Ἐπικατέσεισεν
shook down on
Translated by Catharine Roth2 Mar 2006Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] threw down on.1 Josephus: "when Antiochus was besieging Jerusalem, as Eleazar the son of Matthias saw that the tallest of the elephants was ornamented, he suspected that Antiochus was [riding] on it. Cutting through the great mass of the enemy and striking the beast under the belly he shook the elephant down on himself, accomplishing nothing more than to have aimed at great [deeds], and being crushed he perished."2