Scylax
(
Σκύλαξ).
1.
A native of Caryanda, in Caria, who was sent by Darius Hystaspis on a voyage of discovery
down the Indus. Setting out from the city of Caspatyrus and the Pactyican district, Scylax
reached the sea, and then sailed west through the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea, performing the
whole voyage in thirty months (
Herod.iv. 44). There is still
extant a
Periplus bearing the name of Scylax, but which could not have been
written by the subject either of this or of the following article. The work is edited by C.
Müller in the
Geographi Graeci Minores (1861); and by
Fabricius
(1878). See Antichan,
Les Grands Voyages de
Découvertes des Anciens (Paris, 1890).
2.
Of Halicarnassus, a friend of Panaetius, distinguished for his knowledge of the stars, and
for his political influence in his own State (
Div. ii. 42).