Scardus
- a mountain in Illyria, now Sharradagh or Tchardagh, Liv. 43, 20.
Eschard, vel
Eschars, forte a Saxon. sceard, fragmen, quod avari res minimas tantum erogent ;
Scars, parum, et
Scarsa, parum vel parce dare : nisi legendum malis
Scarsus, et ab Ital.
Cumque illi
Episcopus, ut est utique Scardus, remandasset, non se illi amplius daturum aliquid, nisi
de Archiepiscopatu Mediolanensi, etc. MS. :
Li Roiz Ros volontiers fist,
Toute la terre en gage prist ;
Onques vers lui ne fu Escars,
Quer bien six mil et six chens mars
Et sexante six li livra,
Sour la terre qu'il li lessa.
Vide Scarzo.SCARDUS, SCODRUS, SCORDUS MONS (τὸ Σκάρδον ὄρος, Plb. 28.8; Ptol. 2.16. §), the desolate heights which are mentioned incidentally by Livy (Liv. 43.20, 44.31) as lying in the way from Stymbara to Scodra, and as giving rise to the Oriuns. They seem to have comprehended the great summits on either side of the Drilo, where its course is from E. to W. (Leake, Northern Greece vol. 3. p. 477.) In Kiepert's map (Europaïschen Turkei) Scardus (Schar-Dagh) extends from the Ljubatrin to Shalesh; over this there is a colf rom Kalkandele to Prisdren not less than 5000 feet above the level of the sea. According to the nomenclature of Grisebach, Scardus reaches from the Ljubatrin at its NE. extremity to the SW. and S. as far as the Klissoura of Devol; S. of that point Pindus commences in a continuation of the same axis.
[E.B.J]or Scordus Mons (τὸ Σκάρδον ὄρος). A range of lofty mountains, forming the boundary between Illyria and Dardania.