[1] cf. iota 29.
[2] cf. iota 80 (and kappa 1590 for the kithara).
[3] Polybius fr. 217 Büttner-Wobst (the text of which is not altogether certain); transmitted via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti. In the sense of siege-engine, the athematic form sa/mbuc also occurs: see sigma 74. Büttner-Wobst notes (542) that Schweighäuser attributed this fragment to Polybius. Meltzer (Otto Meltzer, German historian, 1846-1909) suggested to Büttner-Wobst (ibid.) that this fragment belongs together with Polybius fr. 145 (epsilon 1993) as pertaining to Scipio's siege and capture (147-146 BCE) of Carthage. Walbank generally agrees with this association (719), but cautions that this fragment's phrase "those from the harbor" becomes problematic in the proposed context; there were in fact no Roman ships on the harbor side of the mole by means of which Scipio had blockaded the city's waterfront (755).