Προεξειρεσία
outrigger
Translated by David Whitehead14 Mar 2010Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] place of the vessel, in which they do the rowing.
"They contrived tholepin-holders on each of the sides and what amounted to outriggers".1
"They contrived tholepin-holders on each of the sides and what amounted to outriggers".1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προεξειρεσία· τοῦ πλοίου τόπος, ἐν ᾧ ἐρέττουσι. κωπωτῆρας δὲ ἐφ' ἑκατέραις πλευραῖς καὶ οἷον προεξειρεσίας τινὰς ἐμηχανήσαντο.
Betacode
*proeceiresi/a: tou= ploi/ou to/pos, e)n w(=| e)re/ttousi. kwpwth=ras de\ e)f' e(kate/rais pleurai=s kai\ oi(=on proeceiresi/as tina\s e)mhxanh/santo.
Notes (1)
- 1A loose approximation of Agathias, Histories 5.21.8, which (inter alia) actually contains not the present headword
proeceiresi/as , otherwise unattested, butpareceiresi/as (for which see already pi 558, pi 559). For 'thole-pin holders' see L. Casson, Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 84 n.33, 87 n.51. On the reed boats built by the Kotrigur Huns for an amphibious attack on the Thracian Chersonese (the modern-day Gallipoli Peninsula, cf. chi 215) in 559 CE, see also alpha 1017, epsilon 85, epsilon 1506, epsilon 2572, epsilon 3167, kappa 2274, and Frendo (158). ↩
References
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
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