Ἐπίπλους

naval expedition

Translated by David Whitehead19 May 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

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Thucydides [writes]: "the Athenians [were] equipping a naval expedition of 150 ships for the war".

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπίπλους· Θουκυδίδης· ρνʹ νηῶν ἐπίπλουν ἐξαρτύοντες οἱ Ἀθηναῖοι πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον.

Betacode

*)epi/plous: *qoukudi/dhs: rn# nhw=n e)pi/ploun e)cartu/ontes oi( *)aqhnai=oi pro\s to\n po/lemon.

A naive paraphrase of Thucydides 2.17.4 (which also gets the number wrong: should be 100).
For another (but still naval) meaning of the headword see epsilon 2518.