Ἱστοδόκη
mast-crutch, mast-holder
Translated by Catharine Roth24 Apr 2006Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] that which receives the mast [sc. when it is let down].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἱστοδόκη· ἡ ὑποδεχομένη τὸν ἱστόν.
Betacode
*(istodo/kh: h( u(podexome/nh to\n i(sto/n.
Notes
- Likewise in other lexica, and cf. a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.434, where the headword occurs in the dative case (see web address 1).
On this item see Lionel Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 47 with n.30.