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[German version] [1] of Rome 3rd bishop of Rome, 2nd cent. AD (?) Since  Irenaeus (Haer. 3,3,3) recorded as the third bishop of Rome in the list of Roman bishops although the Roman congregation was probably led by a college of presbyters and not a bishop alone in the late 1st cent. All information on C. comes from later centuries and documents the historical development of an image of C. but not the historical person. Dionysius of Corinth (Eus. HE, 4,23,11) considered C. the author of a letter of the Roman c…

[German version] (Σκειρωνίδες πέτραι/ Skeirōnídes pétrai, 'Scironic rocks'). Tall cliff on Mount Gerania above the Saronic Gulf (Hdt. 8,71; Pol. 16,16,4; Str. 9,1,4) west of Megara [2], still referred to as Kaki Skala ('dangerous climb') to the present day. The coastal pass from which - according to legend - Sciron pushed travellers into the sea (cf. Diod. Sic. 4,59,4) was notoriously dangerous. It was widened for traffic by Hadrianus (in AD 117-138) (Paus. 1,44,6). Meyer, Doris (Strasbourg) Bibliography Philippson/Kirsten 1, 949  F. Geyer, s. v. Skironische Felsen, RE 3 A, …

[German version] (Καρνίων; Karníōn). Tributary of the Gatheatas, modern Xerilas; the Gatheatas rises on the north-western slopes of the Taygetus and discharges into the Alpheius [1] south of Megale Polis (Paus. 8,34,5; Callim. H. 1,24). Plin. HN 4,20 mentions, possibly erroneously, an otherwise unknown Arcadian town of the same name. Olshausen, Eckart (Stuttgart) Meyer, Doris (Strasbourg) Bibliography Philippson/Kirsten, vol. 3, 288f.