applied to the spot where the road di- vided into two, ai'd which was called Tpels KfKivQot, reckoning the road to Delphi as one of the three. Of the other two roads, the NE. led to Daulis; the SE. parted into two, one leading to Trachis and Lebadeia, the other to Ambrysus and Stiris. At the spot where the three roads met was the tomb of Laius and his servant, who were here slain by Oedipus. It must have stood at the entrance of the ZimenS Derveni, or opening between the moun- tains Cirphis and Parna.ssus, which leads to Delphi. The road from this point becomes very steep and rugged towards Delphi, as Pausanias has described it. Aes liyl. Oed. Tyr. 733; Eurip. P/iom. 38; Paus. ix. 2. § 4, x. 5. § 3 ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 10.5.) SCHOENUS (2xo"'oi's), the name of several towns, from the reeds or rushes growing in their neighbourhood. 1. (usually 'S.xolfos), a town in Boeotia, mentioned by Homer (//. ii. 497), and placed by Stabo upon a river of the same name in the territory of Thebes, nj)on the road to Anthedon, and at the distimce of .50 stadia from Thebes. (Strab. ix. p. 408 ; Eustatb. ad he. ; Steph. B. s. v. ; Nicander, Tlwriac. 887; Plin. iv. 7. s. 12.) This river is probably the stream fiowing into the lake of Hylica fioin the valley of Moriki, and which near its mouth is covered with rushes. Nicander is clearly wrong, who makes (I. c.) the Schoenus flow into the lake Copais. (Ulrichs, Rehen, p. 258 ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. ii. p. 320.) Schoenus was the birthplace of the celebrated Atalanta, the daughter of Schoenus (Paus. viii. 35. § 10); and hence Statins gives to Schoenus the epithet of " Atalantaeus." (Stat. Theh. vii. 267.) 2. A town in the centre of Arcadia near Me- thydrium, which was said to have derived its name from the Boeotian Schoenus. (Paus. viii. 35. § 10; Steph. B. s. v.; Leake, Peloponnesiaca, p. 240.) 3. A harbour in the Corinthia. [Corintiius, p. 683, a.] 4. A river near Maroneia in Thrace, mentioned only by Mela (ii. 2. § 8). SCHOENUS, a bay on the west coast of Caria, on the south-east of the Cnidian Chersonesus, and opposite the island of Syme, (Pomp. Mela, i. 16; SCIDRUS. Plin. V. 29.) It should be observed, however, th.-it this descrij)tion of the bay of Schoenus is only con- jectural, and based upon the order in which Pliny mentions the places in that locality. [L. S.] SCIA (Sfcia: £th. S/ciei^j), a small town in Eu- boea (Steph. B. s. v. Skiixs), probably in the terri- tory of Eretria, since Pausanias (iv. 2. § 3) men- tions Scium as a district belonging to Eretria. SCIAS. [Meg.lopolis, p. 309, b.] SCIATHLS. [Pheneus, p. 595, a.] SCl'ATHUS (liciados: Eth. 'S.Kia.eios : Skuilho), a sm,all island in the Aegaean sea, N. of Euboea, and a little E. of the Magnesian coast of Thessaly, is described by Pliny as 15 miles in circumference (iv. 12. s. 23). It is said to have been originally colonised by Pelasgians from Thrace, who were succeeded by Chalcidians from Euboea. (Scynin. Ch. 584.) It po.s.sessed two towns, one of which was also called Sciathus, but the name of the other is unknown. (Scylas, p. 23, Hudson ; Strab. ix. p. 436; Ptol. iii. 13. § 47.) It is frequently men- tioned in the history of the invasion of Greece by Xerxes, since the Persian and Grecian fleets were stationed near its coasts. (Herod, vii. 176, 179, 182, 183, viii. 7.) It afterwards became one of the subject allies of Athens, but was so insignificant that it had to pay only the small tribute of 200 drachmae yearly. (Franz, Elem. Epigr. 52.) The town of Sciathus was destroyed by the last Philip of ]Iacedonia, B. c. 200, to prevent its falling into the hands of Attains and the Romans. (Liv. xxxi. 28, 45.) In the Mithridatic War it was one of the haunts of pirates. (Appian, Mithr. 29.) It was subsequently given by Antony to the Athenians. (Appian, B. C. v. 7.) Sciathus was celebrated for its wine (Atiien. i. p. 30, f ), and for a species of fish found off its coasts and called Kearpevs. (Athen. i. p. 4, c; Pollux, vi. 63.) The modern town lies in the SE. part of the island, and pos- sesses an excellent harbour. The inh.abitants have only been settled here since 1829, previous to which time their town stood in the NE. part of the island upon a rock projecting into the sea, and accessible only upon one side, as more secure against the pi- rates. Ross says tli.at the new town stands upon the site of the ancient city, but the latter was not the homonymous capital of the island, which occu- pied the site of the old town in the NE. part of the island, as appears from an inscription found there by Leake. The ancient city in the SE. of the island, upon wdiich the modern town now stands, is probably the second city mentioned by Scylax, but without a name. (Ross, Wunderimgen in Griecken- land, vol. ii. p. 50 ; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 111.) SCIDRUS (2ki5/5os: Eth. S.Kihpa.vus, Steph. B.: Sitpri), a Greek city on the coast of Lucania, on the Tyrrhenian sea, between Pyxus (Buxentum) and Laiis. It is mentioned only by Herodotus (vi. 2 1 ), from whom we learn that it was, as well as Laiis, a colony of Sybaris, and was one of the places to which the surviving inhabitants of that city retired, after its destruction by the Crotoniats. It does not appear from his expressions whether these towns were then first founded by the fugitives, or had been previously settled as regular colonies; but the latter supposition is much the more proba- ble. It is singular that no subsequent trace is f mud of Scidrus ; its name is never again men- tioned in history, nor alluded to by the geographers, with the exception of Slephauus of Byzantium