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Ἐγκαινίδες · gunwales (ε 85) · Suda

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Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

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ε81counted among
ε82caught in
ε83I pride myself [on]
ε84Consecration, Dedication, Encaenia
ε85gunwales
ε86bundled up
ε87Koisyra-ed out
ε88you have been rolled up
ε89I command, I enjoin

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Ἐγκαινίδες

gunwales

Translated by William Hutton28 Sep 2006Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 37 words

Translation

[Meaning] some part [sic] of a ship.¹
"Placing straight timbers just like thwarts and gunwales above cross-wise -- not all throughout but only at the ends and in the very middle -- tightening them in with bonds."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐγκαινίδες· μέρος τι τοῦ πλοίου. ξύλα ἰθυτενῆ καθά που ζυγὰ καὶ ἐγκαινίδας ὕπερθε κατὰ τὸ ἐγκάρσιον ἐνθέντες οὐ διὰ παντός, ἀλλὰ μόνον ἀμφὶ τὰ ἄκρα καὶ τὸ μεσαίτατον δεσμοῖς περισφίγξαντες.

Betacode

*)egkaini/des: me/ros ti tou= ploi/ou. cu/la i)qutenh= kaqa/ pou zuga\ kai\ e)gkaini/das u(/perqe kata\ to\ e)gka/rsion e)nqe/ntes ou) dia\ panto/s, a)lla\ mo/non a)mfi\ ta\ a)/kra kai\ to\ mesai/taton desmoi=s perisfi/gcantes.

Notes (2)

Same entry (though the quotation is shorter) in ps.-Zonaras.
1The headword is nominative plural of this noun, either quoted from somewhere (indeterminable) or else simply generated by the accusative plural which is purportedly part of the quotation given (though see next note). LSJ s.v. deem this a word of dubious sense (web address 1) but suggest nevertheless, very plausibly, that it may be a variant of e)phgkeni/des, which occurs in the dative plural in Homer, Odyssey 5.253; LSJ translate the word there as "long planks bolted to the upright ribs of the ship", and Casson (46 n.19, 151 n.49, 218 n.5, 392) more succinctly as "gunwales". ↩
2Agathias, Histories 5.21 -- which however has the form e)gkeni/das (glossed in Etymologicum Magnum 310.37). In 559 CE, the Kotrigur Huns build a flotilla of reinforced reed rafts (cf. kappa 2274) for an amphibious assault on the Thracian Chersonese's (the modern-day Gallipoli Peninsula, cf. chi 215) southwest coast; cf. alpha 1017, gamma 304, and Frendo (158).

References

Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995)
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from1 entry

ε1506Ἐν χρῷon skin, to skin[Meaning] into the skin, very close, so as even to touch. But in Callimachus [sc. there occurs the adverb] e)gkuti/, meaning e)ggu/s ["near"], on the skin, near the skin. "But you were shorn close, child." And Agathias…

Neighbouring entries

ε83ἘγκαυχῶμαιI pride myself [on]ε84ἘγκαίνιαConsecration, Dedication, Encaenia ε85Ἐγκαινίδεςgunwales ε86Ἐγκεκορδυλημένοςbundled up ε87ἘγκεκοισυρωμένηνKoisyra-ed out

Revision history5 revisions · last 18 Oct 2023

18 Oct 2023expanded n.2, added to bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword — Ronald Allen
4 Dec 2015added primary note and expanded others; cosmetics — David Whitehead
12 Mar 2015coding — Catharine Roth
24 Jul 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
28 Sep 2006augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
28 Sep 2006Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐγκαινίδες (Adler number epsilon 85), trans. William Hutton, 28 Sep 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/85

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