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Headword:
*ti/tanon
Adler number: tau,678
Translated headword: gypsum, lime
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] white, or chalky, dust.[1]
Burned stone, which formerly they [used to call] ti/tanos, but now they call asbestos.[2]
Greek Original:*ti/tanon: leuko/n, h)\ gu/yon, koni/an. li/qos diakekaume/nh, h(\n pa/lai me\n ti/tanon, nuni\ de\ a)/sbeston kalou=si.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in the
Synagoge and
Photius'
Lexicon; similarly elsewhere. The headword is accusative singular of
tau 679, evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2] Derived from
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 6.27.21 (web address 1); cf.
tau 679. During their siege of
Auximum (Auximus, modern-day Osimo, Italy) in 539 CE, Roman soldiers fail to destroy a cistern--the city's main water source--and instead fill it with animal carcasses, toxic plant materials, and
ti/tanos; cf. Kaldellis (374).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 January 2014@01:05:41.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 16 January 2014@03:17:51.
David Whitehead (coding) on 29 May 2016@03:47:08.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, keywords, and link) on 7 April 2024@11:54:12.
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