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scaenŏgrăphī̆a, ae, f., = σκηνογραφία, a drawing in perspective: scaenographia est frontis et laterum abscedentium adumbratio ad circinique centrum omnium linearum responsus, Vitr. 1, 2, 2 Rode. (Others read scĭāgrăphī̆a, σκιᾶγραφία, in the same signif.)

scĭădeus, ĕi, m., and scĭaena, ae, f., = σκιαδεύς and σκίαινα, the male and female of a sea-fish; perh. a kind of grayling or ombre: Salmo thymallus, Linn.; Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 151.

scĭaena, ae, v. sciadeus.

scĭāgrăphĭa, ae, v. scenographia fin.

Sciāpŏdes (Scĭŏpŏdes), um, m., = Σκιάποσες, a fabulous people in Libya, with monstrously large soles to their feet, which they were said to turn up and use as umbrellas, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 23; Tert. Apol. 8; Aug. Civ. Dei, 16, 8.

Scĭăthos (-us), i, f., = Σκίαθος, a small island in the Sinus Thermaicus, with a town of the same name, now still Skiatho, Mel. 2, 7; Plin. 4, 12, 23, § 72; Liv. 31, 28; 31, 45; 44, 13; Val. Fl. 2, 8.