Scopas

, an architect and sculptor of Ephesus, for some time employed in making the mausoleum which Artemisia raised to her husband, and which was reckoned one of the seven wonders of the world. One of his statues of Venus was among the antiquities with which Rome was adorned. Scopas lived about 450 years before Christ. Pausanias , bk. 1 , ch. 43 , . — Horace , bk. 4 , ode 8.— Vitruvius , bk. 9 , ch. 9 .— Pliny , bk. 34 , ch. 8 ; bk. 36 , ch. 5 .――An Ætolian who raised some forces to a ist Ptolemy Epiphanes king of Egypt, against his enemies Antiochus and his allies. He afterwards conspired against the Egyptian monarch, and was put to death, B.C. 196.――An amba ador to the court of the emperor Domitian.