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i6 the astragals,'^^ or figs, fed by its keeper, the ram returns astragals far different, i. e., a vigorous impact. The con- versation between the ram and its master may be repre- sented as follows : ' I will make you a present in pulse if things turn out well.' And the ram rebutted, ' I'll present you with my strongest impulse.' KOiov BiaKOVia. orav irpoardcracofjLev "jraiBia hiatcovrjaai, Xôfiev. Swcra) aoi el tvôi aaTpayaXov;, ^ iay(^dSa
: 17 Greeks of the term ram to an instrument, no part of which was originally like the animal, points conclusively to the butting as the true reason for the transfer. In English, the term, ram, aside from its military and naval applications, is used to designate several devices for battering, crushing, butting, or driving by impact. Among them may be mentioned the following as found in The Century Dictionary 1. The weight or monkey of a pile-driving machine. 2. The piston in the large cylinder of a hydraulic press. 3. A hooped spar used in ship-building for removing timbers by a jolting blow on the end. 4. In metal working, a steam-hammer used in forming a bloom. 5. An hydraulic lifting-machine. In no case is there a use of the term ram that is derived from the shape of the device. EQUUS, Horse; transf., A Battering iNSTRUMENT(f). The statement of Pliny®" that the horse as a battering instrument was invented at Troy, equum (qui nunc aries appellatur) in muralibus machinis, Epeum ad Troiam (in- venisse dicunt), is merely tradition, going back ultimately to the story of the Wooden Horse in the Odyssey Xinrov Koafiov aeurov Sovpareov, rbv 'Ettcw? hroiqaev trw ''A.Orjvri?^ The idea of the aries is due to a critical spirit such as Pausanias later manifested in describing the so-called Wooden Horse at Athens. Any person of common sense, as he implies, would know that the Trojans were not such fools as to do what the story ascribes to them, and that in reality Epeus's invention was a wall-breaking device : : itttto? he 6 ica\ov/i€vo^ hovpeio'i, aveuceirai ^âXxoO?. xal on fiev ro "jToirjua ro 'ETretou fii)j(^dv7}na rp/ e? hiaXvaiv tov reixovi, olSep ocTTK fii] traa-av hriêpei rots ^pv^lv evijdeiav Xeyerai Se e; re eKelvov TOV Xinrov a>? r&v '^Wrivtov evhov ej(pi rois apiarovi, . . .'^ "Plin. Nat. vii, 56. S7f (202). Cf. also Varro L. L. vii, 38. " Od. viii, 492-493. " Pans, i, 23, 10.
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