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Headword:
*ka/sion
o)/ros
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:*ka/sion o)/ros: pro\s tw=| *eu)fra/th|. kai\ *ka/sios *zeu/s: e)/nqa *traiano\s a)ne/qhke krath=ras a)rgurou=s kai\ ke/ras boo\s pamme/geqes kexruswme/non, a)kroqi/nia th=s kata\ *getw=n ni/khs. kai\ e)pigra/mmata e)n toi=s a)naqh/masin *)adrianw=| pepoihme/na: *zhni\ ta/d' *ai)nea/dhs *kasi/w| *trai+ano\s a)/galma, koi/ranos a)nqrw/pwn koira/nw| a)qana/twn a)/nqeto. o(/ti oi( *ka/sioi *phlousiw=tai fusikh=| te/xnh| a(/mmata e)/plekon dokou\s e)pi\ dokoi=s suna/ptontes. kai\ *kasiw/th| i)/son a(/mmata, desma/. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: xru/seos a)yau/stoio die/tmagen a(/mma kori/as *zeu/s, diadu\s *dana/as xalkela/tous qala/mous.
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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