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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 4. (ed. Frank Moore)

phesus between the Persians and the Ionians, in which the latter were defeated with great slaughter, says: Those who escaped from this battle were scattered (Greek, eskedasthesan) [skedaddled] throughout the different cities. From the root skeda, of the word eskedasthesan, first aorist indicative passive of skedannumi, the word skedaddle is formed by simply adding the euphonious termination dle, and doubling the d, as required by the analogy of our language in such words. In many words of undoubted Greek extraction, much greater changes are made. Horace in his Art of Poetry, in reference to forming new words, says: “Et nova fictaque nuper habebunt verba, fidemsi, Graeco fonte cadunt, parce detorta.” “New words, and lately made, shall credit claim, If from a Grecian source they gently stream.” May not this word, then, so expressive at least as it falls upon the ear, become incorporated into our language and obtain the sanction of good usage? Ross County, Ohio.

Skedaddle.--This word, much used by correspondents in describing the hasty and disorderly flight of the rebels, may be easily traced to a Greek origin. The word skedannumi, of which the root is skeda, is used both by Thucydides and Herodotus to describe the dispersion of a routed army. (See Thucydides, IV., 56, 112, and Herodotus, V., 102.) The last-named historian, in the passage referred to, after giving an account of an engagement at Ephesus between the Persians and the Ionians, in wThucydides, IV., 56, 112, and Herodotus, V., 102.) The last-named historian, in the passage referred to, after giving an account of an engagement at Ephesus between the Persians and the Ionians, in which the latter were defeated with great slaughter, says: Those who escaped from this battle were scattered (Greek, eskedasthesan) [skedaddled] throughout the different cities. From the root skeda, of the word eskedasthesan, first aorist indicative passive of skedannumi, the word skedaddle is formed by simply adding the euphonious termination dle, and doubling the d, as required by the analogy of our language in such words. In many words of undoubted Greek extraction, much greater changes ar

Skedaddle.--This word, much used by correspondents in describing the hasty and disorderly flight of the rebels, may be easily traced to a Greek origin. The word skedannumi, of which the root is skeda, is used both by Thucydides and Herodotus to describe the dispersion of a routed army. (See Thucydides, IV., 56, 112, and Herodotus, V., 102.) The last-named historian, in the passage referred to, after giving an account of an engagement at Ephesus between the Persians and the Ionians, in Herodotus, V., 102.) The last-named historian, in the passage referred to, after giving an account of an engagement at Ephesus between the Persians and the Ionians, in which the latter were defeated with great slaughter, says: Those who escaped from this battle were scattered (Greek, eskedasthesan) [skedaddled] throughout the different cities. From the root skeda, of the word eskedasthesan, first aorist indicative passive of skedannumi, the word skedaddle is formed by simply adding the euphonious termination dle, and doubling the d, as required by the analogy of our language in such words. In many words of undoubted Greek extraction, much greater changes