Κομιστικὰ πλοῖα

transport vessels

Translated by David Whitehead3 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 21 words

This was the name [for ships] in which the tyrants¹ used to transport the spoils they had taken, as Hyperides shows.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κομιστικὰ πλοῖα· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο, ἐν οἷς ἐκόμιζον οἱ τύραννοι τὰ ληφθέντα λάφυρα, ὡς Ὑπερίδης δηλοῖ.

Betacode

*komistika\ ploi=a: ou(/tws e)kalei=to, e)n oi(=s e)ko/mizon oi( tu/rannoi ta\ lhfqe/nta la/fura, w(s *(uperi/dhs dhloi=.

From Harpokration s.v.
1So the transmitted text; but Harpok. -- with the standard emendation by August Boeckh -- shows that it should be "the Tyrrhenians", that is, the Etruscans. ↩
2Hyperides fr. 166 Jensen (not Adler's '195', later corrected by her). ↩

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