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Scaea porta, ae, f., = Σκαιαὶ πύλαι, the Scœan (western, σκαιός) gate of Troy; Verg. A. 3, 351; Sil. 13, 73; also, acc. to the Greek, in the plur.: Scaeae portae, Verg. A. 2, 612.
As subst.: Scaeae, the Scœan gate: Astyanax Scaeis dejectus ab altis, Aus. Epit. Her. 15, 3.

scaena, ae (falsely scēna, v. Prol. in Verg. p. 387 Rib.), f., = σκηνή.

  1. I. Lit., the stage, boards, scene of a theatre: dum histrio in scaenă siet, Plaut. Poen. prol. 20: in scaenă esse Roscium intellegat, Cic. Brut. 84, 290: foris hic extra scaenam fient proelia, Plaut. Capt. prol. 60: cum scaena croco Cilici perfusa recens est, Lucr. 2, 416: scaenaique simul varios splendere decores, id. 4, 983: scaenae magnificentia, Cic. Mur. 19, 38: nec vero scaena solum referta est his sceleribus, id. N. D. 3, 27, 69: vel scaena ut versis discedat frontibus, Verg. G. 3, 24; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 205 et saep.
    Plur.: columnas excidunt, scaenis decora alta futuris, a theatre, Verg. A. 1, 429: aut Agamemnonius scaenis agitatus Orestes, on the stage, i. e. in tragedies, Verg. A. 4, 471: aut agitur res in scaenis, Hor. A. P. 179.
    1. B. Transf.
      1. 1. Of a place like a scene of a theatre, Verg. A. 1, 164.
      2. 2. (Post-Aug.) Of the schools of rhetoric, as scenes for the display of eloquence: at nunc adulescentuli deducuntur in scaenas scholasticorum, qui rhetores vocantur, Tac. Or. 35; cf. Plin Ep. 7, 17, 9.
  2. II. Trop.
      1. 1. The public stage, the public: quia maxima quasi oratori scaena videatur contionis, Cic. de Or. 2, 83, 338; id. Planc. 12, 29: ubi se a vulgo et scaena in secreta remorant Virtus Scipiadae et mitis sapientia Laeli, Hor. S. 2, 1, 71.
        Prov.: scaenae servire, to show one’s self, live in the public eye, Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 8, 2.
      2. 2. Outward show, parade, pretext: scaena rei totius haec: Pompeius, tamquam Caesarem non impugnet, etc., Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 3; cf.: ne quid scaenae deesset, Petr. 117, 10; Suet. Calig. 15: scaenam ultro criminis parat, Tac. A. 14, 7 fin.
      3. 3. Appearance, character: scaenam quam sponte sumpserat cum animă retinens, App. M. 4, 20, p. 151, 29.

scaenālis, e, adj. [scaena], of or belonging to the stage, scenic, theatrical (very rare for scaenicus): species, Lucr. 4, 77: frondes, Poët. ap. Anth. Lat. 2, p. 48 Burm.

scaenārĭus, a, um, adj. [scaena], of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical (late Lat. for scaenicus): artifices, i. e. players, Amm. 28, 4, 32: PICTOR, i. e. a scenepainter, Inscr. Murat. 948, 4.

* scaenātĭcus, i, m. [scaena], a stageplayer: ut comici, cinaedici, scaenatici, Varr. ap. Non. 176, 19.

* scaenātĭlis, e, adj. [scaena], for scenicus, of or belonging to the stage, Varr. ap Non. 176, 18 (an unintelligible passage).

scaenĭcē, adv., v. scaenicus fin.

† scaenĭcus (scen-), a, um, adj., = σκηνικός, of or belonging to the stage, scenic, dramatic, theatrical (class.).

  1. I. Lit.: poëtae, dramatic poets, Varr. L. L. 9, § 17 Müll.: artifices, players, actors, Cic. Arch. 5, 10; Suet. Caes. 84: actores, Quint. 6, 1, 26; 11, 3, 4: ludi, stage-plays, theatrical representations, in a gen. sense (opp. to games of wrestling, racing, etc.), Liv. 7, 2; 31, 4; 34, 54; Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 37; Suet. Calig. 26; id. Ner. 11; cf. operae (with gladiatoriae), id. Aug. 43: fabula, a drama, Amm. 28, 1, 4: organa, Suet. Ner. 44: coronae, id. ib. 53: habitus, id. ib. 38: gestus, Cic. de Or. 3, 59, 220: modulatio, Quint. 11, 3, 57: venustas, Cic. de Or. 3, 8, 30: decor quidam, Quint. 2, 10, 13: dicacitas (with scurrilis), id. 6, 3, 29: fortuna dubia, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 8: adulteria, represented on the stage, Ov. Tr. 2, 514.
    In the neutr.: quin etiam, quod est inprimis frivolum ac scaenicum, verbum petant (declamatores), quo incipiant, Quint. 10, 7, 21: nihil scaenicum apud Graecos pudori est, Liv. 24, 24; cf., with a subject-clause: complodere manus scaenicum est et pectus caedere, Quint. 11, 3, 123.
    1. B. Substt.
      1. 1. scaē-nĭcus, i, m., a player, actor, Cic. Off. 1, 31, 114: orator plurimum aberit a scaenico (with comoedi), Quint. 1, 11, 3; Suet. Ner. 42 fin.
        Plur., Cic. Planc. 12, 30; id. Verr. 2, 3, 79, § 184; Quint. 11, 3, 158; Suet. Tib. 34; id. Ner. 11; 21 et saep.
        As a term of reproach applied to Nero (on account of his passion for the stage), a stage-hero, Tac. A. 15, 59.
      2. 2. scaenĭca, ae, f., a female player, an actress, Cod. Just. 5, 27, 1; Ambros. Obit. Valent. § 17.
  2. * II. Transf. (opp. to real, true, actual), fictitious, pretended: populus Romanus, invictus a veris regibus, ab illo imaginario et scaenico rege (sc. Andrisco) superatur, by that theatrical king, Flor. 2, 14, 4.
    * Adv.: scaenĭcē, theatrically, after the manner of players: cum aliqua velut scaenice fiunt, Quint. 6, 1, 38.

† 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.)

1. scaeva, ae, f., v. scaevus.

2. scaeva, ae, m. [scaevus], a lefthanded person, Dig. 21, 1, 12; cf. Scaevola.

3. Scaeva, ae, m. [2. scaeva], a Roman surname, e. g. D. Junius Brutus Scaeva, consul A. U. C. 429, Liv. 10, 43; 10, 47: Cassius Scaeva, a partisan of Cœsar, Caes. B. C. 3, 53; Cic. Att. 13, 23, 3.

scaevĭtas, ātis, f. [scaevus, II.] (postclass.).

  1. I. Awkwardness, perverseness, unskilfulness, Gell. praef., § 20; 6, 2, 8: artium, Amm. 30, 4, 10.
  2. II. A mischance, misfortune, App. M. 3, p. 135, 27: fortunae, id. ib. 7, p. 189, 4: indignae rei, id. ib. 9, p. 221, 21.

Scaevŏla (in the Fast. Capit. also written Scaevŭla), ae, m. [prop. a dim. of 3. Scaeva, the Left-handed].

      1. 1. A surname of C. Mucius, who made his way into the camp of Porsenna to kill him, and, on being discovered, burned off his own right hand, Liv. 2, 12 sq.; Flor. 1, 10; Cic. Sest. 21, 48; Sil. 8, 386 al.
      2. 2. After his time, a frequent surname in the gens Mucia; so, P. Mucius Scaevola, consul A. U. C. 621, a friend of Tiberius Gracchus, Cic. Ac. 2, 5, 13 (cf. id. de Or. 2, 70, 285); id. Planc. 36, 88; id. Rep. 1, 19, 31.
      3. 3. Q. Mucius Scaevola, an augur, the most famous jurist of Cicero’s time, son-inlaw of C. Laelius, Cic. Lael. 1; id. Leg. 1, 4, 13; id. Rep. 1, 12, 18; id. Brut. 26, 101 sq.; 58, 212; Liv. Epit. 86; Vell. 2, 26; Flor. 3, 21.

† scaevus, a, um, adj. [kindred with Sanscr. savya, laevus, sinister, as the Gr. σκαιός and the Germ. schief, oblique], left, that is on the left, towards the left side (rare; most freq. in Appul.; syn. laevus, sinister).

  1. I. Lit.: itinera portarum, i. e. running from right to left, Vitr. 1, 5, 2: iter, Serv. Verg. A. 3, 351.
  2. II. Trop.
    1. A. Awkward, perverse, stupid, silly: scaevus profecto et caecus animi forem, si, etc., Gell. 12, 13, 4: mulier, App. M. 9, p. 223, 22: scaevus iste Romulus, Sall. H. Fragm. 1, 41, 5 Dietsch: fabula, Paul. Nol. Carm. 11, 44.
    2. B. Of fortune, unfavorable, untoward, unlucky: fortunam scaevam an saevam verius dixerim, App. M. 2, p. 120, 21: praesagium, id. ib. 10, p. 247; 7, p. 194, 39.
      Sup.: scaevissimum somnium, App. M. 4, p. 154, 23.
      Hence, subst.: scaeva, ae, f., a sign or token in the sky (observed by a Roman on his left; v. laevus), an omen: bonae scaevae causă … Ea dicta ab scaevā id est sinistră, quod quae sinistra sunt, bona auspicia existimantur … a Graeco est, quod hi sinistram vocant σκαιάν, Varr. L. L. 7, § 97 Müll.; cf. Fest. p. 325 ib.: bona scaeva est mihi, Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 39; so, bona, id. Stich. 5, 2, 24: canina scaeva, taken from the barking of a dog, id. Cas. 5, 4, 4.

† scēptrum, i (less correctly scaep-trum), n., = σκῆπτρον, a royal staff, a sceptre.

  1. I. Lit.: (rex Ptolemaeus) sedens cum purpurā et sceptro et illis insignibus regiis, Cic. Sest. 26, 57; Quint. 9, 3, 57; 11, 3, 158; Suet. Aug. 94: Augusti, id. Galb. 1; Verg. A. 7, 247: dextrā sceptrum gerebat, id. ib. 12, 206; Ov. M. 7, 103; 1, 178; 2, 847; 5, 422. Also borne by a king’s daughter, Verg. A. 1, 653 Heyne: exitiale, Stat. Th. 1, 34; of a triumphant general, Liv. 5, 41; Juv. 10, 43.
    Poet., in the plur., by way of amplification, of a single sceptre, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 21; cf.: celsā sedet Aeolus arce Sceptra tenens, Verg. A. 1, 57; and of Juno, Ov. M. 3, 265; 1, 596; 11, 560; Verg. A. 7, 173; 7, 252 al.
    1. B. Transf.
      1. * 1. A teacher’s rod (humorously): ferulae tristes, sceptra paedagogorum, Mart. 10, 62, 10.
      2. * 2. A name of the plant aspalathus, Plin. 12, 24, 52, § 110.
      3. 3. = membrum virile, Auct. Priap. 25.
  2. II. Trop., as a symbol of authority, also used by the poets, in the plur., for kingdom, rule, dominion, authority: en impero Argis, sceptra mihi liquit Pelops, Poët. ap. Quint. 9, 4, 140: tu mihi quodcumque hoc regni, tu sceptra Jovemque Concilias, Verg. A. 1, 78: sic nos in sceptra reponis? id. ib. 1, 253; 7, 422; 9, 9: pulsus solio sceptrisque paternis, id. ib. 10, 852: sceptra Asiae tenere, Ov. H. 16, 175: potiri perenni sceptro, id. M. 15, 585; id. F. 4, 198; id. M. 6, 677: Heliconiadum comites, quorum unus Homerus Sceptra potitus, etc., Lucr. 3, 1038.