nd. As this part is very hilly and barren, it is unfit
for tillage; and the inhabitants used to live a roving life on the
produce of the chase, their chief employment being the rearing of
cattle.

_Scots_ (_The Royal_). The hundred cuirassiers, called _hommes des
armes_, which formed the body-guard of the French king, were sent to
Scotland in 1633, by Louis XIII., to attend the coronation of Charles
I., at Edinburgh. On the outbreak of the civil war, eight years
afterwards, these cuirassiers loyally adhered to the crown, and received
the title of "The Royal Scots." At the downfall of the king, the _hommes
des armes_ returned to France.

=Scott= (_The Southern_). Ariosto is so called by Lord Byron.

First rose
The Tuscan father's "comedy divine" [_Dant[^e]_];
Then, not unequal to the Florentine,
The southern Scott, the minstrel who called forth
A new creation with his magic line,
And, like the Ariosto of the north [_Sir W. Scott_],
Sang ladye-love and war, romance and knightly worth.

Byron, _Childe Harold_, iv. 40 (1817).

[Asterism] Dante was born at Florence.

=Scott of Belgium= (_The Walter_), Hendrick Conscience (1812- ).

=Scottish Anacreon= (_The_), Alexander Scot is so called by Pinkerton.

=Scottish Boanerges= (_The_), Robert and James Haldane (nineteenth
century). Robert died 1842, aged 79, and James 1851.

=Scottish Hogarth= (_The_), David Allan (1744-1796).

=Scottish Homer= (_The_), William Wilkie, author of an epic poem in rhyme,
entitled _The Epigoniad_ (1753).

=Scottish Solomon= (_The_), James VI. of Scotland, subsequently called
James I. of England (1566, 1603-1625).

[Asterism] The French king called him far more aptly, "The Wisest Fool
in Christendom."

=Scottish Terriers= (_The_), Sir David Wilkie (1785-1841).

=Scottish Theoc'ritos= (_The_), Allan Ramsay (1685-1758).

=Scotus.= There were two schoolmen of this name: (1) John Scotus
_Erigena_, a native of Ireland, who died 886, in the reign of King
Alfred; (2) John Duns Scotus, a Scotchman, who died 1308. Longfellow
confounds these two in his _Golden Legend_ when he attributes the Latin
version of _St. Dionysius_, _the Areopagite_, to the latter schoolman.

And done into Latin by that Scottish beast,
Erigena Johannes.

Longfellow, _The Golden Legend_ (1851).

=Scourers=, a class of dissolute young men, often of the better class, who
infested