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Headword:
Kasion
oros
Adler number: kappa,454
Translated headword: Kasian mountain
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [It is located] near the [river] Euphrates.[1] Also [sc. attested] is Kasian Zeus; there Trajan dedicated silver jugs and an enormous gilded ox-horn, spoils of his victory over the Getae. And [there are] epigrams on the dedications composed by Hadrian:[2] "Trajan, descendant of Aeneas, offered these to Kasian Zeus: lord of mankind to lord of the immortals".
[Note] that[3] the Pelousians of Kasios by natural skill used to weave knots in order to attach one beam to another. And [a knot] equivalent to a Kasiote[?]; knots, [meaning] ties. In the Epigrams: "Zeus cut through the knots of her untouched golden maidenhood, after slipping into Danae's bronze-wrought chambers".[4]
Greek Original:Kasion oros: pros tôi Euphratêi. kai Kasios Zeus: entha Traianos anethêke kratêras argurous kai keras boos pammegethes kechrusômenon, akrothinia tês kata Getôn nikês. kai epigrammata en tois anathêmasin Adrianôi pepoiêmena: Zêni tad' Aineadês Kasiôi Traïanos agalma, koiranos anthrôpôn koiranôi athanatôn antheto. hoti hoi Kasioi Pêlousiôtai phusikêi technêi hammata eplekon dokous epi dokois sunaptontes. kai Kasiôtêi ison hammata, desma. en Epigrammasi: chruseos apsaustoio dietmagen hamma korias Zeus, diadus Danaas chalkelatous thalamous.
Notes:
The first and main paragraph here = Arrian,
Parthica fr.36.
[1] i.e. in
Syria. Mount Casius (Kasios), nowadays Jebel Aqra, overlooks the Mediterranean coast at the modern-day Syrian-Turkish border (Barrington Atlas map 68 grid A2). The Suda lexicographer is evidently confused about the location of this prominent mountain; the mouth of the Orontes River (
omicron 622) is indeed 20km to the north, but the Euphrates (
epsilon 3810) actually flows some 150km away in eastern
Syria. (The addendum to the entry, below, concerns its better-known homonym near Pelousion (
pi 1516) in Egypt; cf. Barrington Atlas map 70 grid C3).
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.332.1-3 (Hadrian). Hadrian composed the dedication at
Antioch (
alpha 2692, on the south bank of the Orontes; cf. OCD(4) s.v.
Antioch(1)) in 114 CE. Trajan delivered the dedication at Zeus's temple on Mount Kasios and fortified it with spoils from the earlier victories over the Getae (Dacians; cf.
delta 20 and OCD(4) s.v. Dacia); cf. Birley, p. 64. On this epigram, see Page (561-563) and its further extracts at
epsilon 1586,
kappa 2391,
lambda 609, and
omicron 955.
[3] From
alpha 1510: see note 2 there.
[4]
Greek Anthology 5.217.1-2 (Paul the Silentiary); cf.
alpha 1510 and
kappa 2075. See further excerpts from this epigram at
delta 57,
epsilon 919, and
rho 317.
References:
A.R. Birley, Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Abingdon: Routledge, 1997.
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 March 2008@11:14:25.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmeticule, status) on 18 March 2008@01:39:52.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 18 March 2008@04:32:25.
David Whitehead on 29 January 2013@03:25:29.
Ronald Allen (added map citations, bibliography, cross-references) on 20 March 2018@23:46:05.
Catharine Roth (tweak suggested by Ron Allen) on 21 March 2018@01:23:13.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 18 April 2019@01:43:25.
Ronald Allen (cosmetics n.1; added cross-references n.2 and added to bibliography) on 19 July 2023@10:19:04.
Ronald Allen (added n.4 and cross-references) on 19 July 2023@10:37:25.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.4) on 19 July 2023@12:16:42.
Catharine Roth (expanded note 3) on 21 July 2023@00:43:59.
William Hutton (tweaked translation) on 21 July 2023@04:29:01.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 21 July 2023@13:28:17.
Ronald Allen (tweak n.1; augmented n.2, corrected historical details) on 21 July 2023@23:41:44.
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