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Posted By: GUEST,Phil d'Conch
22-Oct-22 - 11:12 PM
Thread Name: Maritime work song in general
Subject: RE: Maritime work song in general
Calomar, v.n. Mar. Zalomar, cantar un marinero con cierta montonia y compás, para que todos los que estan halando de algun cabo, izando alguna vela, etc., trabajen á una. V. ZALOMAR.”
[Diccionario Nacional, ó, Gran Diccionario Clásico de la Lengua Española, Vol.1, Dominguez, 1840]


A bit over one page of Latin and Greek on Aeschylus and the celeuma.
[Aischylou Persai: Aeschyli Persae, Blomfield ed., 1840]
Aeschylus (c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC)


“CELEUSMA, in antiquity, a naval shout serving as a signal for the mariners to ply their oars, or to cease from rowing. It was also also made use of to signify the joyful acclamation of vintagers, and the shouts of the conquerors over the vanquished.”
[The Scientific and Literary Treasury: A New and Popular Encyclopaedia of the Belles Lettres, Maunder, 1841]