ures
are very similar to those of Gil Blas himself, but he never rises to the
same level. Scipio begins by being a rogue, who pilfered and plundered
all who employed him, but in the service of Gil Blas he was a model of
fidelity and integrity.--Lesage, _Gil Blas_ (1715).

=Sciro'nian Rocks=, between Meg'ara and Corinth. So called because the
bones of Sciron, the robber of Attica, were changed into these rocks
when Theseus (2 _syl._) hurled him from a cliff into the sea. It was
from these rocks that Ino cast herself into the Corinthian bay.--_Greek
Fable._

=Scirum.= The men of Scirum used to shoot against the stars.

Like ... men of wit bereaven,
Which howle and shoote against the lights of heaven.

Wm. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, iv. (1613).

=Scogan= (_Henry_), M.A., a poet, contemporary with Chaucer. He lived
in the reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., and probably Henry V. Among
the gentry who had letters of protection to attend Richard II. in
his expedition into Ireland, in 1399, is "Henricus Scogan,
Armiger."--Tyrwhitt's _Chaucer_, v. 15 (1773).

Scogan? What was he?
Oh, a fine gentleman and a master of arts
Of Henry the Fourth's time, that made disguises
For the king's sons, and writ in ballad royal
Daintily well.

Ben Jonson, _The Fortunate Isles_ (1626).

_Scogan_ (_John_), the favorite jester and buffoon of Edward IV.
"Scogan's jests" were published by Andrew Borde, a physician in the
reign of Henry VIII.

The same Sir John [_Falstaff_], the very same. I saw him break
Skogan's head at the court-gate, when he was a crack not thus
high.--Shakespeare, 2 _Henry IV._ act iii. sc. 2.

[Asterism] Shakespeare has confounded Henry Scogan, M.A., the poet, who
lived in the reign of Henry IV., with John Scogan, the jester, who lived
about a century later, in the reign of Edward IV.; and, of course, Sir
John Falstaff, could not have known him when "he was a mere crack."

=Scogan's Jest.= Scogan and some companions, being in lack of money,
agreed to the following trick: A peasant, driving sheep, was accosted by
one of the accomplices, who laid a wager that his sheep were hogs, and
agreed to abide by the decision of the first person they met. This, of
course, was Scogan, who instantly gave judgment against the herdsman.

A similar joke is related in the _Hitopadesa_, an abridged version of
Pilpay's _Fables_. In this case, the "peas