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Headword: *ka/sion o)/ros
Adler number: kappa,454
Translated headword: Kasian mountain
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[It is located] near the [river] Euphrates.[1] Also [sc. attested] is Kasian Zeus; there Trajan dedicated silver jugs and an enormous gilded ox-horn, spoils of his victory over the Getae. And [there are] epigrams on the dedications composed by Hadrian:[2] "Trajan, descendant of Aeneas, offered these to Kasian Zeus: lord of mankind to lord of the immortals".
[Note] that[3] the Pelousians of Kasios by natural skill used to weave knots in order to attach one beam to another. And [a knot] equivalent to a Kasiote[?]; knots, [meaning] ties. In the Epigrams: "Zeus cut through the knots of her untouched golden maidenhood, after slipping into Danae's bronze-wrought chambers".[4]
Greek Original:
*ka/sion o)/ros: pro\s tw=| *eu)fra/th|. kai\ *ka/sios *zeu/s: e)/nqa *traiano\s a)ne/qhke krath=ras a)rgurou=s kai\ ke/ras boo\s pamme/geqes kexruswme/non, a)kroqi/nia th=s kata\ *getw=n ni/khs. kai\ e)pigra/mmata e)n toi=s a)naqh/masin *)adrianw=| pepoihme/na: *zhni\ ta/d' *ai)nea/dhs *kasi/w| *trai+ano\s a)/galma, koi/ranos a)nqrw/pwn koira/nw| a)qana/twn a)/nqeto. o(/ti oi( *ka/sioi *phlousiw=tai fusikh=| te/xnh| a(/mmata e)/plekon dokou\s e)pi\ dokoi=s suna/ptontes. kai\ *kasiw/th| i)/son a(/mmata, desma/. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: xru/seos a)yau/stoio die/tmagen a(/mma kori/as *zeu/s, diadu\s *dana/as xalkela/tous qala/mous.
Notes:
The first and main paragraph here = Arrian, Parthica fr.36.
[1] i.e. in Syria. Mount Casius (Kasios), nowadays Jebel Aqra, overlooks the Mediterranean coast at the modern-day Syrian-Turkish border (Barrington Atlas map 68 grid A2). The Suda lexicographer is evidently confused about the location of this prominent mountain; the mouth of the Orontes River (omicron 622) is indeed 20km to the north, but the Euphrates (epsilon 3810) actually flows some 150km away in eastern Syria. (The addendum to the entry, below, concerns its better-known homonym near Pelousion (pi 1516) in Egypt; cf. Barrington Atlas map 70 grid C3).
[2] Greek Anthology 6.332.1-3 (Hadrian). Hadrian composed the dedication at Antioch (alpha 2692, on the south bank of the Orontes; cf. OCD(4) s.v. Antioch(1)) in 114 CE. Trajan delivered the dedication at Zeus's temple on Mount Kasios and fortified it with spoils from the earlier victories over the Getae (Dacians; cf. delta 20 and OCD(4) s.v. Dacia); cf. Birley, p. 64. On this epigram, see Page (561-563) and its further extracts at epsilon 1586, kappa 2391, lambda 609, and omicron 955.
[3] From alpha 1510: see note 2 there.
[4] Greek Anthology 5.217.1-2 (Paul the Silentiary); cf. alpha 1510 and kappa 2075. See further excerpts from this epigram at delta 57, epsilon 919, and rho 317.
References:
A.R. Birley, Hadrian: The Restless Emperor, Abingdon: Routledge, 1997.
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 March 2008@11:14:25.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule, status) on 18 March 2008@01:39:52.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 18 March 2008@04:32:25.
David Whitehead on 29 January 2013@03:25:29.
Ronald Allen (added map citations, bibliography, cross-references) on 20 March 2018@23:46:05.
Catharine Roth (tweak suggested by Ron Allen) on 21 March 2018@01:23:13.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 18 April 2019@01:43:25.
Ronald Allen (cosmetics n.1; added cross-references n.2 and added to bibliography) on 19 July 2023@10:19:04.
Ronald Allen (added n.4 and cross-references) on 19 July 2023@10:37:25.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.4) on 19 July 2023@12:16:42.
Catharine Roth (expanded note 3) on 21 July 2023@00:43:59.
William Hutton (tweaked translation) on 21 July 2023@04:29:01.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 21 July 2023@13:28:17.
Ronald Allen (tweak n.1; augmented n.2, corrected historical details) on 21 July 2023@23:41:44.

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