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Headword:
*kekragmo/n
Adler number: kappa,1259
Translated headword: scream
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Attic-speakers [call] a shout [a scream, kekragmo/s].[1]
"By immediately hanging a pig from the tower [the Romans] escaped the danger from the elephant. For when the pig had been suspended, it emitted a certain ill-omened cry, at which the elephant reared up in distress."[2]
Greek Original:*kekragmo/n: th\n boh\n *)attikoi/. xoi=ron au)ti/ka e)k tou= pu/rgou e)pikrema/santes to\n ki/ndunon to\n e)k tou= e)le/fantos die/fugon. kekragmo\n ga/r tina skaio\n o( xoi=ros h)rthme/nos h)fi/ei: w(=|per o( e)le/fas a)xqo/menos a)nexai/tizen.
Notes:
The headword noun is in the accusative case, presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Similarly in
Photius,
Lexicon kappa536 Theodoridis (but without 'Attic-speakers': for that cf.
Moeris).
[2] Quotation not identified by Adler but identifiable via the TLG as
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 8.14.37 (though he uses the form
kraugmo/s; cf. web address 1).
Aelian,
De natura animalium 1.38, reports that the Romans used a similar defense in their war with Pyrrhus (reference supplied by Nick Nicholas).
Procopius notes that the dangling pig tactic was used successfully by the Romans in their defense of
Edessa (cf.
epsilon 207) in 544 CE (cf. Kaldellis (494-495) and
epsilon 52), but that they did not need to resort to the stratagem again during the 551 defense of Archaiopolis (in Lazike/
Kolchis (cf.
kappa 1979), present-day western Georgia; Barrington Atlas map 87 grid H2), when one of the Persian war elephants panicked, scattering the attackers.
Reference:
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 October 2008@00:48:02.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented and modified notes; more keywords) on 20 October 2008@03:03:48.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 3 November 2008@00:50:51.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 14 February 2013@04:31:19.
David Whitehead (coding) on 30 April 2016@09:08:12.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-references, and link) on 5 March 2024@12:05:16.
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