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Headword:
Sambukes
Adler number: sigma,74
Translated headword: sambucas
Vetting Status: low
Translation: A type of siege engine, according to
Polybios.[1] There are instructions on how to build one in the [treatise] On Description.[2]
Sambukes: genos mêchanêmatos poliorkêtikou, hôs phêsi Polubios. peri de tês kataskeuês autou gegraptai en tôi Peri ekphraseôs.
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] Polyb. 8.4.2ff, on Marcellus' equipment at the siege of Syracuse, 212 BCE.
[2] By whom? (In fact
Polybius loc.cit. goes on to give 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:
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Keywords: definition; historiography; military affairs; meter and music; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@04:39:29.
Vetted by:Elizabeth Vandiver (Added link; added italics; cosmetics; set status) on 21 September 2004@20:30:10.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 22 September 2004@03:52:16.
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