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Headword:
*sa/mbukes
Adler number: sigma,74
Translated headword: sambucas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A type of siege engine, according to
Polybius.[1] There are instructions on how to build one in the [treatise]
On Description.[2]
*sa/mbukes: ge/nos mhxanh/matos poliorkhtikou=, w(/s fhsi *polu/bios. peri\ de\ th=s kataskeuh=s au)tou= ge/graptai e)n tw=| *peri\ e)kfra/sews.
Notes:
It bore the same name (or nickname) as a stringed musical instrument (
sigma 73), and was specifically designed for scaling a wall where the approach was by water.
[1] Mentioned throughout
Polybius 8.4.2-8.6.6 (on Marcellus' equipment at the siege of Syracuse, 212 BCE). See web address 1.
[2] By whom? (In fact
Polybius loc.cit. gives them.)
J.G. Landels, "Ship-shape and sambuca-fashion," Journal of Hellenic Studies 86 (1966) 69-77
M.L. West, Ancient Greek Music (Oxford 1992) 75-77
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; historiography; military affairs; meter and music; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@04:39:29.
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