Catadupe

== English == === Etymology === The place name is from Latin Catadūpa, from Ancient Greek Κατάδουποι (Katádoupoi), "commonly derived from καταδουπέω (katadoupéō), as if downroars" (see κατα- (kata-, “down”), δουπέω (doupéō, “to thud”)). (The people are from Latin Catadūpi.) === Proper noun === Catadupe (obsolete) A city on the Nile river, a few miles above Aga-nagara; the site of the first cataract of the Nile. An inhabitant of this city. ==== 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 ===