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Headword:
Sambukai
Adler number: sigma,73
Translated headword: sambukes; siege-engines
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] triangular musical instruments, in [= with] which they used to sing iambs. But some [call them] iambukai.[1]
Ibycus was the first to invent this iambuke. It is a kind of triangular kithara.[2]
"But they were coming to help at the fortification and for [or: against] those from the harbor, from those setting up the sambukes at the wall."[3]
Greek Original:Sambukai: organa mousika trigôna, en hois tous iambous êidon, hoi de iambukai. tautên tên sambukên prôtos Ibukos epheuren. esti de eidos kitharas trigônou. hoi de proseboêthoun epi to diateichisma kai pros tous apo tou limenos, apo tôn hupereidontôn epi to teichos tas sambukas.
Notes:
[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).
References:
T. Büttner-Wobst, ed., Polybii Historiae, vol. IV, (Leipzig 1904)
F.W. Walbank, A Historical Commentary on Polybius, vol. III, (Oxford 1979)
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 August 2010@23:22:23.
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