Scoti

Scōti (Scotti), ōrum, m.,

• the Scots, a people in the northern part of Britain, in the mod. Scotland, Amm.27, 8, 5; 26, 4, 5; Hier. in Jovin. 2, 7.—In sing.: Scotus, collect., Claud. B. Get. 417; id. IV. Cons. Hon. 33; id. Laud. Stil. 2, 251.—Hence,
• • A Scō-tĭa, ae, f., the land of the Scots, = Hibernia, Isid. 14, 6, 6.—
  • B Scōtĭcus (Scott-), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Scotland, Scottish, Scotch: tela, Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 254.

Scōti, ōrum, m., eine Völkerschaft im südlichen Teile von Schottland (Caledonia) und in Irland (Hibernia), die Skoten, Schotten, Amm. 20, 1, 1. Oros. 1, 2, 81 (Zang. Scotti). Isid. orig. 14, 6, 6. Claud. IV. cons. Hon. 33. – Sing. Scōtus kollekt., Claud. bell. Get. 417; laud. Stil. 2, 251. Pacat. pan. 5, 2. – Dav. a) Scōtia, ae. f., das Land der Skoten, Skotien, Schottland, Isid. orig. 14, 6, 6 (dort = Hibernia). – b) Scōticus, a, um, skotisch, schottisch, tela, Claud. laud. Stil. 2, 254.

Scōtī, ōrum, m. , Scots, ¶ 1 habitants de la Calédonie [Écossais] : Amm. 20, 1 ¶ 2 hab. de lʼHibernie [Irlandais] : Claud. Get. 417.

SCOTI

SCOTIThe Scoti were the ancient inhabitants of Hibernia, as appears from notices in some of the Latin writers. (Claudian, de IV. Cons. Honor. 33, de Laud. Stil. 2.251; Oros. 1.2.) For several centuries Ireland was considered as the land of the Scoti, and the name of Scotia was equivalent to that of Hibernia. (Isid. Orig. 14.6; Beda, 1.1, 2.4; Geogr. Rav. 1.3, 5.32; Alfred the Great, ap. Oros. p. 30, &c.) We have no accounts respecting the subdivisions of the Scoti; but perhaps they are to be sought in the names of the Irish counties, as Munster, Leinster, Ulster, Connaught. Ammianus mentions the Scoti, in conjunction with the Attacotti, as committing formidable devastations (27.8.4). According to St. Jerome ( adv. Jovin. 5.2. 201, ed. Mart.) they had their wives in common; a custom which Dio Cassius represents as also prevailing among the kindred race in Caledonia (76.12). At a later period the names of Scotia and Scoti vanish entirely from Ireland, and become the appellations of the neighbouring Caledonia and its inhabitants. This was effected through a migration of the Scoti into Caledonia, who settled to the N. of the Clyde;but at what time this happened, cannot be ascertained. Beda (i. I) states that it took place under a leader called Reuda. The new settlement waged war with the surrounding Picts, and even against the Anglo-Saxons, but at first with little success. (Id. 1.24, 4.36.) Ultimately, however, in the year 839, under king Keneth, they succeeded in subduing the Picts (Fordun, Scot. Hist. ap. Gale, 1.659, seq.); and the whole country N. of Solway Frithsubsequently obtained the name of Scotland. (Comp. Zeuss, Die Deutschen u. die Nachbarstämme, p. 568; Gibbon, vol. 3. p. 268, and notes, ed. Smith.)

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Scoti

A people mentioned, together with the Picti, by the later Roman writers as one of the chief tribes of the ancient Caledonians (Oros. i. 2; Amm. Marc. xxvii. 8, 4; Isid. Orig. xiv. 6). They dwelt in the south of Scotland and in Ireland; and from them the former country has derived its name. See Innes, Ancient Inhabitants of Scotland (1729); Skene, Celtic Scotland (last ed. 1886); and Caledonia.