Ὤνευον
they were hauling up with windlasses
Translated by John White6 Jun 2000Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
In Thucydides, [meaning] they were moving and rotating;1 for a windlass2 of the mill [is] the thing that is moved; and windlasses [are] devices of such a kind.
Thucydides [writes]: "they tied the stakes and were hauling them up with windlasses". That is, they were using windlasses.
A windlass is [sc. in this instance] a device fixed to the tops of the light boats, from which they would toss nooses around the stakes and easily drag them up from the sea-bed. For the device is so very strong that a heavy drag-net can be dragged by two men without difficulty. The fishermen who drag them, brushing along the ground, call the device a distaff. A lot of effort is required to drag it up, even when a forked beam has been put in front of it; for the resistance of the things dragged opposes it.
Thucydides [writes]: "they tied the stakes and were hauling them up with windlasses". That is, they were using windlasses.
A windlass is [sc. in this instance] a device fixed to the tops of the light boats, from which they would toss nooses around the stakes and easily drag them up from the sea-bed. For the device is so very strong that a heavy drag-net can be dragged by two men without difficulty. The fishermen who drag them, brushing along the ground, call the device a distaff. A lot of effort is required to drag it up, even when a forked beam has been put in front of it; for the resistance of the things dragged opposes it.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὤνευον· παρὰ Θουκυδίδῃ ἐκίνουν καὶ περιῆγον· ὄνος γὰρ τοῦ μύλωνος τὸ κινούμενον· καὶ αἱ τοιαῦται μηχαναὶ ὄνοι. Θουκυδίδης· ὤνευον ἀναδούμενοι τοὺς σταυρούς. τουτέστιν ὄνοις ἐχρῶντο. ἔστι δὲ ὄνος μηχανὴ ἐπ' ἄκρων τῶν ἀκατίων πηγνυμένη, ἀφ' ἧς περιβάλλοντες βρόχοις τοὺς σταυροὺς ῥᾳδίως ἐκ τοῦ βυθοῦ ἀνέσπων. ἔστι γὰρ ἡ μηχανὴ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον βιαιοτάτη, ὥστε καὶ σαγήνην βαρεῖαν ὑπὸ δύο ἀνδρῶν ἀπόνως ἕλκεσθαι. καλοῦσι δὲ τὴν μηχανὴν οἱ τοὺς χαμαὶ λείχοντας ἕλκοντες ἁλιεῖς ἠλακάτην. ἐρρωμενεστέρα δὲ πρὸς τὴν ἀνέλκυσιν καθίσταται, ὅταν καὶ δίκρουν ξύλον πρὸ αὐτῆς τεθείη· ἐπ' εὐθείας γὰρ ἡ ἀντίσπασις τῶν ἀνελκομένων γίνεται.
Betacode
*)/wneuon: para\ *qoukudi/dh| e)ki/noun kai\ perih=gon: o)/nos ga\r tou= mu/lwnos to\ kinou/menon: kai\ ai( toiau=tai mhxanai\ o)/noi. *qoukudi/dhs: w)/neuon a)nadou/menoi tou\s staurou/s. toute/stin o)/nois e)xrw=nto. e)/sti de\ o)/nos mhxanh\ e)p' a)/krwn tw=n a)kati/wn phgnume/nh, a)f' h(=s periba/llontes bro/xois tou\s staurou\s r(a|di/ws e)k tou= buqou= a)ne/spwn. e)/sti ga\r h( mhxanh\ e)pi\ tosou=ton biaiota/th, w(/ste kai\ sagh/nhn barei=an u(po\ du/o a)ndrw=n a)po/nws e(/lkesqai. kalou=si de\ th\n mhxanh\n oi( tou\s xamai\ lei/xontas e(/lkontes a(liei=s h)laka/thn. e)rrwmeneste/ra de\ pro\s th\n a)ne/lkusin kaqi/statai, o(/tan kai\ di/kroun cu/lon pro\ au)th=s teqei/h: e)p' eu)qei/as ga\r h( a)nti/spasis tw=n a)nelkome/nwn gi/netai.
Notes (2)
- 1Thucydides 7.25.6, quoted later in the entry; part of the fighting in the Great Harbour at Syracuse, 413 BCE. Most of the present entry derives from the scholia on this passage ↩
- 2An onos (a noun cognate with the verb in question here); cf. omicron 380. ↩
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Revision history3 revisions · last 8 Aug 2011
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- expanded notes; added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified headword and translation; added notes and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — John White