SCYROS, (anc. geog.) an island in the Egean sea, opposite to the middle of Eubœa to the east, with a cognominal town, (Ptolemy). The country of king Lycomedes; where Achilles, in the habit of a girl, was educated and lay concealed, to prevent going to the siege of Troy; who debauched Diodamia, the king's daughter, and by her had Pyrrhus, (Ovid.) Famous also for the death and place of exile of Theseus, king of Athens, (Valerius Maximus). Anciently inhabited by the Dolopes, a race of intolerable robbers, expelled by Timon the Athenian, (Thucydides, Plutarch). Now Sciro. E. Long. 25. o. N. Lat. 38. 15.