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Ἀμφιπρύμναις · double-sterned (α 1756) · Suda

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α1752of different fathers
α1753double-edged
α1754Amphipolis
α1755handmaid, handmaiden
α1756double-sterned
α1757aflame, flaming
α1758jagged, splintered
α1759sea-girt
α1760Amphis

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Ἀμφιπρύμναις

double-sterned

Translated by Jennifer Benedict10 Aug 2000Vetting: high10 revisions

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2 notes · 19 words

Translation

A type of ships. "He prepared to enter the Istros¹ again in those of his ships which were double-sterned".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀμφιπρύμναις· εἶδος πλοίων. ἔμπαλιν διελθεῖν παρεσκεύασε τὸν Ἴστρον ἐν ταῖς ἀμφιπρύμναις τῶν νεῶν.

Betacode

*)amfipru/mnais: ei)=dos ploi/wn. e)/mpalin dielqei=n pareskeu/ase to\n *)/istron e)n tai=s a)mfipru/mnais tw=n new=n.

Notes (2)

Same entry in ps.-Zonaras.
1The Greek name for the lower Danube; see OCD(4) p.749, s.v. Ister. ↩
2Part of Menander Protector fr. 21 Blockley (192-193), on Baian (cf. alpha 209 note) crossing the Danube in order to attack Slav villages. See the following lines in this fragment at alpha 209. According to LSJ s.v. (web address 1), "double-sterned" means "with rudder behind and before"; but even if for their "rudder" we understand "pair of steering-oars" (on which see generally e.g. L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 224-8), this is not how ancient ships were constructed. So the present "double-sterned" vessels were perhaps like the ones which, according to Polyaenus 3.11.14, the Athenian general Chabrias (chi 1) used in the mid C4 BCE: with a second pair of steering oars, for rough water.

References

R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

α209Ἄγειν καὶ φέρεινto plunder and to pillageMarauding and despoiling. But a)/gein [can mean], without distinction, both to carry away things, even from dead bodies, and to gather [them]. "When [Baian] crossed to the land opposite the stream, immediately he set…

Neighbouring entries

α1754ἈμφίπολιςAmphipolis α1755Ἀμφίπολοςhandmaid, handmaiden α1756Ἀμφιπρύμναιςdouble-sterned α1757Ἀμφίπυρονaflame, flaming α1758Ἀμφιρρῶγαςjagged, splintered

Revision history10 revisions · last 31 Jul 2024

31 Jul 2024expanded n.2; added bibliography and cross-reference — Ronald Allen
30 Jul 2014updated a ref — David Whitehead
21 Feb 2012cosmetics — David Whitehead
3 Jan 2012updated a reference — David Whitehead
12 Oct 2006modified and expanded n.2; added a keyword — David Whitehead
6 Jul 2003Revised — David Whitehead
6 Jul 2003Added note — Nicholas Fincher
28 Jul 2002cosmetics — David Whitehead
27 Jul 2002added link and keywords — Catharine Roth
3 Mar 2001modified headword and translation; added notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
10 Aug 2000Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀμφιπρύμναις (Adler number alpha 1756), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 10 Aug 2000. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/1756

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, David Whitehead, Nicholas Fincher, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗