Named Entity Results, Thucydides

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