Ἄφλαστον

poop

Translated by Jennifer Benedict4 Jun 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

7 words

[Meaning] the tip of the [ship's] stern.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄφλαστον· τὸ ἄκρον τῆς πρύμνης.

Betacode

*)/aflaston: to\ a)/kron th=s pru/mnhs.

From glosses on Herodotus 6.114, where the word occurs (in the plural). For other instances, beginning with Homer, Iliad 15.717, see LSJ s.v.; and see generally Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore & London 1995) 86 n.49 and passim.