Catadupe

catadupe English Etymology The place name is from en la Catadūpa, from en grc Κατάδουποι, "commonly derived from grc καταδουπέω, as if downroars" Middle Liddell (see grc κατα- down, grc δουπέω to thud).en 2021-05-20 Georgia L. Irby Conceptions of the Watery World in Greco-Roman Antiquity Bloomsbury Publishing 9781350136465 75 The Greek toponym Κατάδουποι (katadoupoi : “thunderers”) evokes the deep din of the rushing water. In Cicero, following Herodotus, the rushing water at Catadupa is so loud that the inhabitants are deaf (Republic 6.11). (The people are from la Catadūpi.) Proper noun en obsolete A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagaraen probably needs modernization; the site of the first cataract of the Nile. An inhabitant of this city. en The Miseries Of Inforced Marriage 1780 1607 189 Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus, because the noiſe was ſo familiar unto them. en The Leeds Correspondent 1819 The inhabitants of Atures and Maypures, whatever the missionaries may have asserted in their works, are not more struck with deafness by the noise of the great cataracts, than the Catadupes of the Nile. Usage notes This obsolete name is of note primarily because of stories repeated over the years that the inhabitants of the area either went deaf from the noise of the cataracts (as Cicero and Herodotus and the 1819 Leeds Correspondent above claim) or tuned it out (as the 1607/1780 quote above claims). References