Sciăthus
(
Σκίαθος). Now Skiatho; a small island in the Aegaean Sea,
north of Euboea and east of the Magnesian coast of Thessaly, with a town of the same name upon
it. Near it both the Greek and the Persian fleets were stationed at the time of the invasion
by Xerxes (
Herod.vii. 176; viii. 7).