Simon'd[^e]s, born at Scia, or Cea, now _Zia_, one
of the Cyclades.

The Scian and the Teian Muse [_Anacreon_] ...
Have found the fame your shores refuse.

Byron, _Don Juan_, iii. ("The Isles of Greece," 1820).

=Science= (_The prince of_), Tehuhe, "The Aristotle of China" (died A.D.
1200).

=Scio= (now called _Chios_), one of the seven cities which claimed to be
the birthplace of Homer. Hence he is sometimes called "Scio's Blind Old
Bard." The seven cities referred to make an hexameter verse:

Smyrna, Chios, Coloph[^o]n, Salamis, Rhodos, Argos, Athenae; _or_
Smyrna, Chios, Coloph[^o]n, Ithac[^a], Pylos, Argos, Athenae.

Antipater Sidonius, _A Greek Epigram_.

=Sciol'to= (3 _syl._), a proud Genoese nobleman, the father of Calista.
Calista was the bride of Altamont, a young man proud and fond of her,
but it was discovered on the wedding day that she had been seduced by
Lothario. This led to a series of calamities: (1) Lothario was killed in
a duel by Altamont; (2) a street riot was created, in which Sciolto
received his death-wound; and (3) Calista stabbed herself.--N. Rowe,
_The Fair Penitent_ (1703).

(In Italian, _Sciolto_ forms but two syllables, but Rowe has made it
three in every case.)

=Scipio= "dismissed the Iberian maid" (Milton, _Paradise Regained_, ii.).
The poet refers to the tale of Scipio's restoring a captive princess to
her lover, Allucius, and giving to her, as a wedding present, the money
of her ransom. (See CONTINENCE.)

During his command in Spain a circumstance occurred which
contributed more to his fame and glory than all his military
exploits. At the taking of New Carthage, a lady of extraordinary
beauty was brought to Scipio, who found himself greatly affected by
her charms. Understanding, however, that she was betrothed to a
Celtib[=e]rian prince named Allucius, he resolved to conquer his
rising passion, and sent her to her lover without recompense. A
silver shield, on which this interesting event is depicted, was
found in the river Rhone by some fishermen in the seventeenth
century.--Goldsmith, _History of Rome_, xiv. 3. (Whittaker's
improved edition contains a fac-simile of the shield on p. 215.)

_Scipio_, son of the gypsy woman, Coscol[=i]na, and the soldier,
Torribio Scipio. Scipio becomes the secretary of Gil Blas, and settles
down with him at "the castle of Lirias." His character and advent