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Headword:
*)/akessa
Adler number: alpha,840
Translated headword: akessa, (?)access
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A Roman tactic consisting of cutting down trees to prepare a defense.
"The Romans constructed what in the Romans' language is called the akessa. For, cutting down trees and laying the trunks one upon another in a pile, they walled off, as far as was possible, the approach to the city on that side."[1]
Greek Original:*)/akessa: *(rwmai+ko/n ti mhxa/nhma e)k dendrotomi/ou pro\s e)rumno/thta metaskeuazo/menon. oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi cune/qesan th\n legome/nhn a)/kessan th=| *(rwmai/wn fwnh=|. dendrotomh/santes ga\r a)llepa/llhla stele/xh th=| cunqh/kh| katastore/santes a)petei/xisan w(s e)nh=n th\n e)nqe/nde porei/an th=s po/lews.
Notes:
The headword is attested only here and in the parallel (but shorter) entry in ps.-
Zonaras. It perhaps derives, through some historical incident, from the Sicilian city Akessa mentioned by
Photius,
Lexicon s.v.
o)/xos a)kessai=os (which accordingly would, or could, be "the city" mentioned here).
The word might be related to Latin
accessa 'access', as in
accessa maris 'access to the sea', used by
Servius to explain
inaccessa 'inaccessible' in his commentary on Vergil's
Aeneid (ad Aen. 1.246, 6.154, 8.195).
E.A.
Sophocles in his lexicon s.v. identifies
akessa with
agesta (see
alpha 203 and
epsilon 52); an
akessa is mentioned at
epsilon 3106.
[1] Quotation (from late historiography) unidentifiable.
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 4 March 2000@13:21:35.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplied headwords; augmented note; added keyword) on 27 May 2002@10:26:36.
Robert Dyer (expressed disagreement with interesting vetting suggestion of derivation from Latin and added references to Latin accessa in this sense; replaced 'approach' in headword with posited English relative 'access') on 30 May 2002@04:38:02.
Catharine Roth (added a note with another alternative) on 5 June 2002@17:35:50.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 5 June 2002@17:42:44.
Catharine Roth (modified note) on 14 August 2002@15:10:33.
David Whitehead (added what is now note 1; consequent cosmetics) on 10 June 2003@09:18:02.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 12 January 2008@01:10:53.
David Whitehead (additions to notes; more keywords; tweaks) on 24 January 2012@04:01:44.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 7 May 2015@18:26:46.
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