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Headword:
Σαμβύκαι
Adler number: sigma,73
Translated headword: sambukes; siege-engines
Vetting Status: high
Translation: 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]
Σαμβύκαι: ὄργανα μουσικὰ τρίγωνα, ἐν οἷς τοὺς ἰάμβους ᾖδον, οἱ δὲ ἰαμβύκαι. ταύτην τὴν σαμβύκην πρῶτος Ἴβυκος ἐφεῦρεν. ἔστι δὲ εἶδος κιθάρας τριγώνου. οἱ δὲ προσεβοήθουν ἐπὶ τὸ διατείχισμα καὶ πρὸς τοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ λιμένος, ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπερειδόντων ἐπὶ τὸ τεῖχος τὰς σαμβύκας.
Notes:
[1] cf.
iota 29.
[2] cf.
iota 80 (and
kappa 1590 for the
kithara).
[3]
Polybius fr. 217 (the text of which is not altogether certain); transmitted via the excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus. In the sense of siege-engine, the athematic form
σάμβυξ also occurs: see
sigma 74.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 August 2010@23:22:23.
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