Scoti
- 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.
proprie patriam esse Scotorum. Eadem habet Radulfus de Diceto ann. 1186. Brompton. de Hibernia :
Dicta est etiam aliquando Scotia, a Scotis eam
inhabitantibus, priusquam ad aliam Scotiam Britannicam devenerunt. Unde in Martyrologio
legitur, Tali die apud Scotiam Natalis S. Brigidæ. Idem Radulfus de Diceto, de
Hibernia : Hæc autem proprie
Nec miremini quod mihi via ista est ; etenim etsi Hybernensis sum,
etsi sum Scoticus, etc.Sinistrorsum habens Hiberniam Scotorum patriam, quæ
nunc Irland dicitur. Papias : Vir igitur quidam nomine Findan, genere Scottus , civis provinciæ
Laginensis. Mox : Prædicti ergo viri (Findani) sororem,
gentiles, qui Nordmann vocantur, plurima Scotiæ insulæ, quæ et Hibernia dicitur, loca
vastantes inter alias feminas adduxere captivam. Vita S. Fridolini ibid. pag.
384 : Sanctus Fridolinus ex Hibernia inferioris Scotiæ oriundus,
etc.
Miex voulsisse estre à Londre o les Escos.
Sed fortuitu aliquis zelo pietatis bono in peregrinos, sive notam
inconstantiæ eis infligens, sciscitabitur, unde est, et unde mos iste inolevit, quod de
finibus Hiberniæ præ cæteris gentibus limina sanctorum per universum orbem, diris sæpe
frigoribus, ac æstivis solibus peregrinantur, etc. Scotorum peregrinandi studium
sugillat Auctor versuum in fronte libri Bibliorum descriptorum apud Baluzium post Capitul.
Regum Franc. pag. 1572 :
Ante Brito stabilis fiet, vel musio muri
Pax bona, quam nomen desit honosque tuum.
Britonum enim voce Scotos designant : quanquam Britones Anglicos
peregrinationibus operam impendisse, et sanctos Apostolos crebrius visitasse constet, quod
tum primum cœpisse circ. ann. 700. scribit Stephanus Eddius in Vita S. Wilfridi cap. 3.
Vide Bollandum in Commentario prævio ad ejusdem S. Vitam n. 1. 2. 3. 4. etc. Petrum
Damian. lib. 1. Epist. 8. pag. 29. Gretzerum in Observ. ad Philippum Eystetensem cap. 19.
et quæ observavimus ad Joinvillam pag. 33.SCOTI The 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 Frith subsequently obtained the name of Scotland. (Comp. Zeuss, Die Deutschen u. die Nachbarstämme, p. 568; Gibbon, vol. 3. p. 268, and notes, ed. Smith.)
[T.H.D]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.