Scioppius, Caspar, a Protestant renegade, born in the Palatinate; turned Catholic on a visit to Rome, and devoted his life to vilify his former co-religionists, and to invoke the Catholic powers to combine to their extermination; he was a man of learning, but of most infirm temper (1576‒1649).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Scilly Islands * Scipio, P. Cornelius, the Elder