The Corinthian brigand — son of Pelops, or in some accounts of Poseidon — who held the Scironian rocks on the Megarian side of the Isthmus and forced passers-by to wash his feet before kicking them into the sea for a tortoise to devour, until Theseus cast him down by the same death.1
In the Megarian territory Sciron held the rocks called Scironian after him. He made travellers wash his feet and, in the act of washing, kicked them into the deep where a huge turtle preyed on them. Theseus seized him by the feet and threw him into the sea; from this the cliffs kept his name, and Pausanias says the Molurian dock beside them was accursed because Sciron dwelt there.2
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