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Headword:
Akrotomos
Adler number: alpha,1021
Translated headword: cut-off, sharp, abrupt
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] hard, lofty.[1]
Or a very sharp stone, the one cutting.
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "akrotomos rock", [meaning] the hard and uncuttable [sort].[2]
But [sc. also attested is neuter] "akrotomon mountain", [meaning] the mighty one, in [the book of] Job.[3]
"In Mount Aurasios[4] there was an akrotomos rock rising up in the middle of cliffs; this, naturally, the men of old made into a short tower and [so] built a kind of strong and impregnable refuge with the nature of the terrain assisting them".[5]
Greek Original:Akrotomos: sklêros, hupsêlos. ê oxutatos lithos, ho temnôn. kai Akrotomos petra, hê sklêra kai atmêtos. Akrotomon de oros, to dunaton, para tôi Iôb. en Aurasiôi tôi orei petra akrotomos ên krêmnôn meson anechousa: ho dê purgon hoi palai anthrôpoi brachun komidêi poiêsamenoi kataphugên tina ischuran kai amêchanon tês tou chôriou phuseôs sphisi xullambanousês edeimanto.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in
Photius and elsewhere.
[2] See n. 5 below.
[3]
Job 40.15
LXX.
[4] In northeastern
Algeria, the Aurès Mountains (Latin: Aurasius Mons) are the eastern continuation of the Saharan Atlas; cf. Barrington Atlas map 34 grid D2-D3.
[5]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 4.20.23 (web address 1); cf. Kaldellis (235).
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; religion; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 March 2000@16:50:45.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 26 January 2001@08:00:08.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 6 June 2002@06:20:47.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 1 February 2012@07:56:35.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 16 May 2015@00:50:57.
David Whitehead on 23 May 2015@03:34:09.
David Whitehead on 15 August 2015@07:57:51.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.4, added map reference; added link n.5, added bibliography) on 13 December 2023@11:53:59.
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